Forged Rye Amber Ale
Town Square Brewing Co.

Poured from a howler purchased at Collective here in Cowtown.

Appearance - Pours a rusty copper reddish brown with three fingers of off-white head.

Smell - earthy, leafy, weedy, and spicy hops, rye malts, pumpernickel, caramel, bready and biscuity notes, and earthy yeast.

Taste - earthy, leafy, weedy, and spicy hops upfront. The brew then goes into the bold notes pumpernickel along side the rye malts. The bready and biscuity notes as well as the earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky from the hops and malts with the pumpernickel and rye malts lingering.

Overall - A pleasant rye beer that delivers on the rye and pumpernickel notes. This one is like having a slice of pumpernickel bread. It's complex but at the same time quite quaffable and flavourful.

Very nice amber ale with rye undertones. Will buy again!

Color is brown with nice amber highlights, faintly hazy with a finger of off-white, fine bubbled head that has a good amount of retention and recedes into a clingy skim on the surface of the beer. Light aroma, faintly smoky with a nutty rye note to it. Pretty smoky malt forward, solidly sweet and full bodied with a earthy, nutty flavor with some mild biscuit notes to it and a nice, faintly spicy rye flavor on the back-end. Mildly bitter finish with a leafy, herbal noble hop bite with some faint bitter hints of char to it and leaves a lingering nutty, slightly smoky aftertaste.

Well balanced and easy drinking with nice hops to body balance somewhat reminescent of an sessional style with darker malt characteristics and less hop edge. Very worthy swill from E Town!

 

1L howler from the new brewpub on their second day of offering their own suds to the public. Very affable people there, I gotta say.

This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent crooked webbed lace around the glass as it slowly and lazily recedes.

It smells of bready and crackery pale malt, an equally heady rye cereal graininess, a hint of earthy yeast, some mild bruised pome fruitiness, and fairly restrained leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, rye whisky sans the aggressive heat, a muddled apple, pear, and generic citrus fruitiness, plain earthy yeast, and more musty, herbal, and dry grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-assuring frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with just a suggestion of spicy rye exacting a minor toll here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt and loitering hops making a day of it.

Overall, this is a very well made version of the blended style, with the guest rye not taking no for an answer when it comes to top billing. Complex, and pretty tasty, which is always a good sign for a first contact with a nascent brewing concern. Keep it up, fellow southsiders (it's a thing)!