Knight Rye-Der
Omen Brewing

Dark beer, pours from the can with a thick head. Tastes with a hint of citrus and lots of rye, with a faint whiskey feel that makes for a sharper, acidic first taste that takes getting used to. Overall a distinguishing beer taste.

 

1L howler from the affable folks at the tap-room in southside Edmonton.

This beer pours a murky, dark orange-brick brown colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent approaching ice shelf pattern lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a lesser spicy rye thing, subtle bruised pome fruity notes, an ethereal wet ashiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some wet rye bread, more overripe apples and pears, some mild estery yeast, and a further well-understated leafy, musty, and herbal old-school hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a subtle airy creaminess arising as soon as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the gently roasted mixed malt presiding.

Overall - this is a fairly well-presented version of the style from a local startup that prides itself on creating the 'darker side of beer', and this is certainly that (not that their APA I had earlier wasn't quite good). Lots of flavour, and a pleasant sign of more things to come, methinks.