Rye IPA
Schlafly Beer - The Tap Room

 

Poured a golden yellow body with good head and lace sheath down glass. Touch of spice in aroma that has citric and floral hops. Thicker beer with a malty sweetness and rye spiciness that balances with a citric and floral hoppy sharpness and a crisp, sweet finish.

On tap. A hazy golden orange pour with a quickly receding head. Decent lacing. Smell is mainly rye spice and some grapefruit. The taste is in line, with some orange citrus sweetness. The feel is medium, carbonation medium. Overall a decent ipa, though could use some more hop semblance .

 

 

 

A: The beer is clear yellow in color and has a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that quickly settled down, leaving a thin head covering the surface and lots of lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Light to moderate aromas of passionfruit are present in the nose.
T: The taste has spicy flavors of rye along with underlying notes of passionfruit. There is a light to moderate amount of bitterness.
M: It feels nearly medium-bodied and crisp on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I really enjoyed the contrasting flavors of spicy and tropical fruit hops in the taste of this beer.

Serving type: can

 

As the overcast of haze, smoothie and brut types of IPA skirts the beerscape, the classically brewers of Schlafly defy all the trends and look back to a yesteryear of brewing for inspiration for an updated taste on an old classic.

Their Rye IPA pours with a coppery bronze amber with a frothy ecru froth. Its hoppy scent rounds the nose with citrus and pine but also includes a husky grain scent that's redolent with granola. Sweet to start, the beer's caramel flavors link up with a light savory toasted malt and a light honey influence.

Across the middle palate, the sharpness of rye makes a mark earlier in taste than do hops, adding that husken grit of the challenged rye grain slightly ahead of the citrus splash of orange and pink grapefruit in a strikingly American pale ale kind of way. Then the beer sets itself apart with a dive into a quickly drying taste that favors hop bitterness. Fresh pine, peppercorn and a piquant spice of hay allows the hops and rye to coexist in on the late palate.

Medium bodied but trending dry, the spicy ale quickly looses its sweetness in favor of a crisp, dry but off-clean finish. A long and bitter linger is a throwback to IPA of twenty years ago to show that the old stuff still works very well. Its a highly drinkable ale that's have hop heads coming back for more.