Oak Aged Rye IPA
Cedar City Brewing Co.

On tap at the brewery, into a pint glass.

Pours a clear amberish gold with good foam and great lacing. Aroma is spicy pine and a little earthy berry, with some mint and a lot of herbal brightness, alongside some very mellow malts and a little vanilla. Flavor is similar. The oak isn't the richness you'd expect on something like a stout but is a little more tannic and leathery, tempering the very bright vegetal hop flavors and adding depth to the malts which show up on the back end. It has a pretty intense tea flavor and some good dry mint which finishes bitter with some nuttiness from the oak and malts. Pretty dry and quite snappy with some weird flavors. Feel is good, appropriately dense with good carbonation and what feels like a higher body with the oak. No weird booziness or strange things going on here.

Overall, a funky beer but a fun one from a small local brewer. Pretty delicious and interesting, I wouldn't have thought oak and rye would work with a hoppy beer but Cedar City IPAs always trend old school with more malt and herbal hops, so it works out well.