Holden Caulfield Rye Extra Pale Ale
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- From:
- Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Rye Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 2.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 09, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 24, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
20oz pint at the Century Park location. It's been a while since I read The Catcher in the Rye, but I'll try a beer named in its honour all the same.
This beer appears a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and weakly foamy off-white head, which leaves a few reaching tendrils of wintertime tree trunk lace around the glass as things gradually sink away.
It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, a lesser spicy rye graininess, subtle house yeast, mild generic citrus notes, and some decent leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty pale and saucy rye malt, warm orange and white grapefruit rind, genial yeast, black peppercorns, and more sassy grassy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its mostly glad handing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe a bit of peppery astringency competing with a burgeoning creaminess for my current attention. It finishes off-dry, the big Brewsters malt not about to give up the ghost anytime soon, even in the face of an increasingly zingy and pepper-forward rye essence.
Overall, this is one of the better seasonal offerings to come out of the Cowtown operation of late - the rye really comes through, it's like I'm putting back the whisky variant (sans the big ABV, of course), all hopped-up. Speaking of which, what is it that makes this an 'extra' pale ale? Not the standard 5 points of booze, obviously, so it must just be the rye, yeah?
Aug 24, 2016This beer appears a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and weakly foamy off-white head, which leaves a few reaching tendrils of wintertime tree trunk lace around the glass as things gradually sink away.
It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, a lesser spicy rye graininess, subtle house yeast, mild generic citrus notes, and some decent leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty pale and saucy rye malt, warm orange and white grapefruit rind, genial yeast, black peppercorns, and more sassy grassy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its mostly glad handing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe a bit of peppery astringency competing with a burgeoning creaminess for my current attention. It finishes off-dry, the big Brewsters malt not about to give up the ghost anytime soon, even in the face of an increasingly zingy and pepper-forward rye essence.
Overall, this is one of the better seasonal offerings to come out of the Cowtown operation of late - the rye really comes through, it's like I'm putting back the whisky variant (sans the big ABV, of course), all hopped-up. Speaking of which, what is it that makes this an 'extra' pale ale? Not the standard 5 points of booze, obviously, so it must just be the rye, yeah?
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