What's your experience with rye beers?

Bittersweet Lenny's RIPA, Hop Rod Rye

 

I love rye in my beers, I love rye to a point in my whiskey, and too much in whiskey I really don’t like. Like Old Grand Dad 114, too much rye for me, and the Wild Turkey mash bill is right on point. I’d like to see more rye used in beers, it definitely changes things up and it adds spicy notes.

 

People have written in these forums that they can taste the rye in a beer that uses that grain, but I never get that. I do get a peppery/spicy taste, but that's it.

 

I miss that beer so much

 

You picked a dandy for your first rye experience. CC Reclaimed is a first rate rye beer!

 

that peppery spicy note is the rye. At least it's the common denominator I see in them.

I personally love rye beers and am drinking a new top favorite beer of all time right now that is a rye-wine aged in bourbon barrels (nothing special from against the grain). It's amazing. I wish I'd bought a case and I hope it exists next time I'm out by the brewery.

 

Like many others here, I love good rye beers and wish there were more available. That one the OP referred to I'll definitely need to seek out, it sounds great.

 

Rye pale ales are among my favorites. I brew a mean one myself. The spiciness of rye is not for everyone's taste.

 

The rye beer I can earliest recall having was Barley Forge’s The Patsy; coconut rye stout and was among some of the first beer I regularly sought. Unfortunately, the brewery is now set to close at the end of October, gotta snag one more run before it’s gone

 

I’m not much of a descriptor on beers, but the rye simply to my taste roughs a beer up a bit. In beer it’s really a nuance, you know it’s a bit different when you drink it but it’s certainly not a hammer. In Bourbons and whiskies to me it’s a hammer, it’s a bit too rough for my tastes. The difference in a Wild Turkey mash bill and one from Old Granddad are polar opposites, and we’re only talking increasing the rye percentages to a substantial amount. I’ve never had a Rye Bourbon, and I’m quite sure 51% rye or more wouldn’t work for me. I’m drinking some One Claw this weekend and it’s so much better imo than any other hoppy beer they produce, a bit spicy, a bit fruity, nicely hoppy, reasonable abv, only 5.5. Yep, it’s sounds like a perfectly balanced beer. It’s hard to say one beer is better than another, but I’m trying to think of a PA that I think is better, and I can’t. In comparison I really don’t like Westbrook’s IPA, not at all.

 

That there aren’t enough.

 

I'm an extract with grains brewer. I don't mash my grains, I steep them. Doing so gives me no trouble at all. I can't speak for all grain brewers though.

 

I have had a few

Bear republic hop rod rye
Leo vs urses inferos
Sierra nevada ruthless rye
Two brothers cane and able

Nice spice, roasty, citrus, herbal.good stuff.

 

Wet blanket alert...I find many/most rye beers and/or rye barrel aged beers I’ve had overly drying on the tongue, and not to my personal liking...totally a mouthfeel thing. CWs latest rye barrel aged stout is a great example...tastes great! Tongue felt like I had been sucking on a popsicle stick...

Cheers!