On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, dry-hopped rye pale ale brings illustrious yellow grapefruit bittering to resinous hop pungency. Tangy tangerine, orange and pineapple fruiting helps secure soft rye-breaded white wheat backbone.
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MAGIC HAT TICKET TO RYE
Astray amber-hazed 2013 ‘limited engagement’ needs deeper dry rye-pumpernickel penetration and richer dry-spiced caramel malting to advance on nearly forsaken piney fruited IPA tendencies.
KUKA IMPERIAL RYE IPA
Better in this rye setting than Kuka’s IPA/Pale Ale versions due to more radical flavor profile. Radish-like maca root influence offers mild cacao nibs tease to honeyed raisin rye breading and chocolate-soured butternut-pecan-chestnut-walnut conflux. Stylish grapefruit, orange and pineapple fruiting gains exposure over time. Pastry-like sugaring, port wine tannins and peat-y earthiness infiltrate busy backend of inconspicuously alcoholic (9.4% ABV) medium body.
PORT JEFF DEAD RYE’S RYES-N-BOK
Chameleonic German-styled hybrid develops protrusely over time, crossing Maibock sour fruiting with rye-dried Roggenbier tendencies and melanoidin Weizenbock sugaring. Chewy caraway-seeded rye graining and wispy fennel powdering provide fine base. Pineapple-glazed ham sweetness picks up mellow cotton-candied banana-clove-cardamom spicing to secure affable Bavarian wheat beer stamina. Fig-dried pucker deepens oncoming saison-like citric souring.
CRICKET HILL SMALL BATCH SMOKED RYE
Surefire smoke-infused rye beer does fine impression of German-styled rauchbier with its beechwood-logged hickory-charred cedar burn and salami-seared cured meat streak. Beneath, black-breaded rye toasting and dark chocolate malts contrast mild black peppered hop bittering. Serve to Aecht Schlenkerla and Kaiserdom Rauchbier lovers.
BRONX RYE PALE ALE
On tap at Birdsall House, dry medium-bodied pale ale utilizes spiced rye malts to envelop its mild grapefruit bittering and sweet pineapple-peah-apple-pear fruiting. Parched bark acridity and light floral niche reinforce citric-forward alliance. Serve to India Pale Ale imbibers as an approachable moderation.
SARANAC RYE I.P.A.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, easygoing rye-malted IPA lags behind brighter insouciance of richer, fruitier, woodier stylistic competitors such as Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye and Harpoon Rich & Dan’s Rye IPA. Hasty rye-breaded black toasting meanders to grassy-hopped citric respite. Lemon-limed apple skin remnants haunt sooty orange-grapefruit tartness as well as vegetal asparagus-celery smidge.
KNEE DEEP RYEDENTITY CRISIS
Shallow, golden-cleared, hybridized rye saison retains moderate-bodied soothe. Traditional saison-based sour fruiting drifts into dry earthen resin creasing mild rye breading. Lemony mandarin orange, tangerine and apple tartness fades off as soft-focus peppery hop bittering disguises unassuming 8% alcohol volume. A sessionable summery retreat for lighter thirsts.
NEWPORT STORM RYAN RYE PALE ALE
Unconvincing rye-malted dry body with hop-toasted caraway seeding flattens out by oblivious fruit-spiced finish, garnishing orange-spiced grapefruit peel bittering and negligible cherry tone to earthen wood backbone.
GOOSE ISLAND MILD WINTER
Modest winter warmer plies tobacco-roasted cigar leafing to resinous mocha dryness and nut-grained pumpernickel rye toasting. At the midst, peat-mossy honeyed molasses sweetness abuts wispy dry-hopped bittering (reminiscent of tamer Extra Special Bitters). Just don’t expect typical seasonal spicing to dot its mild blend. 2012 tapped version at Manhattan’s Jack Doyle’s Pub upped the cinnamon-toasted gingerbread-nutmeg seasonality, gained a creamier vanilla-chocolate stead and dabbed black cherry tartness onto the spruce-tipped evergreen recess.
NEW HOLLAND CHARKOOTA RYE
Terrific ‘Smoked Doppelbock Lager’ brings velvety smooth hickory-charred molasses malting, cedar-chipped bourbon whiskey sweetness and surging black chocolate creaminess to cherry wood-smoked vigor. Tertiary black cherry, red grape, pecan and almond illusions secure mossy bottom. Bacon-greased maple sapping enriches sturdy mocha backend. Advertised rye flavoring drowned out by rich mocha density to no ill effect.
BOLERO SNORT THERE’S NO RYEING IN BASEBULL
Utilizing a wordy crybaby appellation stolen from Tom Hanks’ famous League Of Their Own character, this here’s a summery soft-toned steppingstone for lighter thirsts. Sessionable mainstreamer with rye-spiced nicety, subtle orange-dried fig acridity, and earthen bottom tagged “a casual slammer for boating.”