Founders Black Rye
Burnt brown body under a thin cocoa colored foamy cap. Keeps a flimsy skimming and loosely thin set collaring. Thin displaced sheets of lace stick close to the top. Beautiful aroma of bountifully fluffed espresso roast and roasted rye. Dry fudge, charred chocolate, and green hop bitterness of spruce all make favorable encounters within. Its not huge by any means, just solidly present and fresh. Love it. Taste is wildly decadent with dark bittering tones of char, chocolate, espresso, dry spruce pine, spicey toasted rye bread, vanilla, and dry fudge. Great roasted edge the whole way through as well as the all encompassing chocolate undertone that sets the stage for the charred stuff and bitterness. A near perfect blend of darkly roasted flavors, moderate bitterness, and subtle dryness. Clean and roastified medium quick body. Low and even set carbonation and slick even while the roast and bitterness take its hold. Killer stuff! Loved it! Goes down with an irrefutable slooshing down the gullet. Akin to New Glarus Black Wheat without the banana - just add the rye. Thanks to trbeer for the tremendous heeping stash of samples!