Arcadia Sky High Rye

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: Specialty Grain
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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22 ounce bottle in pint glass. Golden with lasting head and lace. Fresh hoppy sweet citrus aroma. Mildly sweet spicy with nicely understated pear melon fruit. Spicy rye hoppy finish. NIcely complex. Delicious. OKay, so why is this a "specialty grain" beer, but Hop Rod Rye is a DIPA? Anyhow this beer is a delicious IPA with an added rye spicy complexity. Excellent.

(Bottle) Hazy, light orangish color, with almost a pinkish tinge. This beer grabbed me with the first sip...intensely fruity hops, with a very strong and clear apricot aroma (It really struck me more as apricot and less as peach). This one so strongly resembles apricot, I’d say it’s even more apricot-like than Magic Hat #9. I do notice the piney and lemony quality to the hops too, but these take a back burner to the fruitiness. I also really notice the rye malt, which emerges after the hops hit you. But the malt aroma is not particularly deep, and it vanishes soon after it emerges, leaving a very clean, but very bitter aftertaste. Alcohol is exceptionally well-masked. Remarkably light given how powerful it is. I was really impressed by this, as rye beers can tend to have a heavy quality about them, and this beer would strike me as light even if I were comparing it to other, similar barley-malt beers. Carbonation is a bit sharp and prickly, and I like this; it meshes well with the strong bitterness and light quality of this brew. I imagine this beer would not be as enjoyable if it were allowed to go flat. I am not familiar with this brewery, but this beer immediately got my attention and I’m eager to try more. It’s rare these days that I try a new beer from a bottle that impresses me as much as this one did.

I love this RPA. One of my favorite session ales it has a fantastic complexity of spicy, clean rye and grassy, piney, citrus hops. Shines.

UPDATED: MAY 2, 2011 Draft. Aroma has notes of spicy citrus, pine resin and rye malts. Murky orange with an average white head that left great lace. Flavor is medium sweet and bitter. Palate is medium bodied with average carbonation. Overall a wonderful brew that was very easy to drink. Went well with spicy wings and was easily the best beer of the night. Will not hesitate to order this one again. Very solid beer. Well done Arcadia!

Hazy, orange-gold with good, creamy off-white head / Floral nose of dry hops, weed, and rye / Medium body, good malt and hop balance, with good finish / Restrained yet appealing flavors of dry hops, orange, grapefruit, flowers, caramel, and spicy rye / Very good.

22oz bomber. Pours a clear glowing golden with a fluffy medium white frothy head with nice lacing. Aroma of fresh citrus hops and lightly caramelized grains slightly spicy rye. Flavor is excellent and quite clean, great citrus hops, grapes, light grapefruit, super juicy, pine, lovely soft maltiness, lightly bready, always love the spicy depth rye adds. Fantastic mouth feel, medium bodied, medium/light feel, very soft larger carbonation with a quick sizzle. Delicious and super quaffable. Fantastic balance.

On tap at Perilla Restaurant. Sweet aroma. Sticky head that laced the glass. Plenty of rich rye flavor and a pleasant, bready sweetness - I enjoyed this a lot!

12 oz bottle. Cloudy orange body, thick, puffy buff head. Spicy nose with bitter pine and citrus brightness. Citrus and pine taste, backed by toasty malts. Dense flavor profile and crisp, biting mouthfeel. Average aftertaste for an IPA with a slight metallic finish.

Had this one bottled, thanks Jim! I don’t have much experience with rye ales but this one had a very nice hoppy spiciness that was greatly enhanced by the addition of herby rye, had a crisp, dry finish. This is a keeper, and I would be interested to try others rye ales.

Bottled, 355ml from Bellingers Garage, Grove, Oxon. Gold with white head. I hadn’t held out much hope for this, so I drank it as a pre Xmas eve warmer upper, but wow, if i have another beer like this tonight I will be very lucky. Sharp, bitter lemon notes with a corriander herby note. Light, bitter and lovely. Probably the best Rye beer I have had.