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Bottle. Pours a dark amber/brownish color with a medium sized beige head. Aroma is pepper, yeast, caramel, grains. Flavor is caramel, pepper, yeast, raisins. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation, finsihed sweet up front then spicy at the back. Warming from the pepper. Decent brew, paired pretty well with the burger I was eating.

Bottled. Poured deep amber with a short-lived cap of off-white head. The aroma picked up sweeter caramel and toffee notes that supported a blend of black pepper and darker fruits.. some candied notes on the back. The flavor had fruity sweetness supporting bunches of black pepper and other interesting assorted spices that I couldn’t place.. other sweetness came with warmth, including cereal, brown sugar, and caramel.. finished with a candy-like sweetness and lots of black pepper. Medium-bodied and well-balanced on the palate with a lengthy peppery spicage on the finish. Very well done.

Bottle. Wow! This beer is as advertised- peppery and filled with rye. What sounds disgusting actually is very tasty, both to the nose and to the tongue. Nice bits of pepper clear the sinus and the palate. Not much else to say about it. I’d sprinkle this on eggs if I could. Fantastic.

bottle, dark brown color with small head, aroma of spicy chocolate, flavor is fruity spice with a peppery finish, really nice with a joya de nicaragua

Dark coppery colored with little yellow head. Aroma has some rhubarb with obvious pepper, slight chocolate also present. Medium bodied. Flavor starts with same vegetables and berries, aftertaste is strongly peppery, and it lasts, I can tell. Well, this pepper is new thing for me, interesting still.

11.5 ounce bottle. Interesting aroma of black pepper, with sweet fruit, rye, and flower like scents. Visual is dark amber body with a thin creamy and lasting head. This is a really unique beer. I’ve only had a few other pepper beers, but this seems nothing like them. I’m glad I purchased.

My favorite rye beer is Terrapin. I must say, this smells nothing like Terrapin Rye. You can actually smell the pepper. It is fairly pungent, which is a good twist to the rye beer. The pepper smell is not so much your regular black pepper that you would use fora meal. The pepper almost has a sweet smell to it. There is oddly a nice balance of sweet malt aroma with the pepper. A nice interesting twist on aroma here. This beer is almost opaque, but really I would consider it a translucent dark caramel brown. The beer has a nice thin head that sits on top of the beer for a few minutes. Wow, that pepper surely adds a peppery taste. It is a little powerful on the pepper. My mind is so focused on that flavor I am really not able to taste the bitter, or malty part of the beer. I get pepper all over the front of my mouth, and in the back of my throat that I cannot taste the other flavors. I don’t like that part of the beer. The beer is very smooth, and has a decent texture. I am not a fan of this one simply because of the damn pepper taste. I like spice/herb/vegetable beers for their use of spices, but this one just puts the pepper as number one. The other flavors aren’t given the chance to come through. Interesting beer, but I don’t want to pay 4$ to drink pepper water.

Bottled: Pours out deep red/amber color with minimal head. You can smell the spices but not overpowering. It being my first rye beer, I wasn’t sure what to expect along the lines of taste. To me, it was an interesting beer. The taste faded slowly from the palate, to almost nothing then the peppercorns became noticeable. It left a light tingling of the peppercorns in the back of the tongue.