Epic Rio’s Rompin’ Rye Beer

Brewed by Epic Brewing Co. (Utah)
Style: Specialty Grain
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Serve in Shaker, Tumbler

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2 June 2012, bottle. Nose is definitely rye bread. Light brown and hazy. Thin/med body and a bit fizzy. Sweet rye malt. Nice. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

(22oz bottle, courtesy of thirdeye11) Pours a clear orange body with a medium cream head. Aroma of toasted rye, banana, honey, and earth. Flavor of toasted rye, caramel, light citrus, and honey.

bottle: Copper pour with a thin off white head. aroma is bready, slightly grainy, light caramel sweetness. Light lemony citrus. Flavour is bready malt, semi-sweet, some woody and light lemony hop, some peppery spice towards the finish. Very drinkable.

22 oz. bottle. Aroma features chocolate chip cookie and Tootsie Roll scents from the malts. Lemon rind. Fresh and yeasty smell. I’m not getting much in the way of spices that I expect from a rye beer. Pours a hazy, effervescent, medium brown with a moderate to large amount of long-lasting beige head. Produces good lacing, and has a good look to it overall. Milk chocolate and cookie flavors. It tastes like a straight-forward, but high quality, brown ale, except with a welcome dry hops – and perhaps rye spice – kick in the finish. Dry aftertaste. Light to medium body. Lively, frothy, and silky in what amounts to a nice, though not special, palate. You know, it’s a pretty enjoyable brew, thought it’s not exactly my kind of beer stylistically, and it clashed with my expectations in appearance, aroma, and flavor. The point is, it wasn’t what I was expecting, but, hey, I liked it.

Draft. Pours a hazy amber color with a medium sized off white head. The aroma has caramel malt, mild spicy rye, crackers with light earthy notes. The flavor has much of the same; caramel malts, mild rye notes, toasted crackers, and hints of earthy hops. OK, but...

Bomber release number one. Pours a very cloudy bronze color with a medium white head. A sweet rye and grainy nose, the yeasts definitively add some hefe-like banana and fruit here. A nice earthy flavor; spicy rye, bready for sure, lemon and perhaps some ginger. Pretty nice and very drinkable.

Hazy amber pour, off white head. Aroma of caramel, citrus hops, bready notes. Nice caramel malt up front, citrus hops, wheat crackers, doughy notes.

Bottle at Paul’s. Pours dark amber with off white head. Nose/taste of caramel, rye, malt, resin and lemon peel. Medium body.

Aroma is mostly bready and spicy rye notes, very pleasant. Pours a very murky amber, white head which dissipates to a ring. Spicy rye, lemon, faint hops, bready malts, and yeast make up most of the flavor. Medium-full body and medium carbonation.

Bortle@home. One finger foam. Brown clear. Caramalty notes. Fine dry clean taste. If you know it a feeling of black Rye bread. Good with Danish smorebrod.