Fitgers Highfalls Ryebock

Brewed by Fitgers Brewhouse
Style: Specialty Grain
Duluth, Minnesota USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Pours a clear ruby brown, topped by a thin layer of foam that recedes to a film and a thick ring. The ring provides good lacing. Sweet fruity and malty aroma. The flavor starts out sweet as well, full of caramel, mild prune, maple, vanilla, and a little chocolate. Then the rye flavor kicks in to dry it down some, finishing with an earthy and woody hop bitterness. Nice transition of flavors. More than medium body, almost moderate carbonation, and quite smooth.

Growler. Dark red color with no head. Earthy aroma with a little bit of cherry. The rye just peaks over the malt and grainy base. Straightforward and drinkable.

Pour of clear amber and sienna with a fringe of bright gold and almost no head. Light grain aroma. Flavor is a gentle sugar and sweet almond. Moves into a silky heavy malt. Light lemon. A hint of hazlenut. Rye? But, I never taste the rye. Here, there isn’t much character, nothing to impress. Drinkable, which is fine, but pretty much straight plain malt flavor. Toothy. Finishes with a very cloying banana.