Horseheads Rye PA

Brewed by Horseheads Brewing, Inc.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Horseheads, New York USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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My bottle [660ml] shared with HogTownHarry, garthicus, jerc, mabel & GregClow. Pours a deep golden-amber with a small semi-lasting off-white head. Aroma has a hint of rye, some light hops, citrus fruit and bready notes -- I like it. Flavour of malt, rye bread and light floral hops. Average to medium bodied. Good stuff.

Pours an orange amber with a moderate white head. Nose is prominent at first but fades rather quickly. There’s some apricot and raisin, big on the dried fruit spectrum, almost fruit cake-ish. A very long bitter finish dominates with carbonation that borders on the fizzy. A very flavorful brew. It definitely earns points for having some different qualities.

[2693-20100113] 1pt6floz bottle. Sweet banana puree and apple-like grainy fruit aroma. Clear, amber orange body with a medium-lasting foamy off-white head. Medium body is rough. Nice solid brew, drinkable, repeatable.
(c/o blankboy, w/ him, garthicus, GregClow, HogTownHarry, jerc)

A golden amber ale with a thin off white head. In aroma, butterscotch, and berry esters. In mouth, a grainey malt base with astringent rye german hops, medium bodied, a tad unpleasant. Tasted at J. Ryan’s Syracuse, Feb. 6 2010.

16 oz mug at J. Ryan’s (Syracuse). 06FE10.

App.: Clear copper with a small, off-white head. Aroma: Quite fruity, mainly berries and some dark dried fruits, brown sugar, strawberries, some earthy/woodsy hops, butterscotch (boo!). Palate: Medium body and medium-low carbonation. Flav.: Lots of brown sugar, figs, raisins, strawberries, some esters, some pine/resin hops, rye bread crust, so fruity with butterscotch undertones; off-dry with forceful bitterness.

Well done...almost.

22oz - Clear gold with small bubbles and a thin tan head. Wood and cabbage nose. Mild creamy caramel on palate, rye spiciness arrived only after the glass warmed to nearly room temperature. Sort of a train wreck. I like Ryes, but this one missed.

2009-01-13. Orangey body with a nice creamy off-white head. Pleasant orange citrus in the aroma with some mild grainy malt. 7+ Flavour is similar, orange-tangerine citrus, pleasant modest bitterness throughout. Modest malt undercurrent. Average plus palate. 3+ Pleasant, quite quaffable. Bottle shared by Blankboy

Thanks to Blankboy. Appearance: Nice copper colour with a small white head. Aroma: A little spice and citrus rind, malt and a little rye. Flavour: Sharp rye, like a German rye bread, malt, some nice hoppiness in there too with a long bitter finish. Nice.

Bottle ( 650ml ). Shared by blankboy with me, garthicus, gregclow, jerc and mabel. Slightly hazy bright orange-amber, smallish mottled frothy/creamy beige head. Leafy, slightly sweet aroma, floral and somehow reminiscent of crushed garden vegetable leaves. Taste is nice - dry, pungent, not as sweet, only a hint of rye cereal .... still a weird vegetable pungency in the finish. Light body, strong carbonation, light malt body but a fairly long floral bitter finish. Odd, not bad.

Bottle. Pours amber with an off white head. Floral hop aroma with some light sweetness. The flavor has bready sweet malt, spicy rye notes, and crisp floral hops. Well balanced and very drinkable.