Jester King Wytchmaker Rye IPA

Brewed by Jester King Craft Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Austin, Texas USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle: Pours a hazy copper with a big three finger off-white head that has nice lacing. Aroma is fruity with hints of lemon citrus and pine. Hoppy flavor has a mild spicy bite with hints of rye and fruit leaving a mild dry finish. Body is light and has a lot of carbonation (sounded like a soda when opening the bottle). Easy drinking and flavorful.

Clear gold colored pour. White head with just a bit of lacing. Hoppy aroma. Bitter. Brett flavor up in there. Citrus and sweet malt. Very nice. Not much of a rye presence, but still not bad.

Pours hazy orangish gold with a good sized sturdy off-white head. The aroma has lots of fruitiness, toasty malt, funky yeast, spicy hops, hints of pine and grapefruit. Medium body that is fairly rough with lots of flowing semi-soft carbonation. Initial taste makes me think this has been around for a while, but there is no bottled dating to know. Starts with fairly sweetish malt that has a bit of syrup aspect to it. There is some woody / cardboard that makes me think its now oxidized. The finish shows the farmhouse yeast, fruitiness, abrasive earth, grapefruit rind and spice. This just strikes me as okay. Hopefully I get to try this fresh at some point and see if this is supposed to taste different than what this bottle is.

Bottle from Høkeren in Ravnsborgsgade, Copenhagen. Pours a hazy dark orange body with a huge foamy off-white head. Nose is caramel, grains, bubble gum, rye, hints of freshly cut grass and honey melon. Taste is rye, grainy caramel malts, hints of pine, toffee and mellow red berries. Full body, medium carbonation. Great and subtle beer, while still being full of flavor. This is really, really good.

Bomber. Pours medium gold with a large white head that leaves some lacing. Aroma is lemon, tropical fruit, doughy, bready yeastiness, some pine, some spice. Flavor is great: some bretty, slightly funky yeasty goodness, some tropical fruit, citrus combined with spicy rye, black pepper, and a nice, dry, moderately bitter IPA hoppiness. Delish. Medium mouthfeel.

LOVED IT. Hoppy saisons are the cats meow. Really flavorful and creamy. Nice grassy citrus hops and an earthy doughy saison yeast that rounds everything out. Mouthfeel is creamy and perfectly carbonated.

Wow this is cool, very rye and hoppy, some tart and Brett very very well done

Bottle at Ipanema Bar, Thessaloniki: Golden colour with medium white head. Aroma of flowers, citrus, rose. Taste, almost the same with more rose. Medium body, medium carbonation, light bitter aftertaste Overall, a very very good beer.

750 ml bottle (says 7.3% ABV) purchased on a whim & recommendation from store clerk. Pours a cloudy orange/copper with medium white head and rings of lacing. Aroma has orange rind, piney resin, la bit of spice (cardamam?), iight toffee malts and a bit of breadiness. Taste is quite bitter, with with sweet malts coming out in the finish. Body is medium with a lively mouthfeel - due to carbonation. A very good and unusual IPA worth trying at least once.

Spicy, fresh, tropical fruit aroma with a slight barnyard character. Almost clear copper under a lacy, thick, off-white cover. Phenolic and horseblanket flavour with spicy, citrusy hops, pineapple, and other tropical fruit. Light body, high carbonation, bitter finish.