New Glarus Unplugged Smoked Rye Ale

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Smoked
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Jesus h christ!! Smoked meat, malts in the aroma. Taste is smoked, sticky sweet. Balanced beyond everything and masked out of this world! Stunning stufd

Smoke and rye, two dominating flavors, but equally distributed in this beer. The pepper of rye and the meaty, peaty flavor of the smoked malts make this an aggressive beer, but not overly so. The brown sugar and sweet spicing picks up the rye nicely.

Back to an old ratting. Smoke and booze on the nose, but SMOKE and metal on the tongue. Way to much smoke for me seems unbalanced. No thank you.

Reddish amber color with a short lived tan head. Great big smokey head with some bacon and a little plastic. Great big smokey beer with lots of bacon, campfire, some band aid and plastic. The alcohol comes out as it warms. Lots of brown sugar sweetness. I like smoked beers and this is definitely a smoked beer.

12oz bottle thanks to GhostFace. Cheers, Neal! Pours a clear yellow-orange with a white head. Nose is big campfire aroma with a bit of caramel and some mild sweetness behind the huge smoke presence. This is one to ponder as the smoke lightens as the beer warms. Light in body and big in flavors. Interesting...

Bottle. Pours a hazy ruby with small white head. Meaty aroma with notes of tireyard and cinnamon. Flavor is slightly salty, notes of speck, campfire, and caramel. Moderately heavy oak and meaty smokiness in the finish. Nice malt backbone. I like!

Bottle at a tasting at Paul’s. Pours a lightly hazed amber ruby with a thin white head. Big rubbery smoke on the nose, a touch of sweet malt. Malt, toast, roast, a bit of sweetness and a touch of salinity. Medium bodied, salty and smokey, lots of rubbery malt. Malt, roast and a touch of smoke. Finishes with more smoke and a bit more sweetness.

Bottle. Brown pour with tan head. Very smoky aroma with wood and light meat tones. Flavor is mostly smoke, less wood or meat tones.

Bottle from Three Cellars. Pours brownish brown with faint yellowish tints. Faint off-white head. Aroma has whiskey, earthy peat and caramel. Taste is of slightly salty smokey meat, sweet caramel and some fruit. Very interesting. Finishes smokey and dry, with a tangy-ness that lingers for a while. Interesting take on a smoked, but without the type of fullness of body I would prefer, plus I did not ever get any rye in the aroma or flavor ... and I like rye.

Translucent mahogany with a thin beige head. Med-full body with med-full carbonation.

Aroma: strong but dank meaty smoke, fruity esters.

Taste: woody smoke, smoked meat, dark bready malt, yeast esters, and some alcohol.