Taps Roggen

Brewed by Taps Fish House and Brewery
Style: Specialty Grain
Brea, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

4 feb 2012, tap at Taps. Light but brown, clear, some bubbles. A tally reminds me of banoffee pie; banana comes out a bit more than toffee with some biscuits in the background. Thin/med body and a bit fizzy. Taste is a bit disappointing. Faint banoffee pie ale. Meh. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

On tap at the brewpub. Pours with a hazed golden body with a white head and good lacing. Aroma is estery, banana, spicy, earthy, clove and black pepper. Flavors of phenols, clove, spicy, light diacetyl and a touch of DMS (light but there). Vanilla and rye. Creamy bubbles but decently dry.

A: The pour is an incredibly turbid orange color with a small white head that leaves nice lacing on the glass. S: Quite a bit of spice on the nose, much like a hefeweizen with some rye in it. A decent amount of wheat and a lot of banana esters to go with it. T: The flavor is pretty sweet with a lot of banana, and the same spiciness that the nose offered. The rye is there, but there’s a fair amount of clove flavor, too. M: Seems to be maybe a touch watery on the palate, but the carbonation is decent enough. D: Not bad, I guess, especially by Taps standards. I don’t know how "true to style" it is, but tasty enough.

On tap at Taps in Brea. Served in a contoured pint glass. Golden-to-amber in color, hazy, and with off-white head. Decent carbonation, perhaps low for style but adequate for a draft pour. Aromas recall the classic Bavarian Hefe, but with an angle toward the spicier, clovey side. Unexpectedly light and easy-drinking for a rye beer. Spicy, earthy rye malt flavor evident in the aftertaste, but isn’t a dominant presence throughout. Good beer, well-made, but a little boring for my taste

Poured a murky amber color with an off white head. Aroma of bubblegum, yeast, spice, fruit and bread. Flavor had rye, yeast, banana, bread and earth. Ok.

On tap at brepub. Was differnt. Nothing great but very drinkable. did not get any spice finish. did taste rye in a bread like form.

I enjoyed this beer. It was like having an amber ale with a rye element. very drinkable.

Not bad. I like my rye beers more like Founder’s Red & Black Rye - they just seem to have more meat to them whereas this came off like a standard ale. Notes of bread, grain, lemonpeel.