Founders Black Rye

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Specialty Grain
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Bottle. Pours tar, thick tan-off white head. Aroma is pine, burnt coffee, cedar, molasses, caramel, vanilla, grass. Flavor is coffee, molasses, smoke, caramel, wheat, vanilla, pine. Smooth with a tiny bitterness at the end.

bottle shared at volgons. Dark brown in color with ruby highlights. Aroma is chocolate, caramel, bready like malt. Taste is chocolate, light notes of roast, caramel, with the rye seeming to come through in the middle of the taste and in the finish: spicy and lightly bitter.

from the bottle. a decent beer with some good flavor. it’s strong, almost stouty but definitely rewards your tastebuds.

Draft. Deep black with tan 1" head. Sharp. Super dry. Mix of sweet and sour. Smooth, even finish that lightly coats the back of my throat.

Cold 12oz bottle: Pours a dark opaque brown color with a big, rocky persistent tan head; leave a lot of thick lacing. Roasted malts, coffee, chocolate and dark fruits. Light to medium bodied, medium carbonation and smooth. Ending has a light alcohol burn to it.

Bottle: Brown with a good white head, bread, brown sugar and dark fruits in the aroma, mellow carbonation and medium bodied, starts and ends lightly sweet.with a spicy aftertaste. An excellent beer.

light/mod aroma of cereal, roast, pine, some must, and maybe some black currant. taste is coffee roastiness and smooth warm breakfast cereal sweetness fading to a biscuit dryness and finishing in a citrus pine bitterness. pretty tasty brew.

Dark brown, almost black colour with a small tan head. Roasted malty aroma with a light coffee bitterness and some chocolate sweetness. Light roasted malty and fruity flavor with hints of chocolate and coffee.