Founders Reds Rye P.A.

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

Bottle, a bonus from pabobcat---man I’m glad I got to try this one. Thank you!

Pours a beautiful deep copper with a nice light-tan head. Great looking beer. And a splendid aroma as well: malts balancing well against deep robust hops that blend sweet citrus and plenty of resin, rich caramel notes coming through strong, ample spiciness from the rye. The flavor comes very close but doesn’t quite match the previous two. Plenty of malted rye driving this one, and points for the distinctive contributions from the yeast. Piney hops dance all around, strong and notable but never overbalancing the rye and other malts. If I were to complain about anything, it comes of just a notch to bready and just a notch underhopped to take it to the highest of planes. Must of that may have to do with the bottled condition of this one, I can speculate that fresh on cask or even draft would be absolutely divine. I’m now ISO this on tap or cask next time I visit Michigan. I’m tossing in a point to overall based on potential, but I suspect even that leaves me with a conservative 4.2.

I can see why this went so far in the recent DIPAC bracket. It’s excellent! This is another one of those "why I love beer" beers.

Dark red/copper colored beer with nice medium sized white head. Well balanced, a citrusey/floral aroma followed by a slightly sweet and bitter taste. It is quite rich in flavor, and the malted rye gives it a unique flavor that is impressive. I really, really enjoyed this beer.

Pours a reddish amber with a good sized off white head. The aroma has some caramel, a bit of spice and lots of rye. The flavor is a good balance of sweet and bitter. The caramel sweetness is balanced with a great hop bitterness and the added ry just gives it that uniqueness that helps this beer stand out. Good dry finish. Excellent

Dark bourbon, red hues, maple syrup. Small beige head. Malty spicy aroma. Good amount of hops, sweet, spicy, caramel. Very balanced unique and delicious.

From bottle : Pours a dark muddy brown color, with a HUGE offwhite rocky head that has big time staying power. Very thick lacing as well. Alot of hops come through the nose of this one. With also some underlying sweet malt smells. Taste is sweet, and slightly hoppy, Then mellows toward the end. Some sour mash and malts in there too, very interesting and good. Medium body that thins toward the back end, with a smooth feel. Aftertaste is kinda sour, but not to bad. Pretty good little brew.

Draft at Theresa’s in Wayne,Pa. Nice red/dark copper color with a rocky 2 finger head. Well poured as everything here is including the 2 cask beers(not easy if you’ve never done it). Like Monk’s, these girls know their beer. My young waitress said she loved this beer and wondered why it took so long to get it.This beer looks great and the nose is even better. I smelled a perfect hop aroma that I have not experienced since I had Victory Hop Devil on cask for the 1st time. This was perfect. All that flowering hop aroma with an awesome appearance.The 1st taste was better than I expected since my anticipation from my sense of smell and sight of this marvel was most likely yet another disappointment. This surpassed in taste what I thought was going to be a great beer. It was the best beer I ever had. Wow! I have no perfect scores here in my little file of reviews, but then again, the day I taste the perfect beer, what is the point of going on? Pursuit is the best part of the game. My favorite beer before this was Youngs SLA and I considered that the perfect harmony of all things beer. F**K styles and guidelines, it is what tastes good to you. I have a new perfectly harmonic new favorite. By the way, the abv (6.8)is not even remotely present in any way. Enjoy this folks, it is a gem.

Easy to like. Rich clear deep reddish gold with a small head, leaves good lacing. Taste of sweet malts, sour mash, floral hops, American PAcific North West pine and citrus hops, caramel, and a nice hoppy bitter finish. Balanced and easy to drink.

From a bottle pours dark amber with little head. Nice hopy flavor with almost a burnt aftertaste.