Lancaster Rare Rooster Summer Rye Ale

Brewed by Lancaster Brewing Co.
Style: Specialty Grain
Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA

So I picked this up from Capone’s the other day and decided to give it a try. The beer poured a medium amber, clear, minute head with slight carbonation. The bouquet has quite a bit of caramel malt with back notes of grains. The caramel tones really overpowered the rest of the bouquet. The taste is initially caramel, but the finish is of dry grains and bready yeast. The body is on the heavier side of medium, as the taste really takes over the old buds. The beer also cloys a bit, but this really does not detract from the drinking. This is a tasty beer that is good cold, but really workd well under English conditions. I plan to have more of this during the summer!

12 oz brown bottle. Clear golden with little head. Fruity yeast notes with some earthy hops and butterscotch in aroma. Fruity yeast character over carmelized malt with some rye bitterness in the finish.

tap at the harrisburg location. I thought this was pretty good. has a decent body. taste is a bit of a sweet malt mixed with a strong rye presence. kinda yummy.

Very clear amber body with a medium creamy off-white head. Butterscotch, caramel, toffee, with grainy hints. More butterscotch flavor, light grain, and faint rye hints finally shining through. Medium light body with moderately low carbonation.

Mostly clear auburn poor supporting a thin dusky white head with little retention. Not much to write home about in the aroma save for some notes of mildly toasted malt and hay. Flavor is similar to a straight up pale with some lingering toffee and vanilla cream. Thin texture and unmenorable finish. All of that said, this isn’t a bad beer but it’s only as rare as a taxi in Brooklyn.

tap at brewpub: Disappointing rye. That’s what happens when there is no rye character, no rye spiciness, etc. thin, dull.

Light copper, almost no head, almost no lace, almost no nose other than the rye. Taste of rye and some sweetness, only a touch of bitterness. Thin in the mouth. After al the apparent negatives, it’s a nice enough beer, easy to drink, no obvious flaws. Wouldn’t buy another, but nothing to complain about. An extra point for being low alcohol ... nice in a lawn mower beer. This is definitely better than Red Hook Sun Rye.

A nice rye beer. Aroma was decent. Caramel malt and rye. Pour was a nice red with a thin off white ring for a head. Taste was very caramelly which I must assume is the rye. Sweet butterscotch on the aftertaste. Could use a little more carbonation, but all in all a decent beer,