Lancaster Rare Rooster Summer Rye Ale

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

Bottle. Cloudy orange copper with small head. Aroma is herbal with a ton of rye. Flavors of rye, caramel, coriander, and slight cheddar. Buttery mouthfeel with soft carbonation. Good stuff.

Bottle. Split with Tony. Pours a slightly hazy amber gold body. Aroma is sweet malt. Taste is flavorful sweet malt.

12oz bottle thanks to my buddy ben4321. Orangish-amber color with a small, quickly dissipating off-white head. Aroma is rye bread, butter, and corn. Flavor is some rye, caramel malt, and grain, along with an overwhelming buttery diacetyl flavor that sort of kills it. Wouldn’t be too bad without that, not that it would really be that exciting either. Body is fairly watery and thin and it has a weird butteriness to the mouthfeel as well. Overall, not so good.

12 oz bottle-amber color w/almost no head. Sour bread dough aroma. Flavors of sour/bad bread w/some rye, bad fruit... this just isn’t very good. Tasted like sour bread. I’ve had beer in bars which tasted like this...usually Yuengling in a crappy bar which doesn’t keep their tap lines clean, I always get the hell out of a place which serves beer like this, as I will in this case... this is drainpour!

Poured from a bottle into a pub glass: a deep copper with almost no head whatsoever. The smell was pretty hard to handle, but when I thought "rye" or "sourdough" and then smelled it again it seemed fitting, thus I gave it a good score for smell as it is rye and smells like such. The flavors were not nearly as awful as some reviewers made them out to be. However, I could only handle 1/4 of this. I didn’t taste any metals, bananas, or think it was too sweet, but I did feel like I was taking a gulp of sourdough with each swallow, which is something I hope to avoid doing in the future. This is my first rye beer, but I can’t imagine they are all this bad. My stomach is currently upset and I believe the beer is solely to blame.

Poured a clear copper color with big foamy white head. Aroma is corn, metal, banana, and dough. Flavor is really syrupy sweet, almost like bananas coated in brown sugar. Slight cinnamon spice in the finish. Overall, way too sweet for my tastes.

Enjoyed from a 12oz bottle in a pub glass. The beer pours a deep copper color, with a small white head. Aromas of caramel come through in the nose, balanced by just a touch of west coast hops (cascade?). The palate is complimentary as both a summer refresher, as well as in general as a year-round beer. Notes of malt and caramel/toffee come through, with a dry and slightly bitter finish. Underrated.