Left Hand Rye Bock

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Dunkler Bock
Longmont, Colorado USA

Bottle at Butters Big Cellar Blowout. Pours a khaki head with a copper body. Smells of whole-grain bread, yeast, and caramel. Flavor is caramel, apple, malt, grain bread. Finish is toasty. Some smoke throughout.

Bottle (75 cl). Pours a dark hazy copper coloured liquid with a small foam. Smells of malt and caramell. The taste is very malty and easy to drink. A good lager but not a great beer.

The aroma was not as interesting as expected. A lot of molasses and brown sugar, fruit like cherry, and a grainy cereal aroma, recognizable as rye, but it’s not overwhelming. The appearance is attractive, a hazy ruby red, sizeable white head. The flavor is malty, tangy, the rye is noticeable, there is a residual sweetness. The finish is a competing sweet malty flavor, and some moderate hops. Medium/thick mouthfeel. Decent overall. Not as interesting as expected, but good (a little expensive, too!).

750 in tulip. Reddish brown with lasting head and lace. Toasted caramel spice and fruity cherry maple syrup aroma. Very sweet caramel syrupy sweet with very spicy lingering bitter rye spice. Medium-full body. Bitter fizzy carbonation. Lingering bitter mouth-covering yuck. Medium-full body. Honestly, I can’t put a finger on why I dislike this so much. The extreme spiciness combined with the syrupy fruitiness...well...maybe that’s it.

750 ml, 2007 vintage that gushes from the bottle. Translucent copper-brown with a lasting disc of cream above. Spongy lacing on the glass. Aroma is strong molasses with hints of grain and cocoa. Flavor is molasses tempered with caramel, lightly peppery grain, and some faint grassy hops. Medium-heavy body is smoothly carbonated and none too dry.

Bottle. High and long lasting fluffy white head. Hazy dark red brown body. Distinct roasted rye malt aroma with a bit of caramel as well. Flavor as indicated by the aroma with the addition of a fair amount of hops bitterness. Low carbonation, short aftertaste.

Poured a hazy brown with a huge beige head. Aromas of toasted malt, caramel, and rye spiciness. Flavor is sweet smooth with the abv hidden well. Nicel balance between the sweetness and the spiciness of the rye and hops.

<b>In short: </b>A big bodied larger with a whole lot of rye. Intensely rye flavoured. I liked it a lot.
<b>How: </b>Bottle 750ml, consumed relatively fresh 2 months after purchase
<b>The look: </b>Cloudy amber body topped by a large beige head
<b>In long: </b>Rye is very apparent on the nose. Taste is rye rye rye and more rye. One of the beer with the most omnipresent rye flavour I’ve ever had. I really like that fruity and slightly spicy feeling I get from rye. This is a full bodied beer. Very rich and nourishing with a big body filled with caramel and some toffee although the rye remains upfront. Surprisingly, despite the size of the beer I got that smooth lager sensation I like so much in session lagers. Well done beer. A little too sweet but forgivable given its other qualities. If you like rye-beers this is one you’ll like. And if you bought this beer but don’t like rye then you need to go back and watch your old Sesame Street episodes, namely the “E”, “R” and “Y” episodes.