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Terrapin Rye Pale Ale 3.48 657

Terrapin Rye Pale Ale

Percentile
87
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6573.49/5.03.48/5.05.3%92.7Lager glass, Shaker
Commercial Description:
We Consider this an extreme version of an American Pale Ale. It has a very up front floral and citrus aroma from a late cascade addition and dry hopping with Amarillo. This beer also has a big malt background to balance the bitterness of the hops. The rye malt cleans up your palette after you swallow so the hop flavor does not stick in your mouth too long.
Now available in bottles.
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 BrotherGrendel (591), San Diego, California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/104/517/20
Sep 3, 2009  
Bottle at Pinhook. Cloudy orange hue with not much head. Nose is big rye with wort-like sweet pale malts and grape-nuts grain. Flavor is big time rye and malt balanced by a grassy-chalk hop presence, can anyone say Hop Deli? Medium-bodied with a smooth texture. Unique rye flavor embodies this rare style, and this is quite balanced. Delicious and standout much like most of Terrapin’s beers!


 tennisjoel (949), Shakopee, Minnesota, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
Sep 1, 2009  
Bottle thanks to zizzybalubba! Golden colored pour with a thin white head. Very grassy/earthy hops. Flavor is subtle and light. A little boring. Nothing offensive. OK.


 imdownthepub (5161), Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 1, 2009  
Bottled, 355ml, from Bellingers Garage, Grove, Oxon. Orange amber, carbonated, with white head. Initial dull wet cardboard from the carbonation, turns into a fruity but sharp, pine resin type flavour, dry on the hops with a light bitterness. Finishes a little thin and lemonade on the palate, but overall quite reasonable.


 asheft (1437), Marburg, Germany
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 31, 2009  
[bottle] Beautiful floral and citrus bouquet--notes of apricot and strawberry. Also some toffee. Foggy gold covered by wisps of white. Flavor = assertive bitterness in front of dry caramel and bitter grapefruit. Peach and pear accents. Light to medium body, medium carbonation, lingering bitterness, though dry and crisp in the finish.


 Radek Kliber (3957), Toronto (Can) Krotoszyn (Pol), Ontario, Canada
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 29, 2009  
bottle 355 ml
Appearance: crystal bright darker toned amber with large presentable neatly matching crown. Fragmental lace shown. Almost perfect show. 4+
Nose: brilliant hop freshness, garden feel after rain, citrusy green feel. Hoppy but fairly mild and friendly with balanced caramel malt sweets. 8-
Flavor/Palate : full bodied. Smooth soft texture , full out well rounded malt , very soft with gentle leafy lip smacking hop feel. One of smoothers pale ale there is on market. I wish that top end hop character was noted bit more as malt here is very established. Solid brew.f-7+


 branspra (225), Arlington, Virginia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/514/20
Aug 28, 2009  
Bottle. Pours a nice amber color with a rather large head. Aromas of hops, malts, and a very nice rye aroma. Mouthfeel is very smooth and a nice slick finish. Flavors of hops to start and then a nice malt finish.


 Foxbush (460), Richmond, Virginia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/512/20
Aug 28, 2009  
This was purchased at Whole Foods to support John Mackey. It is my first Terrapin beer. The ale had a frothy head and amber color with a nose of grapefruit. The hops were just enough to be a pale ale. They say the rye malt helps to dull the bitterness of the aftertaste. I do not think I have had rye malt before to support this.


 hershiser2 (914), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/514/20
Aug 25, 2009  
Bottle from Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville ($1.70). Golden amber with a small off-white head, Smells of grasses and sour grapes. Tastes of lemon peel, grass, ash, dirt, and orange. Interesting.



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