The Bruery Rugbrød

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Specialty Grain
Placentia, California USA

20091220 750ml bottle from State Line. Dark caramel brown with large brown head of big bubbles. Aroma is doughy, sawdust, black olive. Medium bodied with aggressive carbonation and mild bitterness. Slight dusty astringency. Quite sour in a sourdough, yeasty way, with notes of apple butter, lightly smoky, light licorice rope. Interesting.

Bottle from Dipsticky1.
Pours a deep mahogany with a head that rises faster than a teenage boy’s Levis during a porno video. Aroma is cigarette breath, red wine malt, and rye bread. Flavor is cigarette ash, cigar smoke, roasted malt, and lemon-infused tobacco. Tingly and lingering on the tongue. One of the most interesting beers I’ve had.

750 ml bottle - pours clear dark caramel brown with foamy light tan head fading to a thin film; prunes, brown sugar, dates and touch of rye spice; chocolate too; texture is soft and almost creamy; a very slight sourness is present; somewhat interesting, but flavor profile is a little bland

Tap @ Papago. Sweet fruit, some rye and roasted grain in aroma. Red body with off white head. Alot of sweet toffee candy here with some rye grain. Sweetener at least took some heat off the palate after that pickle pepered sandwitch. Little too sweet but not bad.

Name: Rugbrod
Date: December 01, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Hop City, Atlanta
Appearance: muddy brown, frothy beige head, drippy lace
Aroma: spicy chocolate aroma, dry chocolate, spicy rye, touch of sweet fruity esters
Body: creamy body
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, complex spicyness of rye and hops plus phenolics, nice balancing earthy bitterness, just a touch of fruity estery sweetness at the end
Overall: adding a shot of yeast adds fruity esters
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4

On tap at Papago. I thought this was solid. Pours a murky plum color with a tan head. Smells of licorice and rye. Tastes predominantly of both with added notes of cinnamon and mild fruitcake. Eating this with a Ruben is a wise move.

Awful. Tap at the Bruery. Awful. Worse than the Ambrio I had on tap at Toro SD. Smells bland and vaguely oxidized. Flavor is nasty tart grains and soured hops. Wretched.

Bomber, back to back with Laurelwood Wry Pale Ale.

Pours a dark brown with an abundant and fluffy tan head. Nice beer, big rye flavor like rye wasa. Sweet, too sweet for my own taste, bits of sour that are characteristically Bruery. Good beer, but it cannot live up to the crisp, clean, minimalist lines of Laurelwood’s wry pale. Still, nice enough and I’m glad to have tried.