The Bruery Rugbrød

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

Bottle pours clear dark brown with light tan head. Aroma is rye with a lot of spice. And I mean my nose is burning spice. Medium mouthfeel. Flavor follows the nose and seems to get more hot spicy as I drink it. Did they brew this with hot peppers or what? Just spicy. That seems to stick out more to me more than anything.

Pours deep mahogany into a lager glass. Huge tan micro head with unbelievable retention ice cream cones and recedes. Chocolate and rye aromas. LIvely pumpernickel upfront turning to spicy sweet rye in the lasting finish.

Tap at Mug Ale House: Deep murky brown/maroon pour with a tan ring of head. Spicy/chewy aroma- lots of rye giving off a chocolaty like note and thick dark bread. There’s also a mild fruity note from the yeast. A bit slick in texture. The flavor has a chewy rye presence and a date paste-like sweetness. There’s also some chalky phenolcis. A bit chalky overall but not bad.

Birthday bottle. Room-filling dark and earthy rye aroma with muddy malts. Roast smoke and crust, some nice Maillard reactions. Chestnut pour with a huge, rocky and lacing tan head. Sweet sugary taste, caramel and extremely spicy rye, some alcohol wollop despite the modest percentage. Black and green licorice (don’t ask) in the finish. Shot of not-quite-clove phenols. Flimsy thin body and feel. Not much to rave about here, sort of a liquid-yeast smell and aftertaste, a minor disappointment from a brewery I’ve come to respect.

(Draught) Pours a hazy brown body with a dense thick tan head. Aroma of herbs, nuts, roasted malt, rye, caramel, and chocolate. Flavor of rye, nuts, cocoa, roasted malt, and caramel with a dry finish.

On tap at The Bruery tasting room. Very grainy nutty aroma. Really good smelling. it tastes nutty a little roasty. It tastes like a slightly burnt piece of whole grain toast. Very interesting and really really good!!!

Clear brown color/ tan head. Big malty spicy, seedy rye bread aromas. Medium body. Spicy, nutty dark rye toast, chewy Grape Nuts cereal, granola grainy flavors with lightly sweet caramel. different.

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.