Karl: <\/strong>Fun name. \u00a0Pretty lame label. \u00a0Good beer? \u00a0Good beer. \u00a0I know I keep going back to the Rye-on-Rye from Boulevard as a touchstone, but only because it was so damned good. \u00a0It\u2019s going to be tough to top, and until then, I\u2019ll be revisiting it as often as I damned well please. \u00a0This rye beer is miles apart from the R-o-R in flavor, but still pretty good and definitely distinctive.<\/p>\nPouring a golden color edging into orangeness with a light white head and light lacing to match, this is one big mouthful of pepper and peach. \u00a0It\u2019s rich, it\u2019s bright, it\u2019s happily carbonated, it\u2019s got some citrus in it from those grapefruity hops, and nicely dry on the palate thanks to all that rye-ey goodness.<\/p>\n
Give this one a few minutes (or be forced to after a long evening of tasting has left you somewhat fatigued) and you\u2019ll find that while the peach aspect has backed off, the pepper remains and it just clarifies that punch and the fresh bright flavor of this beer. \u00a0And buried back in there is just a hint of green apple as well – all in all a standalone quality beer, and an even better palate clearer if you\u2019ve been weighing yourself down with overly heavy offerings over the course of an evening. \u00a0Either way, this is a winner.<\/p>\n
Andrew: <\/strong>The 12th Anniversary Arcadia Ales Sky High Rye poured an orange\/amber color with very little head. Lots of citrus notes with hints of some spice and malts in the nose.<\/p>\nThis was a very smooth, easy-drinking beer with nice carbonation. Bits of bitter hops, malts, spice and citrus balance each other out very well to help this beer go down easily. I will note that the citrus notes I picked up in the nose weren’t quite as pronounced in the flavor of the beer. Made for a very good summer beer and a good end to the evening.<\/div>\n
Ryan:<\/strong> Sometimes at the end of a beer reviewing night we reach for one last beer that we really don’t need and 9 times out of 10 we regret it.\u00a0 Sure, splitting a Russian Imperial Stout after sampling half-a-dozen other beers may seem like a good idea at the time.\u00a0 But it’s not.\u00a0 This time we did well.\u00a0 Very well.<\/p>\nWe cracked in to this bomber after clearing out reviews of Bell’s Batch 9,000, Founders Devil Dancer and Port’s Santa’s Little Helper – just to name a few.\u00a0 After downing dark, rich beers all night the straw in color, citrusy and slightly dry Sky High Rye was a very welcomed change of pace.<\/p>\n
This may have been the aforementioned beers talking but I wrote in my notes that, “I want to make this in to an air freshener.”\u00a0 That’s how good it smelled – lots of citrus and pepper.<\/p>\n
The taste was very bright and crisp; orange peel, lemon zest, tangerines and peaches.\u00a0 The rye made for a nice dry finish.<\/p>\n
I may have to keep this around as a standby to wrap up all of our beer tasting nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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