American Rye Amber

[Mike Neilson]

Tell me all about it!! Please dont be ashamed to critisise, as I believe it helps to refine my beers!!

[Mike Neilson]

You will have to drink it faster to replace the fluids lost to sweat!!

[studio1]

There you go - its all gone. There really is an appreciable spicyness that lingers - thats the Rye??
Wish I had another...

[Stu McKinlay]

Purs a ruddy burnished murky reddish-brown chestnutty colour... with a Scotch Fillet highlight, or something like that. Brief airy head. Light lace. Big resin, spice and citrus american hop aroma... yankee doodle dandee!! a little caramel malt and grainy character lift the hops rather than compete. Slender in the mouth, with smooth citrus and caramel double helix through the middle, a little late alcohol and then a really interesting jizz-free minty tart finish. Unusual and, like all of Mike's beers I've tried so far, bloody good (and big).

I suppose you could ask for longer conditioning or some filtering/fining to clear it all up but who cares - this tastes great as is!

Thanks.

[Mike Neilson]

Filtering? I like to call it polishing!! I had a intresting chat with another online realbeerer who reacon and I think I concur with him that 1056 allmost needs a Largering stage to it conditioning to clear it. But if you reuse the yeast a couple times its mint flocs alot better and is still as clean as a new whistle!!

[Stu McKinlay]

I'd agree with the lagering/CCing idea. S05 is similar - in all other respects, besides the flocc'ing, it seems more like 1272 than 1056.

[James P]

Well f**k me... that felt like a big beer.... Poured brown with head bigger than Ron Jeremy... lasted nearly all night.

Smells of a little fruitiness and a little pine. Nice carbonation (coming from the pansy lager brewer), an excellent alcohol warmth. Bitterness was a little less than a single malt whiskey, but still very nice.

It has a big scrotum, but no semen... not that I know what semen tastes like...

Cheers Mike!

[MrC]

Are you sure? Isn't that James Dean in your avatar ;-)

[Mike Neilson]

Big Beers Big Balls!!! What more can I say!!

[James P]

Tis James Dean, probably the one man I would turn gay for, and as he's dead there's no chance of me swapping sides!

[Mike Neilson]

I know your a Larger drinker and all, but did you like it? Hey had it cleared at all?

[James P]

What do you mean larger... alcoholic larger, or fat larger? :) (Sorry couldn't help it, I know you mean lager!!)

Yes I liked it as it reminded me of a whiskey. Good warming sensation, and a little bit of a bite, which I may have been a little naive about and should have realised coming from you and your 10 abuses commandments of malt and hops use.... :)

I'd think about it for a winter warmer, and Dale's PKB clone with a couple more points!

[Mike Neilson]

Yes Lager my bad!!