He'Brew R.I.P.A on Rye
Savor the provocative spirit of R.I.P.A on RYE, our HE’BREW monument to the richness, the bitterness and the sacred sweetness that is life...
Malts: Specialty 2-Row, Rye Ale, Torrified Rye, Rye Flakes, Crystal Rye 75, Crystal Malt 80, Wheat, Kiln Amber, CaraMunich 60
Hops: Warrior, Cascade, Simcoe, Crystal, Chinook, Amarillo, Centennial
Dry Hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo and Crystal
Malts: Specialty 2-Row, Rye Ale, Torrified Rye, Rye Flakes, Crystal Rye 75, Crystal Malt 80, Wheat, Kiln Amber, CaraMunich 60
Hops: Warrior, Cascade, Simcoe, Crystal, Chinook, Amarillo, Centennial
Dry Hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo and Crystal
3.8
306 reviews
Clifton Park, United States
Community reviews
22 oz bottle served with dinner. Too strong to work well with food but nice as an after-meal sipper. The load of flavor from the rye barrel would overpower most beers but not this DIPA. Sweet for style, suggesting, with the strong rye flavor, that some rye whisky was left in the barrels.
Bottle: Poured a light clear amber color ale with a huge off-white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of dry bitter hops and rye whiskey notes actually works well together which is a first for me since I usually don’t dig barrel-aged IPA. Taste is a perfect mix between the dry caramel malt residual sugars with some dry bitter hops notes and the rye whiskey notes which are quite pronounced but do a good job of rounding the rough edges of this beer. Body is about average with good carbonation with light warming alcohol notes. This one drinks more like a barrel-aged barley wine with a touch of hops but very good nonetheless.
650mL 2014 bottle. Pours a dark amber with a big frothy off-white cap. Aroma of citrus, fruit, caramel, huge rye barrel nose. Taste is pretty sweet from caramel, and nice bitterness. Rye spice heat. Damn tasty.
This is the most interesting IPA I’ve had to date. Not necessarily the best... but it melds two of my favorite things in the world (Whiskey and Beer) and I’ll be damned if I don’t thoroughly appreciate that.
To start: I absolutely can tell it was aged in whiskey barrels. The spicy rye flavors are incredible and super apparent. It’s weirdly smooth and arcs into a slight hoppiness that reminds me it’s an IPA and then transitions into the final flavors. These are the most pleasurable flavors in my opinion with a nice rounded caramel flavor that leaves you smiling. Also accompanied by that warm whiskey feeling.
Bomber bottle. Malty and hoppy aroma with obvious whiskey barrel scent and flavor. Brown color with slight reddish tint. Apparent wood flavor, but not too much, with a pretty nice IPA flavor. Quite full bodied. Overall, a very nice wood-aged beer!
Mahogany body and oatmeal head, fades to a skiff. Aroma is malt, dark fruit, whiskey, and something funky... Taste is...whiskey, rye, malt, more whiskey, some bitter citrus rind, with vanilla, and dark fruit, quite sweet really. Palate is fairly viscous, carbonation moderate and fine. Booze is there, finish bittersweet, like whiskey and hops.
Wow you won't believe this is an ipa. The bourbon barrel really takes over on this beer. Nose of chocolate, vanilla, licorice and dark malts. The hops kick in on the back end. Truly wonderful beer.
A very sweet and bitter beer. Smells like alcohol and pours a deep brown red in color. Had at feezors house
Had at Yom Haatzmaut celebration. Pour is an orange brown. Definitely boozy/scotch smell. Taste is some bourbon, caramel sweetness, rye and alcohol - but not too much alcohol. All in all, a very enjoyable beer.
Bière au goût extrêmement prononcé d'alcool. Ça ressemble plus a un scotch qu'une double IPA... Parfait pour ceux qui adorent les bières très style barleywine/liquoreuse.
I don’t even know where to begin with this, it truly is like nothing I’ve had and I mean that in both good and bad ways. It pours a murky dark, burt orange with red hues and mahogany overtones. Looks like it came out of a barrel. The aroma is strong and bizarre, I have a hard time coming up with proper descriptors. There is definitely a strong candied orange (bordering on Pledge), There is also a sharp rye spiciness and dark malty backbone. The taste is perhaps just a bit more subtle but just as bizarre, more candied citrus, sharp pine and rye. Big malts, oak, some heat. Good and not so good, just all over the place but also total interesting.
Deep amber with little to no head. Nose is lightly oxidized, brown sugar, light rye. Flavor is similar- a bit of soap, raisins, dates, oak and bourbon. Okay. Drinkable but not something I would necesarily want again.
Pours dark amber with a very thin white head. Cough drop and whiskey aroma. Taste is cherry and menthol. Finish is bitter.
I don't like rye bread. I don't trust things with swirls in general. I use the toilet only out if pure necessity.
Awesome! A RyePA in rye whisky barrels. Notes of rye, malt, boozy malty scotch, the hops are muted, but not the bitterness. Like a loaf of pumpernickel in a bottle.
Draft at Winberie’s (Princeton, NJ). Pours muddy orange with an inch of white head. Aroma is tangerine, bread dough. Lots of sweet malt flavor right up front with a bit of hop character on the finish. The rye adds a nice element and depth but the malt is really the star of the show. A big 10% DIPA that hides the alcohol very well. Not a traditional showing for this genre by any means though.
Bottle, from it forget . Strong on barrel kind of sweet, rye dancing around. Clean orangey brown color, ok head and lace. Bitter sweet flavor, thick body, viscous oily mouthfeel, bitter dry finish. Good, aroma is kind of Unappealing to me, too much barrel. Once again confirming my unlike of barrel IPA’s, or in this case IIPA’s
Brown pour from 22oz bottle. Whiskey flavor. Heavy beer. White head. Carmel raisin plum and grape notes. Pretty good. Different
Had this in a bomber into glass.. brownish hazy poor with little off white head very malty aroma hints of Carmel alcohol. Potent stuff..some dead fruit...diffrent
Bottle. Reddish copper with a beige head. Sweet hops and honey. Sweet, sticky and bitter.
F0BAB 2010: Nice. Clear g0ld b0dy with a challenged beige head, this had a fairly s0lid h0p bite despite the aging. Besides that, there was a light caramel/t0ffee sweetness with a splash 0f b00ze and a w00dy bitterness. 0nce m0re..Nice.
Bottle from Victors. Aroma of delicious toffee, cookies, rye, and slight citrus. Pours muddy deep iced tea colored. Taste is delicious with blondies, caramel, toffee, bourbon, and citrus. Delicious rye throughout. Great malty mouthfeel. Big fan of this one.
Bottled January 7, 2014, batch 4, 850 cases. Aged in Redemption Rye Whiskey barrels.
Appearance: The body is a beautifully clear garnet with a short lived light tan head. The head forms a thin coating with a dense latte like ring.
Aroma: The aroma is big with a lot going on. I get some orangey hops, whiskey and rye, with a slight pickle aroma. Oak and vanilla are slightly present along with a slight smokiness. The aroma has good strength.
Taste: Whiskey is the life-blood here with rye, very slight sourness and a touch of pickle brine throughout. The hops are slightly present providing a mild bitterness with orange and grapefruit. The finish is spicy of rye, hints of whiskey and undercurrents of vanilla.
Palate: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: I had this before and remember it entirely differently. I assume that this is due to the bottle that I had being old so the hops had fully faded. This is still nice, but the way the hops interact with the whiskey and rye spice comes off a little like pickles to me. It’s not off-putting, but I could see it being so.
Just didn't care for this one. Bitterness and sweetness battled for control of the palate and ended up making both come out bad.
Bottle. pours nice dark brown, amber color, huge tan head, nice balanced nose of malts and hops, a bit sweet. pretty clean finish. yumm.
22oz bottle. Pours a dark amber with a thin head. Decent amount of carbonation. The aroma had a nice hoppy snap to it that is quickly drowned out by the smell of whiskey. The flavor starts out with a nice citrusy bite and finishes with the vanilla and smoke of the rye whiskey. Very well put together beer.
Darker amber color, moderate head, some lace/retention. Aroma is grapefruit, vanilla, barrel, caramel, spicy rye, light citrus. Medium to full body, sweet, not really an IIPA at all but still enjoyable. I’d consider this an American Strong Ale and not an IIPA but whatever.
Bottle from the holiday pack. Pours clear amber, off-white head. Nose is grapefruit, rye whiskey, pine, caramel. Rye whiskey and spiciness in the flavour, vanilla, pine, citrus.
From the February 2014 3R6P tasting +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark caramel color with a medium sized foamy orange-beige head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was sweet coconut, vanilla, toasty malts and marshmallow. The flavor was tangy and a somewhat bitter, boozy, coconut, vanilla, marshmallow, rum, wood and just a hint of chocolate and coffee. The finish was incredibly long with coconut, marshmallow, toasty malts and rum lingering. Moderately full bodied. Boozy but in a way that worked. Outstanding.
Bottle. Hazy, reddish brown pour. Caramel, rye, pine, soda and spice. Spicy carbonation with medium body. Short slightly bitter finish. Good but nothing too special