Left Hand Rye Bock
Thanks for purchasing another offering in our Big Mo’ Series. Our Rye Bock is a pleasant departure from traditional bocks and rye beers. The use of malted rye in beer finds its origins in Bavaria. We here at Left Hand use a bottom fermenting lager yeast, paired with a hop profile of classic German bocks. Our Rye Bock gets a wonderful tangy spiciness from the rye, accompanied by dried cherry aromas in the nose. It is a beer of great flavor with a long, savory finish.
The image of a goat has traditionally been the symbol of bock beers. It was customary to feed goats rye to make them potent in the spring. We love the marriage of these two ideas. Will our Rye Bock exacerbate your spring fever? Maybe not, but trying out old folklores never tasted so good.
The image of a goat has traditionally been the symbol of bock beers. It was customary to feed goats rye to make them potent in the spring. We love the marriage of these two ideas. Will our Rye Bock exacerbate your spring fever? Maybe not, but trying out old folklores never tasted so good.
3.5
237 reviews
Longmont, United States
Community reviews
From the Bottle at RBESG Harlequin, Sheffield 19/07/2009
Big malt aroma. Amber coloured rich and slightly sweet on the palate with a slightly dry wheaty finish.
2007 750ml botte opened October 09. Pours a near clear viscous slightly red brown with a nice frothy off-white foamy froth. Aroma has some funk, leather, brown sugar. Flavor of leather, brown sugar, a bit funky, some infection. Medium bodied, fairly chewy.
2008 bottle. Dark red-brown with a creamy tan head. Spicy and bready rye aroma together with raisins and hints of cellar. Solid nutty and bready flavours and dry throughout. Noticeable alcohol. Quite fizzy, full body. A great bock.
750 ml. bottle. Vintage 2007. Flowed up and out of the bottle upon opening, the over flow was cleverly caught in a bowl. After the exuberant overflow, the head settled into a thin layer, with minimal lacing, over a slightly cloudy, coppery, (SRM 16) body....nose leads with caramel, toffee malts, followed by gentle dried fruit (cherry, raisin), then rye bread....taste is light sweet malts to start, then light dried fruit, followed by rye bread tones, and a final lingering harsh bitterness....mouth feel is medium, carbonation high even after the initial burst. This is not nearly as layered, complex or flavorful as anticipated. Perhaps the bottle was past its prime, alas.
Bottle at RBESG 09 Sheffield. Hazy chestnut colour with lasting beige head. Soy sauce on aroma and malty in mouth. Bit mouldy in fact. Really not that good.
Bottle @ RBESG Grand Tasting 2009... hazy brown ... sweet rye toffee nose... rich toffee sweet malt ... malt extract ... rich soft and smooth ... lots of honey.
Bottle at the RBESG09 Grand tasting, sheffield. Alround rating: Big grainy sweet brown bready malt character, theres not much hop character in there. Im not into bocks.
2007 Bottle Conditioned
12/18/2008: Left Hand Rye Bock Lager has a rich honey-amber color. There are tides of tiny carbonation bubbles that create a large, dense, khaki-colored head on the top with stiff peaks that depsoits puffy lacing on the glass. The aroma includes sugary toasted malts that are slightly roasty and a definite rye characteristic. This beer smells very inviting and has a great presentation for a rye beer. Flavors include caramel sweetness, tasted malts, dry tangy rye in the middle, and a dry roasted rye flavor with spice and coffee in the finish. This beer is very balanced and complex and has aged just right (I wouldn’t want to hold onto it much longer). It has a medium-full body and a very good mouthfeel. This is an excellent beer thatn completely passes my expectations!
1 Pint, 9.36 fl. oz. corked and caged bottle (Alc. By Vol. 7.7%) from Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio. Rating #211 for this beer.
[RBESG, Sheffield]
Grand Tasting @ The Harlequin, Sheffield.
Pours hazy amber with a big, creamy, off-white head. Aroma is pure rye bread with that sour-bread tartness to it. Medium carbonation, fine dry mouthfeel. Flavour is much better and more complex than the aroma. Some honey, rye, sweetness, nuts and lightly vinious. Okay.
Corked bottle @ RBESG Grand Tasting 2009. 2008 vintage. Orange color. Rye bread in the aroma and flavor. Sweet with some lemon notes. A bit too onedimensional to be really impressive.
RBESG Sheffield 2009 Grand Tasting at the Harlequin. Hazy dark amber colour, big head. Aroma of ryebread, malts, bread. Flavour is sweet, rye, malty, caramel, light bitter finish. Medium bodied. Good stuff.
750ml bottle 7/15/09 (Binny’s Naperville)-Pours a hazy dark amber body with a huge of white head. Aroma of rye, malt, caramel, and fruit. Taste of the same with some sweetness and toffee on the back end. This medium brewed beer is not bad fairly well balanced and tasty.
Pours turbid brown with 1-finger off-white head. Nose is rye and caramel malt, sour mashy fruit. Tastes caramel malty, with pronounced rye notes, some hops, brown sugar, nuts. Comes off as a British bitter with more caramel and hops and rye.
Bottle 75cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #8. ]
Unclear medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, dusty, rye, rye bread, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090612]
On tap at the Flying Saucer in KC. Pours a cloudy, mahogany colored body with a thick and dense, two-finger width, light tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice, thick and foamy lacing. Aroma is mild with some sweet, grainy malts and rye bread. Some soft spices and chocolates, dark fruits, and a light toasty caramel. Similar flavor. Sweet caramels and a light rye breadiness. Some dark fruits and prunes, chocolate, toasted toffee, and a light hop bitterness. Finishes sweet with a light spice, somewhat dry and moderately sweet and spiced bread aftertaste. Medium to full body. Overall, not bad at all, just not very exciting. Soft spicing and moderately sweet malts make this somewhat enjoyable.
Bottle 75 cl. Pours an almost clear amber with a creamy off-white head. Sweetish aroma of roasted malt and pumpernickel. Medium body, a little low in carbonation, sweetish roasted malt and pumpernickel. Hardly any bitterness in the finish. 120609
Man, this stuff is overrated. Pours hazy, brownish to rieddish with short lived head. Smell is grainy cereal. Taste is sweet and not much of any rye present. Lots of malty cereal character. Medium body. Ugh..Very sweet, and a drain pour.
Light hazy deep amber colour with a beige head. Caramel, alcohol and fruity sweet aroma with a light buttery note. Malty, caramel sweet flavor with notes of fruit and nuts. Light alcohol sweet finish.
Dark brown amber with some haze, tan head. Citrus spice and butterscotch aroma. Taste is caramel, creamy and smooth.
Pours a dark amber. Heavy aroma of molasses, caramel and sweet malt. Taste is too sweet for me with a cloying malty aftertaste.
Butters Big Blowout - Pours a hazy dark red. Roasted malt, caramel, some fruit. Taste is similar, although rye finally shows up to the party. Sweetness. Medium bodied. Really enjoyed this beer.
Butters’ cellar blow out tasting. Drank as Tabernash Brewery series bottling. Brown, red on color. Opaque as well. Malty fun beer. Like it. Its not stellar, but a damn good drink. probably could drink only one at a bar though.
Bottle shared at Butter’s Big Cellar Blowout. Opaque burnt orange pour with good ring of tan head. Nose is bready, toasty, and sweet malts. Flavor is sweet caramel malts, apple. Nice and moderately creamy body.
Bottle at Butters Big Cellar Blowout. Pours a khaki head with a copper body. Smells of whole-grain bread, yeast, and caramel. Flavor is caramel, apple, malt, grain bread. Finish is toasty. Some smoke throughout.
Bottle (75 cl). Pours a dark hazy copper coloured liquid with a small foam. Smells of malt and caramell. The taste is very malty and easy to drink. A good lager but not a great beer.
The aroma was not as interesting as expected. A lot of molasses and brown sugar, fruit like cherry, and a grainy cereal aroma, recognizable as rye, but it’s not overwhelming. The appearance is attractive, a hazy ruby red, sizeable white head. The flavor is malty, tangy, the rye is noticeable, there is a residual sweetness. The finish is a competing sweet malty flavor, and some moderate hops. Medium/thick mouthfeel. Decent overall. Not as interesting as expected, but good (a little expensive, too!).
750 in tulip. Reddish brown with lasting head and lace. Toasted caramel spice and fruity cherry maple syrup aroma. Very sweet caramel syrupy sweet with very spicy lingering bitter rye spice. Medium-full body. Bitter fizzy carbonation. Lingering bitter mouth-covering yuck. Medium-full body. Honestly, I can’t put a finger on why I dislike this so much. The extreme spiciness combined with the syrupy fruitiness...well...maybe that’s it.
750 ml, 2007 vintage that gushes from the bottle. Translucent copper-brown with a lasting disc of cream above. Spongy lacing on the glass. Aroma is strong molasses with hints of grain and cocoa. Flavor is molasses tempered with caramel, lightly peppery grain, and some faint grassy hops. Medium-heavy body is smoothly carbonated and none too dry.
Bottle. High and long lasting fluffy white head. Hazy dark red brown body. Distinct roasted rye malt aroma with a bit of caramel as well. Flavor as indicated by the aroma with the addition of a fair amount of hops bitterness. Low carbonation, short aftertaste.
Poured a hazy brown with a huge beige head. Aromas of toasted malt, caramel, and rye spiciness. Flavor is sweet smooth with the abv hidden well. Nicel balance between the sweetness and the spiciness of the rye and hops.