Yeastie Boys Rex Attitude
As of 2018, only brewed in New Zealand and exported to other markets.
They said it couldn’t be done, that it would be undrinkable, that we couldn’t use more than 5% heavy peated malt in a beer. So we carefully considered their advice and decided to try 100% instead. Rex Attitude is inspired by French techno and the whisky of Scotland’s west coast. Like the ’Auld Alliance’ it combines a little Scottish rogue with a dose of French je ne sais quoi. It is, as far as we know, the world’s first beer made from 100% heavy peated distilling malt.
Don’t fucking sniff it and swirl... this is Scottish malt. Drink it.
They said it couldn’t be done, that it would be undrinkable, that we couldn’t use more than 5% heavy peated malt in a beer. So we carefully considered their advice and decided to try 100% instead. Rex Attitude is inspired by French techno and the whisky of Scotland’s west coast. Like the ’Auld Alliance’ it combines a little Scottish rogue with a dose of French je ne sais quoi. It is, as far as we know, the world’s first beer made from 100% heavy peated distilling malt.
Don’t fucking sniff it and swirl... this is Scottish malt. Drink it.
3.2
164 reviews
Wellington, New Zealand
Community reviews
(Thank you!) Sampled draft @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. Orange, creamy white head. Nose is extremely peated chemical, varnish paint. Taste is paint thinner extremely peated chemical, quite a mess, hard to drink, not my thing. Nøgne Ø 100% Peated was better than this one.
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. A almost clear deep golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of peated malt,, burned malt. Taste of peaty malt, burned malt, Kabelbrand.
Bottle 330 ml from HonestBrew. Aromas are smoky with subtle malts. Small white head and hazy dark-golden / light amber body. Taste is quite rich and smoky with malts and some flowery notes. I have never been a fan of smoked ales and this is not an exception, but I can understand that others like it.
Bottle. Golden with a small head and clear appearance. Lovely smoky flavour with maltiness in the background. Medium body. The flavour takes some getting use to but after a while I realised that it was distinctive and enjoyable. A very drinkable beer which I rate highly but i can understand others finding it a bit weird.
Keg at Rake, Borough. Smokebomb atoma. Some wood stain. A murky opaque amber. Thin but creamy white head. Obviously smoky vut there are hints of sweetness. Medium bodied. creamy. A prickle of carb. Long finish - it's smoky, funnily enough. Nice.
330mL bottle from BoozeBud. BB FEB20
Hazy orange body, white head hangs around.
BOOM overwhelming aroma of brutally smoky peat - burn tyres, iodine, seaweed.
Smooth texture, some sweetness & weight calms things down a bit...
It’s actually not as intense as I was expecting - the malt character tones things down a bit, gives a sweet bread crust character to proceedings. Still...it’s bloody smoky - sulfury, iodiney, briney; it’s like a fishing boat caught on fire & you decided to blend it up & drink the juices.
Challenging, intimidating, god it lingers - sort of like an Islay whiskey without the complexity & barrel character. Not sure.
Overwhelmingly peaty from start to finish. Not getting any other flavours coming through or any hints of what kind of underlying beer this might be. I’m normally into smoked beers, but this is too much. Would be a nice-tasting peat in the right balance, too.
330ml bottle at Kill the Cat, Brick Lane. Wow! I love me some peaty whisky and beer to boot. This was really, really intense and unique. I've had loads of peated malt beers, and Isley Barrel Aged ones, but this kicked it up a notch. I can't say it works 100%, but it's a good attempt at something very out there.
330ml bottle
Slight hazy yellow pour with OK head.
Strong Elastoplast aroma with peat reek at the back.
Very strong smoky peat taste which carries through from beginning to end.
Mild bitterness.
Certainly a unique beer if a little overpowering.
Fans of Islay single malt whisky would probably like it.
330ml bottle. Clear, amber colour with small, creamy, minimally lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Sweet-ish, malty, peaty aroma, hints of TCP. Taste is minimally sweet, caramel malty, dry peaty, hints of TCP; oily palate, flat carbonation. Monotonously peaty, insipid. So-so.
7%ABV. smoked golden ale.
Poured out light amber. 10SRM
Nose has strong peat smoke with an oily aroma reminiscent of plasticine, epoxy. There are also earthy, mossy, woodsmoke type aromas that one normally associates with the "peaty" description.
Mouthfeel is juicy. Palate is juicy with a sour fruitiness, the grain palate has watered honey. Hops are bitter and woody, almost noble in nature, taste like Saaz hops in a Czech pils.
A very well built beer with love and a ton of resources, but the peat just didn’t work with the honey-like malt palate. That amount of peat character has to evaporate off the palate in fairly quick succession to be appreciated and tolerated. This one just hangs around like a ball of indigestible plasticine in my mouth.
33cl bottle at home. Clear orange / amber with a small slightly off-white head. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Heavy smoke with quite some sweetness and subtle bitterness. Peated malts, apricot and tar. Weird but nice.
What The!! Wow that was different, 100% peated malt. If you like smoked beers try this it is an adventure, it’s like that aftermath of a bush fire! I enjoyed the earthy heavily malted experience, but could only drink 1.
330 ml bottle. BB Jun/19. Thanks Kiwi-Timo!
Clear deep golden amber color with a tiny off-white head.
Tar, peat, smoke, tervaleijona and more peat in the aroma.
The flavor is peat, malt, smoke and tervaleijona. Not something you wanna drink everyday and a lot. Peat juice.
33 cl bottle @ Timo A. BBE 06/2019.
Pours clear golden color with a small head. Very strong peat aroma, smoky, earthy notes too, mild malty tones and spices. Flavor is sweet malty, caramel, tar, peat and subtle spice notes. A bit aggressive with the peat at first but in the end very nice.
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Draft 0.15l at BierProeflokaal In De Wildeman Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 16.11.2016. Pour it hazy orange color with small white head. Aroma smoked with herbal notes, maybe too much smoked for my opinion. Taste first sip only smokey feel, after few sips starts to become lemony sweet smoked like 7up or sprite, strange, funky, smoked finish, skunky, light body, sticky, average carbonation, bitter and smoked finish.
Intense smoke, burnt wood, oak. Clear gold, medium, creamy, white head. Light bitter. Burnt flavours, savoury, smoked bacon, light molasses, pale malts, medium carbonation. Quite an extreme Smoked, quite a bit too much in the aroma, but quite like the palate. Bottle from Independent Spirit, Bath
330ml bottle. It’s extremely smokey, with lots of meatiness too. Deserves points for novelty, if not for particularly nice beer.
330ml bottle. Pours a super clear mild gold with slight white head. Huge peaty nose with smoke and hints of sweeter malt hidden away. Light front with hints of smoke that develop into a massive pleated backbone. If you like peated whisky you will likely love this beer.
Bottle shared with Jmgreenuk at Taps Mont Kiara. Very hazy orange with a medium white head. Aroma of massive peat completely overpowering light notes of malt, fruits and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Light medium bodied with light carbonation.
It really is peaty aroma. Much aroma. Pour is very pale, head there was none. All aroma Then the taste, of wet wood mostly, wet burnt wood.
8th September 2015
Lightly hazy gold beer, tidy cream colour head. Palate is dry and minerally crisp. Massive overwhelming band aids and TCP, intense. It’s starts to burn. Some fruits buried deep but frankly - who cares? One dimensional peat bomb. Just because you can, don’t mean you should. Awful.
Bottle from Drink in Hebden Bridge. Pours golden with a fading white head. Big pet smoke aroma. The taste starts with hints of citrus and spice before masses of peaty smoke. An interesting, if not altogether attempt at something a bit different.
Bottle BBE: Jan ’16. Well-chilled. Pours cloudy golden with floaters and a small, tight white head with some patchiness. Extremely high intensity aromas of peat smoke. Highly medicinal, like laphroaig, with a strong meaty smell. Some citrus hops just about make themselves heard through the smoke. Pungent. This slightly dulls the taste buds, but there is a perceptible sweetness and a medium bitterness. There is some body, maybe medium, and a dry woody texture. Carbonation is bang on, about average, and not surprisingly the peat smoke lingers in the finish. Overall this is obviously pretty one-dimensional, but it’s a worthwhile experiment and actually an enjoyable beer.
330ml bottle. Pours a clear orange/gold. Aroma is peat, wood smoke and little else but not in a bad way. Taste is heavily smoked peat. Really nice and smooth. Hoppy at first.
Bottle. Clear, orange, frothy, white foam, medium bitterness, medium body, oily feel, soft carbonation, & bitter finish.
Bottle; Ale House; Chelmsford. 21st March 2015
Iodine aroma, peat, TSP. Golden pilsner base. Very clean. Really interesting use of whisky casks. Finish is alcohol and fruits. It’s fascinating. Just not a fan of this but it is well-made.
Golden Ale, supersmoky - like drinking a BBQ. Amazing Discovery - Love it. Rare find though
Bottle at home. Pours hazy pale yellow, nose is peaty, medicine, light fruit, taste is similar, dry, a little thin.
Big peat smoke aroma that to me is like band aids. Flavor redeems things with a more scotch whiskey character.