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ABV: 9% IBU: 60 OG: 20 SRM: 27
Released in April
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What you have here is an Oatmeal Rye India-style Brown Ale. Now you might be thinking oatmeal, rye, brown ale, India-style; isn’t that a lot to be going on in just one beer? Well yes, it is. But that is the point. Layers. Flavor elements building on and playing off of preceding elements, like a building wave; a growing crescendum of taste bud temptation; a wall of sound expressed through flavor and channeled toward your mouth. This beer isn’t for everyone. In many ways it is more than just a little weird. It certainly doesn’t fit easily into any category. It isn’t a brown ale, not just a brown ale anyway. It certainly isn’t an IPA. Calling it a rye beer would be selling it way short. In the spirit of all great things that are conceived in the moment, but perfected through passionate repetition it started life as an improvisation and grew from there. And it might not be for you. But if the thought of big spicy rye notes, a wallop of a hop punch, multitudinous layers of caramel, sweet malt and a respectable balancing gravity sound intriguing then you might want to wing it and give Improv a try.

Tasting Notes

Pours a ruddy brown in color with notes of resinous hops backed by toasted grain. Flavor has upfront pine bitterness with nutty notes and rye spiciness. 

Geek Speak

Ratebeer: 97 overall

BeerAdvocate: B+ overall

Medals

2011 Best Florida Beer Championship - Bronze Medal



 

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