UPDATED: NOV 12, 2021 Bottle from Clapton Craft. Deep red mahogany pour, off-white head. Aroma is herbaceous hop, pine, caramel. Taste is classic west coast IPA with a rye twist, so toffee apple, sweet sticky caramel, black peppery esters, brown bread, woody pine, cedar. The finish is dry and substantially bitter, with some toasted brown bread notes. Mouthfeel is medium and creamy. A beautifully well put-together beer, a masterpiece of a rye ale.

UPDATED: JUN 9, 2021 Keg at lost in leith. Pours clear ruby, nose is burnt toffee, caramel, pine, taste is similar, peppery, dry.

UPDATED: MAY 28, 2021 On tap at The Made Inn Ashford Cloudy red brown russet colour. lasting beige head. some red berry flavour. strawberry jam flavour. some dryness on finish. some spice no doubt. dry finish. Good rye jam beer. quite dry. OK.

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2021 Bottle from Cornelius. Pours deep amber. Nose is velvety caramel with resin and red fruits, light bitter and sweetish. Tastes bitter caramel, light spices, velvety smooth mouthfeel, light resin and citrus. Very nice, great mouthfeel and flavours especially given rather low abv.

UPDATED: MAY 20, 2021 Keg at The Rusty Bucket, Eltham. Blood orange pour with a white head. Nose is orchard fruit, toffee apple, strawberry sherbet, parma violets. Taste is bitter malts, touch of red fruit, barley sugar. Bitter malty finish.

UPDATED: APR 29, 2021 Bottle from Cork & Cask. Hazy amber body with a beige head that holds well. Fine carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of rust and Swiss roll. Flavour of caramel and biscuit. Medium body with a frothy mouthfeel. Soft fizz. A lovely beery beer.

UPDATED: APR 23, 2021 Bottle. Can’t recall where from. Bit of a murky, deep amber colour. Lovely Kernel swede. Nose has spicy rye. Some tinned strawberry. Bit of charred citrus. Taste has a soft strawberry sweetness first off, turning punchy, resinous bitter. Light to medium body is fairly oily. Fine carbonation. Lingering bitterness to finish. Decent.

UPDATED: MAY 2, 2021 The Kernel Half Brick Red Rye Ale (Simcoe Centennial), 4.6% 500ml bottled one month ago to the day. Not much on the nose. Rosewater toffee. Taste... The hops and the rye are both adding a spiciness that integrates nicely. Everything is harmonious and the hops complement perfectly giving a rye-pine-salt-rosewater impression. The grassiness of the Simcoe and the toffee-orange of the centennial with the rye are simply a very well thought out combination. Not a big beer, in defiance of the trend.  It's just so well put together - an understated and classy number. A great beer. (6-4-10-5-16=4.1)

UPDATED: APR 23, 2021 Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from Bottle Apostle, South Hackney. Pours lightly hazed reddish-bronze with a fluffy, off-white head. Lightly sweet with nice restrained piney character, dried caramel, toasted malts, some earthy-leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Bitter finish, more piney notes, orange rind, sun-kissed grains, toast, earth. Outrageously drinkable.

UPDATED: APR 17, 2021 500ml bottle from Ken's, enjoyed watching the cup semi-final. Pours a rusty red with a nice off-white foam that holds excellently - nice looking beer. Nose is dark caramel, some woody hops, something slightly buttermilky in it. Taste is medium malt sweetness, woody bitterness and a dry rye finish. Soft carbonation, medium body, lingering woody hops. Decent but nothing special.