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Summer Rye
Mayflower Brewing Company
- From:
- Mayflower Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Rye Beer
Ranked #76 - ABV:
- 3.8%
- Score:
- 81
Ranked #25,853 - Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 15.82%
- Reviews:
- 68
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 01, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 25, 2009
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 30
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Ratings by OtherShoe2:
Reviewed by OtherShoe2 from Massachusetts
3.14/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.14/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Pours hazy yellow with no head and no bubbles and no lacing. Ummm....
Smells of sweet wheat and some yeast. Not much else, but it is inviting -- I can be generous in the rating here.
A wheat beer with some spice and bite. First sip and you like it, and then you see it for what it is -- a mess. Wheat at the start, sweet and tasty, then bitterness, peach pit-like. Maybe some white pepper, a touch of sourness, but not lemon, more like Berliner-weisse, but not in a good way. Ugh...I don't know. Long bitter aspirin-like finish. Almost too dry. Really glad I only got a single.
Lighter-bodied, some prickly carbonation. They got this spot-on.
Overall, not great. Maybe with some spicy food, but I could never have two of these in succession. The bitter edge in this one just sucks the life out of the beer. I actually think my ratings (flavor-wise), might be too generous. if you want to drink local and support the little guy, try this. If not, I certainly would not trade for this.
May 22, 2010Smells of sweet wheat and some yeast. Not much else, but it is inviting -- I can be generous in the rating here.
A wheat beer with some spice and bite. First sip and you like it, and then you see it for what it is -- a mess. Wheat at the start, sweet and tasty, then bitterness, peach pit-like. Maybe some white pepper, a touch of sourness, but not lemon, more like Berliner-weisse, but not in a good way. Ugh...I don't know. Long bitter aspirin-like finish. Almost too dry. Really glad I only got a single.
Lighter-bodied, some prickly carbonation. They got this spot-on.
Overall, not great. Maybe with some spicy food, but I could never have two of these in succession. The bitter edge in this one just sucks the life out of the beer. I actually think my ratings (flavor-wise), might be too generous. if you want to drink local and support the little guy, try this. If not, I certainly would not trade for this.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by BodiesLexus from New York
3.67/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Drank a few bottles of this, before deciding to pour one.
Hmm. It's very white. It's a wit-rye, if you will.
Table-beer strength, reasonable pepper and white wine notes for such a sessionable offering.
Drinks nicely, but lack of depth kind of leaves it wanting -- which I admit can be a good thing. But the base note is hard to find .... I'm left with watery pale wit that has a few interesting notes jumping out. Nice beer for 90 and humid, which it is right now.
Sep 05, 2015Hmm. It's very white. It's a wit-rye, if you will.
Table-beer strength, reasonable pepper and white wine notes for such a sessionable offering.
Drinks nicely, but lack of depth kind of leaves it wanting -- which I admit can be a good thing. But the base note is hard to find .... I'm left with watery pale wit that has a few interesting notes jumping out. Nice beer for 90 and humid, which it is right now.
Reviewed by nosho from Massachusetts
2.28/5 rDev -35.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 2
2.28/5 rDev -35.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 2
Normally I find Mayflower's offerings to be reliably good, with great character. This one, I'm afraid, strikes me as featureless. A pale blond that's a little too pale, almost tasteless, faint nose. The feel is crisp - on a hot day this will have a refreshing feel, but to me, it has no more satisfaction than a bottle of fizzy water.
Aug 22, 2015Reviewed by lambpasty from New Hampshire
4.23/5 rDev +19.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +19.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
On draft at the Meadhall in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
A - Faint yellow with moderate carbonation and a fluffy white 1-finger head.
S - light wheat, floral hops and peppery rye, some notes of citrus rind and brown grass.
T- follows the nose exactly. Really fantastic.
M- light but not watery, and extremely refreshing. Exactly what I want in a session beer.
Overall this is one of the best session ales I've had and at 3.7% really fits the definition. An excellent summer brew.
Jul 21, 2015A - Faint yellow with moderate carbonation and a fluffy white 1-finger head.
S - light wheat, floral hops and peppery rye, some notes of citrus rind and brown grass.
T- follows the nose exactly. Really fantastic.
M- light but not watery, and extremely refreshing. Exactly what I want in a session beer.
Overall this is one of the best session ales I've had and at 3.7% really fits the definition. An excellent summer brew.
Reviewed by farrago from New Jersey
2.89/5 rDev -18.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.89/5 rDev -18.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Bleached white, uneven surface with many larger bubbles forming random peaks, crests a little over one finger, holds on well enough, the lacing forms as a thin, broad sheet which easily slides back down into the liquid below. The liquid itself is as pale as imaginable, looks like yellow tap water, mild translucency, one big storm of large bubbles rise swiftly upwards. The nose comes across as somewhat “skeletal” as in gaunt and not much happening, floral with chamomile and citrus blossom notes, unprocessed grains, chief most rye, black peppercorns, metallic accents, any fruit to be had mainly green grapes, apples and apricot pits, has sufficient weight to persist in the nostrils. Light-bodied, the lack of flavor is evident from the start making it feel even more dilute. Iron flecks, lemon peels, water crackers, pepper, used tea bags, here does not have the level of florality found in the nose. The carbonation is muscular and round in character, not so much tingly or scrubbing. Muddled white pit fruits and apples. Almost has to have a clean finish as there’s not enough there to make a mess with.
Jul 16, 2015
Summer Rye from Mayflower Brewing Company
Beer rating:
81 out of
100 with
200 ratings
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