Strawberye from East End Brewing

After spending a lot of time saying "we really need to make a trip to East End Breing Company" since we met the head brewer, Brendan, during Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week, We finally made it to East End Brewing Company. Since it's impossible to walk out without a full growler (or at least it should be), we took home a half gallon of their StrawberRye Ale. We also finally made use of the Lavery half-growler that Brendan gave us. More on that in this post.

Color:

Strawberry blondish, light gold with a heavy amounts of light red. SRM ~10

ABV:

3.5-4.5% (Session ale)

Smell:

Earthy hops with light strawberry and a slight dryness and ryeness

Taste:

This beer was sweet with a really nice strawberry flavor, not that disgusting fake strawberry flavor but a nice fresh flavor. It was also dry in a way and the rye really shined. It wasn't heavily malty or sweet from malts. The hops were gentle and slightly earthy. The light aftertaste was very strawberry and rye. It was almost dry in a way. In general it had a mild carbonation, more likely because it was in a growler. It also had a light medium mouthfeel.

Rating:

This was great it was strawberry flavored without being overly sweet or overly tart. This beer was nicely earthy with a good strawberry flavor. The sweetness of the strawberries really mellowed out during the brewing process to leave a good strawberry flavor but not too much of the sugary taste.