“A traditional Roggenbier is like a wheat beer, but using Rye instead of wheat. Spiced bread and clove with a wonderful silky mouthfeel. Bright copper in colour and rich in character, a beer full of flavour. Awarded a Gold Medal at the 2024 Australian International Beer Awards.”

Glassware: Half stein.

Appearance: Deep burnished orange with a light red centre. It only managed a finger of off-white head which quickly forms a collar. Average lacing as we go.

Aroma: KR pulling out all the rare and random styles lately. Loving it. The roggenbier is one we know little about but we’re keen to get into it. First thoughts are quite fruity, yeasty, bready, spicy. It hints at tangy orange citrus and marmalade on toast, subtle yeast esters i.e banana bread, bubblegum and clove. Rye bread, black pepper, red currants and carrot cake as well. Very complex.

Flavour: Interesting flavour fusion. Not sure if it’s for us to be honest. There is good cohesion between the flavours but it’s a tad cloying and grimacing. Somewhat dry, spicy and tangy upfront. Yeasty, bready and quite artificially sweet through the mid. It does dry out again as it finishes with a weird vegetal flavour that lingers.

Mouthfeel: Good consistency, bulbous and well rounded. Flat-ish Co2 and the 7.7% ABV is pretty well buried.

Overall: Not ripping the brewery coz we know KR brew some fantastic stuff but this just ain’t our thing. Not vibing with the flavour profile much at all. We live and learn!