Rye beer
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Rye beer refers to any beer in which rye (generally malted) is substituted for some portion of the barley malt.
One example of this is roggenbier which is a specialty beer produced with up to sixty percent rye malt. The style originated in Bavaria, in southern Germany and is brewed with the same type of yeast as a German hefeweizen resulting in a similar light, dry, spicy profile. Some consider it to be essentially a dunkelweizen that uses rye instead of wheat in addition to the barley[1]. Recently, some American craft breweries have picked up the style and produced similar beers.
In the United States another style of rye beer is being developed by homebrewers and microbrewers. This style differs from the German version in that they have a much less estery yeast profile, the result of the use of American and British ale yeasts (or even lager yeasts in some cases). [2] In some examples, the hop presence is pushed to the point where they resemble American India pale ales.
Finnish sahti is another style of rye beer, produced by brewing rye with juniper berries and wild yeast.
[edit] Examples
[edit] Roggenbier
- Bürgerbräu Wolnzacher Roggenbier
- Paulaner Roggen
[edit] American Rye
- Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye Ale
- Founders Red's Rye
