CIVIL LIFE™ BREWING COMPANY
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Rye Pale Ale- GABF Gold Medal Winner 2014

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Backstory:  The Rye was one of the three beers we opened the pub with and well, it by all means has a massive following.  In the year 2014, it's the beer that put Civil Life on the map when we won a GABF Gold with it. That's Dylan and Brandon, our venerable brewers at the time, accepting the award.  Not pictured is our co-founder Mike, who contributed to the recipe.  We were exceptionally honored to be recognized among the nations top brewers and also to bring a nice medal back home to St. Louis where we have a most incredible beer scene.  The medal now hangs in our pub on the neck of a small stuffed animal moose that a customer gave us.  Not bad at all for the first time we ever entered a brewing contest. Hopefully it isn't our last medal!
-Jake Hafner, Captain of The Barley Ship


This isn't a little Pale Ale and it isn't the biggest of Pale Ales but it's our Pale Ale and it's big but grounded by a strong malt backbone. Familiar pale ale traits plus rich graininess, subtle spice and crisp mouthfeel from the rye, lots of caramel, black pepper, pine cones, and grapefruit zest with a well-rounded bittersweet finish. Pick it up and run with it, act like you stole it... as long as you paid for it we don't care.  

For those desiring more details:
ABV: 4.5%
IBU: 66
COLOUR: clear deep amber with fluffy white foam and lace
BJCP STYLE: 21B. Specialty: Rye IPA? It’s basically 18B. American Pale Ale + rye, but there’s not an exact category for that. 
INGREDIENTS: English Golden Promise and Maris Otter pale malts, caramel malt, ≈20% malted and unmalted rye, American C-hops and yeast

Rye Pale Blog Post
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Closed Mondays
​Tues-Thur  4 pm to 11 pm
Friday 12 pm to 11 pm
Saturday 11 am to 11 pm

Sunday's 11 am to 9 pm (Tacos only until November when Soup Sunday returns)

CASH ONLY. NO PHONE NUMBER.  
  • ​No Outside Food or Drink please.  
  • Unfortunately, we are unable to handle groups over 12 and ANY BUS or Limo. It's a pub not the Oscars. 
  •  We have deemed ourselves ill-equipped to handle mean people.
  • We have no interest in over-serving and serving the over-served.  But would love to see you for your first pint or two. 
  • We are however great at handling kind, good hearted people who appreciate good beer and the fellowship of humans.  We were scored A+++++ in this category by real live humans in our latest inter-galactic review. 
  • We'll pour you a sample of any beer we have. We'll treat you well and hopefully you'll come back.
The Civil Life Brewing Co. 3714 Holt Ave. St. Louis, Mo 63116 Planet Earth 
  • PUB
    • BEER ON DRAUGHT >
      • Wit Beer
      • German Wheat
      • Pink Boots Table Beer
      • Kolsch-Style Ale
      • Pale Ale
      • Rye Pale Ale GABF Gold 2014
      • The Angel and the Sword Ale
      • British Mild
      • American Brown Ale
      • Porter
      • Milk Stout
      • Extra Stout
      • BEERS ON DECK!! >
        • STL Best Ale
        • India Pale Ale
        • Lager
        • Dortmunder Lager
        • Czech Pilsner
        • Amsterdam Tavern Goal!den Ale
      • Beers on Vacation >
        • #Carlbock Lager
        • Altbier
        • American ESB
        • American Pale Ale
        • American Session Ale
        • "Bee Civil" Honey Wheat Beer
        • Belgian Dubbel
        • Belgian Table Beer
        • BIG BEER SERIES "BIG AMERICAN STOUT"
        • BIG BEER SERIES Big Belgian Blonde
        • BIG BEER SERIES "BIG YEAR BROWN"
        • BIG BEER SERIES "GORDIAN KNOT BOCK"
        • BIG BEER SERIES Scottish "Wee Bit" Heavy
        • Black Ale
        • Black Lager
        • British Bitter (English Pale Ale)
        • Burton-on-Holt
        • Circle 7 American Wheat Beer
        • Civil Common
        • Cream Ale
        • Dresselsbier "Hoppy Wheat"
        • Dry Hop Red Ale
        • English IPA
        • English Summer Ale
        • Extra Special Bitter (ESB)
        • German Pilsner
        • Guerrilla Street Blonde Ale
        • Merchant Ship IPA
        • Munich Dunkel Lager
        • Northern English Brown
        • Oatmeal Brown Ale
        • Oatmeal Stout
        • Oktoberfest
        • Ordinary Bitter Ale
        • Premium Bitter
        • Proper Pint
        • Ruby Mild
        • Rye Stout
        • Scottish Ale
        • Scottish Export Ale
        • Scottish Style "70 Shilling"
        • Stevie's 5 Star Amber
        • "The Great Hencini" Southern English Brown
        • "The Mentor" English Golden Rye
        • UK IPA
        • Vienna Lager
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