Dark Horse Rod

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Marshall, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Tap at Ashley’s during Ann Arbor Brew Week Pub Crawl. Poured a dark brown (almost black) with an khaki head. Aroma consisted of dark fruits with malty undertone. There was also the slightest presence of spices and flora. Flavor began with sweet malty notes with a slight sour note but becomes darker with a caramel flavor entering and a slight bitterness.

Draft at Craft Ale. Poured dark brownish coppery with nose of caramel malt, earthy hops. Tasted like a vienna with caramel and hops, medium palate heft, not terribly complex, and I got very little in the herb arena here. An aphrodisiac beer named Rod. Cute. Do it the right way and call it Rock Hard Purple-Helmeted Invader next year.

From tap at Sunset Grill. Pours hazy orange to brown with a small white head. Aroma is toasted caramelish and slight spiced. Bitter, toasted malty and caramelish flavoured. Dry and bitter to spiced finish.

Deep amber pour creamy beige head sticky lacing .... aroma was very faint of caramel malts and little earthy .... taste is caramel malts and creamy little toasted and slightly spicy/herbal and earthy with a light spicy hoppy dry finish the abv is hidden well ... not bad

Lightly hazy dark ruby, minimal head, no lacing... malty lightly herbal aroma, not very hoppy, has a light fruitiness... herbal/spicy, malty, lightly lively, ok flavor, but this has almost a lightly carbonated herbal tea quality to it...

A hazed dark amber ale with a thin lacing mocha head. In aroma, sweet butterscotch with fruity esters, light dark fruit notes, some woody notes. In mouth, a sweet vanilla fudge, creamy maple, not bad. On tap at Sunset Grill, Sept. 11 2011.

On cask at the Tipsy Cow. Hazy reddish amber with next to no head. Aroma is oddly spiced with some sweet malt behind it – mild and a touch of hops. Taste is pretty mild with some herbal spices, malt and light hops. As for the aphrodisiac qualities, perhaps I had a few too many that night, but I was not a wood-aged specimen.

On tap at the French Laundry. Looked and smelled like a typical Amber, but the taste had an herbal funkiness that appealed to me. More importantly however, it worked as an aphrodisiac - my wife and I did it twice (once together)! Thanks Dark Horse!

On tap; pour is murky dark brown/amber. Its heavily carbonated with an off white head that does retain well; sticky lacing in this glass. The nose is spicy, floral, herbal, with a bit of caramel. This brew is bitter, slightly sweet, the flavor profile seems a bit messy, yet it still does feel ok to me. I wont sit here and pretend like I found passion flower here, but you get the general herbal, floral elements combined with a simple red.

Draft @ Dark Horse, hazy mahogany w/ thin head, lightly herbal aroma, ruddy malt flavor w/ even bitterness throughout

At the brewery during RBSG 2010. The first sips were used to cleanse my mouth after a glass of Plead the 5th. Light red brew with a light tan head and wispy lacing. Tasty stuff and I want to stay here and drink myself into oblivion. The aroma is cool (just read the description of this beer and there’s a bunch of weird things tossed in - might explain the 7 hour raging hard on I had..) Plenty of citrus, touch earthy, floral hops, caramel and sweet lemon and mysterious spices that are mild. Tasty of course. Great taste. Light pine, bottom end sweetness, candy, loads of sweet citrus, red candy, dark fruits and the tastiest grapefruit ever. Light malts and stellar hops. Kyle loved sucking my Rod back.