Rogue Brewer

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Black IPA
Newport, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

Dark brown colo with light brown head. Aroma is of dark roasted malts and bitter hops. Taste is of dark malts with lots of bitter grassy hops. Ok mouthfeel, a little on the thin side.

Draft. The beer pours to a deep garnet colored body with a khaki head. The aroma was hoppy and bitter. The flavor was masked by the intense bitterness. Kinda hard to drink 2 of these. Pine hops, grapefruit, some sort of dark fruits. Extremely bitter. So much so, that it was not necessarily enjoyable.

Draft at Cock & Bull, FL. Poured hazy brown color with an average frothy white head that lasted with excellent lacing. Heavy caramel sour citrus hoppy aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture. Medium bitter flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of long duration. This is a standout beer.

(tap at Gingerman) Dark burgundy body with a small tan head. That’s one intense beer. The aroma is really campfire-ish with roasted wood and earthy hops. Vigourous taste with cruncy toasted malts, earthy hops, spicy hops, lots of caramel, pine tree, wild berries. As tasty as is sounds. Body of a dark American Ale with the bitterness of a good IPA. Excellent Rogue’s Brewer Rogue Brewer.

Draft from DRE. Hazy deep brownish pour with aroma of hops, caramel, brown sugary malt, some tropical and citrus fruit, and slight nuts. Tastes hoppy, with a dense malt backbone, and some brown sugary spicey and nutty berry hints in the finish.

UPDATED: SEP 22, 2007 Draft. This seemed to taste like the majority of rogue beers... bitter hop flavor. Dark brown with good lacing. Hoppy aroma.

UPDATED: SEP 12, 2010 Any first impressions?
-A veil of foam sits atop the cloudy brown gown.
-Soaring C-hop fruitiness belittles the toasted maltiness.
-The hop kaleidoscope expands into scrumptious leafy, herbal, grapefruity realms, as the tastebuds barely care to notice the delicate roastiness underneath.
-The svelte maltiness and active carbonation create an energetic mouthfeel.

What if you dig deeper?
-Blackberries are found within a complex fruit presence.
-A muscular herbal, wooden, resinous hop bitterness is lengthening pleasure.
-For all that’s going on, this is surprisingly clean all the way through.
-The aroma’s not as complex as the flavor profile, I must say, but this remains a very well-hopped Black IPA, a new trend/style I tend to love when well-done such as this one, or The Alchemist’s El Jefe, for example.
-That resinous, coniferous bitterness might overwhelm after a few sips.

From the bottle and on tap at Gingerman, Manhattan.

UPDATED: AUG 14, 2007 On tap @ the Mellow Mushroom in Tampa. Poured hazy dark brown with tan head. The aroma has some 120L crystal malts. But the main component was the hops. I smell pine needles, grass and grapefruit hoppiness. The taste was full grapefruit and pine hop bitterness accompanied by some semi sweet roasted maltiness (something like 90 or 120L) and caramel. It actually tastes just a bit like Stone’s ABA. For me that is most welcomed. Very nice brew leaving a pleasant hop bitterness behind in the aftertaste.

300th rated beer for me, eh. I think I’ll have another beer.