Rogue Brutal IPA

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Newport, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

Bottle. Pours an amber body with an off white head. Caramel malts, some light nuttiness, and then its all sorts of hoppy bad-ass-ness. Grapefruit highlights strong tanic tea notes, bitter hop resins, and a nice kick to the face.

Bottle from Bellingers Jet Garage, Grove, nr Wantage, Oxon, consumed 22-07-09 Pours hazy amber with white head. Aroma is citrussy and the taste is a sweet honeylike citrus, maltiness is really good and tempers the hops, there is a little warmth from the alcohol and some spice. good stuff. A10 A3 F7 P3 Ov15 3.7

Dig the hazy appearance, nice glowing murky orange-gold. The nose is very hoppy, very fruity (lychees, grapefruit) and piney nose. The flavour is quite sweet at the start, very hoppy, with a citric bitter finish, as i've come to expect in Americaan bitters/IPA's/Pale ales, Out of the the Rogue beers i've had this is one of my favourites, really fresh and summery, had this sitting in my dads backyard in the sun.

I have had ths a number of times but forgot to rate it...here goes! Pours an cloudy amberish color. head is hoppy and some malt too. Hops hit you pretty hard, but this isn’t the most amazing IPA by any stretch. I wish the body were fuller and richer. Still pretty good though.

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2005 Draught @ Kahootz Pub & Eatery, Meridian, ID:
Gold orange color, nice puffy white head. Nose of ripe apricot and grassy hops, extremely rich malts. Very herbal and earthy. Malty caramel body, not too sweet, just the right amount of hops. The body is large but maintains drinkabliliy. This is a tasty beer, wonder why I didn’t like it much before. Why does it seem that just since it says bitter in the name it means that it’s bitter? It’s a brutal (meaning strong) bitter (meaning the lightly hopped british style). This is lighter hopped than most IPAs.
Updated on 05/23/05. Old Rating: 3.1

UPDATED: OCT 21, 2007 October 2007. Bottle. Orange body with a small white head. Moderate hoppy aroma, odd earthy note to the hops. Decent amount of bitterness throughout, light citrus, earthy resin. Average palate. Meh. Just ok. 7/3/7/3/14-15 - 3.5 <P>October 2006. 12oz bottle from Bishops Cellar in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Amber body, with a generous fluffy beige head and lacing. Aroma of light, muted hops, grass, and a light hint of bile up front that seems very out of place gives way to muted caramel malt as it warms a bit. Pleasant citrus - grapefruit in the flavour seems restrained, light round fruitiness lingers. Malt is a tertiary player. Average palate. Very unassertive, this was a disappointing re-rate. Am hoping perhaps the bottle was showing its age, and will try another one when given the opportunity. 6/4/6/3/13 - 3.2 <P> April 2002. Very hoppy and bitter. Similar to HopDevil in the degree of bitterness. Tasty if you like a bitter beer. 7/4/8/4/16 - 3.9

Yes indeed. Hazy amber body with a thick head that layed the glass with "lace" as the drinking went on. This is a hophead’s vision of an ESB - serious herbal, floral, and citric hops in (and up) the nose. There is a sweet caramel scent somewhere beneath it all. The caramel malt remains as a firm backbone supporting the hop bitterness heaped upon it. As fellow rater Olivier_MTL so aptly expresses it, "Amertume prononcée en finale semblant marginalement plus élevé que le taux d’IBU indiqué." (My apologies. I couldn’t resist quoting his prior rating although I had scant idea what he was saying.) It is brutally bitter (for a bitter) in the finish, and I appreciate that.

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Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Somewhat hazy orange color, small head. Citrus aroma, creamy, malty, grassy, some bready notes. Hoppy flavor, some swimmingpool notes. Creamy, citrus. I had this as Rogue Brutal IPA, cant really see why they change the name between beerstyles...