Rogue Dead Guy Ale

Bottle. Pours a beautiful deep amber with a white head that doesn’t last too long but leaves good lacing. The aroma is quite light but the taste is lovely and complex. The hops stand out, as with a lot of Rogue ales, but there are subtle hints of honey, oak and citrus. Great label too.

Pale amber, off white head. Smelled so fine; very malty, molasses, burnt honey, bread crust. To me this tasted like the smell of a proper sour-dough mother, with a grassy afternote. It was very well balanced, easy going, could drink alot of this. Very interesting.

12oz bottle:: poured orange with nice head and good carbination. Smelled of hops with a brown sugur, carmel malt smell. Nice smooth flavor with slightly bitter end. The carmel flavors also lasts. Pretty good.

pours up with a thick foamy white head that dissipates over a couple minutes. pure amber colour with light to moderate carbonation. aroma is malty with some grassy hops and a touch of bready yeast. tatse really follows through with the hoppiness. accents of grassy, floral hops throughout the mid palate and providing the bitter on the back. malts provide a sweetness throughout, but are unbalanced with respect to the hops. a great, widely available session ale!

(bottle). Amber color with light cloudiness. Medium white head. Light malt and hop aromas. Sweet malt and hop (perfume) flavors. Avg duration. Smooth finish with light bitterness. Slick texture. Moderate carbonation. Spare lacing.

bottled, nice medium copper pour with mod/high carbonation with thick white head, floral hop aroma with the slightest malt back ground, medium body with full hop flavors and higher then expected bitters with hidden sweet malt notes, residual hop acids on palate

At Oregon Brewer’s Festival 2009 this was one of my top 3 favorites - about a 4.9. I’d tried it several year’s ago in a bottle and thought it was about a 3 to 3.5. Then more recently I tried it on tap at Rogue’s location in the Pearl District and it tasted horrible (like a bad Pabst Blue Ribbon wannabe) - 1.0 to 1.5 (nothing at all similar to the way it tasted at the brewfest). My advice on this one is to only buy it on tap & always insist on a sample first!

Bouteille @ SAQ, cuivrée rouge sur le bord de brun. Gazéification médium, le col tiens bien le verre et dure longtemps. Des notes de caramel, une rondeur invitante, des saveurs intéressantes de houblon viennent envelopper le tout.