Rogue Dead Guy Ale

Bottle. Poured amber almost orange in color with a small off white head that diminished quickley. The aroma was that of toasted caramel malts and citrus with a nice hoppy scent. Tasted of citus, lemon I think with a full flavor of hops. Mouthfeel was creamy an medium bodied with a nice hoppy aftertaste that lasted qiute a while. Overall a really tasty ale.

Bottled 355ml from crackedkettle.com. Hazy copper beer with a small light beige head. Malty aroma with hints of raisin, fennel, caramel, cherry, walnut, marshmallows, wood, berries and faint bittering hops. Sweet malt accentuated taste. Full bodied. A lot of fennel, raisin, walnut, berries and caramel showing up. Decent bitterness. Not much lacework. Long malty finish where some bittering hops sneak in. A nice beer.

Draft. Pours clear amber with no head (for my pour anyway- I’m not sure how so many others are getting such a thick head on this one). Aroma of hops, toffee, malt. Flavor is busy, with hops, toffee, malt, wheat, citrus, and spice, and both bitter and sweet. Medium body. A lot of fun to drink because it has a lot going on.

Light, hazy amber, big frothy beige head with good retention. The pale malt aroma has an unmistakable edge of peanut butter, interesting but not really desirable to me. Flavors are a strongly floral on top of a big, honey-bread dough-nougat malty mess. Other contributing flavors are nut, mandarin orange, dust, and a bit of papery oxidation at the end. There’s a lot of flavor going on, but it doesn’t work together for me. Full bodied, somewhat sticky mouthfeel.

(35.5cl bottle) Hazy, deep golden colour with a thick off-white foamy head. Sweet and bready cara-malty aroma with a distinctive touch of biscuits and butterscotch. Sweet flavour, medium to full bodied with a soft mouthfeel. Robust pale and cara-malty base with liquid biscuits; sweet and malt-accented finish with a whiff of herbal and resiny hops. Hearty pale Bock, just a tad on the sweet side (11.VIII.09).

This is a tasty, yet bitter beer. I’m not much for overly bitter beers, so I likely wouldn’t enjoy having more than one of these at a time. It was fairly tasty though.

A nicely complex ale. Poured a reddish gold with a foamy head, which faded in minutes. Smelled of sweet malts. The taste was dynamic, ringing with traces of honey, molasses, and bread. Very smooth with a mildly yeasty afteraste. I enjoyed drinking this beer very much.

A very pleasant beer, malty but balanced. Gorgeous deep amber color. Honestly, this page is the first time I thought of it as maibock; I’d always thought of it as a slightly underhopped pale ale.