Rogue Double Dead Guy Ale

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: American Strong Ale
Newport, Oregon USA

Pours out as expected - small but thick light tan head that lives on the rim but gives lots of minute spotty lacing, clear deep amber with red hues. The aroma is mainly of apricots or peaches, some caramel & biscuit (which is covered up to a point by the fruity hops), and something that reminds me of a white, fluffy cake. The taste is pretty decent but, once again, just another hop laden beer - it gets old after awhile. There are some pine hops and some spicy or hot flavor that I should just attribute to the 9%. Goes down fairly smooth but I cannot get around the wallop of bitterness (yay!!!) which would be better without the overall thickness found in my glass. OK carbonation, ends with permanent bitterness which is totally enjoyable! A bit too much alcohol showing here.... but that might just be me trying to pretend that I just didn’t drink the entire bottle in 25 minutes. Very drinkable but, at least in this marketplace, highly overpriced. Being realistic, this is just another faceless beer with a wack of ingredients mixed together for the soul purpose of making an imperial version of something else. Bring on yet another day of the zombification of me at work.

Location: 22 oz bottle from Norm’s, late summer or early fall of ’08 Overall Impression: I really enjoyed this one. I knew that I probably would as I am a big fan of the regular Dead Guy. I don’t have a ton of notes on this rating, but it is a really good brew...

Yum, smells of caramel, alcohol, hops. Pours burnt hazy gold with thin off-white head, good lacing. Taste is of Caramel, decent malt-hop balance. Very good beer for a gift (this was for my father). Love the bottle.

750ml bottle. Aroma brings much malt, nuts, cola and some smoke. Flavor is very malty. Also toffee, nuts and caramel. Palate is big. Overall I think this one is to sweet and it has a to "sticky" palate.

Bottle: Clear red colour, with a huge head. Aroma is werry malty and ,has lots of choclate/caramellynes, and a dry hopy nose. Flavor had lots of malts,caramelly mouth feeling, medium body! and medium malty alcy/bitter finish. I Like this mix of taste! great beer!

Draft at Annie Bailey’s, Lancaster PA...much better than Dead Guy, which I don’t think I’d rate as hight now (something about the apricot flavor throws me off, similar to Bell’s Pale Ale which I did rate much lower)...but Double Dead Guy pours a deeper amber, more robust body and flavor...not as much on the apricot but more of an orange/tangerine citrus flavor...I assumed the ABV would be higher but you cannot taste the 9.5...really good.

TAP: deep amber pour, minimal head. Caramel & hop on the nose, the body wasn’t extremely robust, taste was caramel, citrus/fruit, plenty of hop kick, and a loooooong bitter finish - which is driving my rating down, because that’s just not my thing. A little more malt would be nice.

Large Bottle (2008 label). Pours amber with a slight head. Very little alcohol taste for such a high abv. Very drinkable.