Rogue FestiveAle

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Saison
Newport, Oregon USA

Serve in Tulip

Bottle. A very murky, orange/gold color. A slighly fruity & yeasty aroma. Good head. Taste is......interesting. I think maybe there are too many things competing with one another is the flavor. No real balance. Not a bad beer, but not what I would have expected from Rogue.

Hazy orange with white head. Good citrus aroma and flavor. Sweet as well with a very fruity finish. Smooth drink but not great.

Bottle. Pours hazy orange\gold with a large off-white head. Aroma of citrus, sweet malts, spices, and fruit. Flavor is heavily carbonated, sweet, spicey, white a fruity finish. Not bad, but disappointing for rogue.

This may or may not have been what I had given Rogue’s rather idiotic (IMO) habit of assigning a bucket full of names to each beer they brew. It was called Rogue Anniversary Saison on the menu at RFD and was served draft. Minimal white head, amber with yellow highlights. Aroma was very minimnal, slighly sweet with only faint whisps of yeast. Not like any Saison I have ever had. The flavor was an equal dissapointment, sweet with banana and some faint yeastiness. Medium full palate. Nto my cup o’ tea.

A bit of a letdown. To be honest, it smells pretty good, mild citrus, mild funk, some hop spritz, a tad dusty, very much what I expect from a saison. Flavor is a trainwreck, though. It is just too much of everything without enough (or any) balance. Very raw, extremely difficult to isolate individual flavors due to over-carbonation. Flavors that are distinguishable are caramel malts, wheat notes, dandelion, and mild citrus, followed by horrible astrigency, alcohol burn, and heavy carbonation, slightly metallic. Would be a whole lot better if they made a 4/5ths version with about 5% alcohol. and 1/4 the carbonation. A partially good beer.

Clear amber with lots of carbonation, big fluffy head that quickly faded. Very fizzy mouth feel, makes me think of dry champagne oddly enough. Spicy with some decent complexity. Underrated.

Poured a clear effervescent amber with a large fizzy white head. Aroma of honey, flowers, some orangey ctirus. Flavor starts out sweet with some honey and floral essences but quickly becomes very dry with a bit of toffee and lots of pepperyness. Struck me as a tad aggressive for a saison, not especially classy.

I don’t usually dig rogue...and this is a shity saison to further my opinion. Pours a pale orange....funky farmhouse yeast (kind of bretty...but I doubt they used any). Flavor was way too spicey and peppery...most unbalanced saison I’ve encountered. Too carbonated and very starchy.