Rogue HazelNut Brown Nectar

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Brown Ale
Newport, Oregon USA

Everything about this beer is marvelous - nutty aroma, lush, rich, smooth mouthfeel, and complex, nuanced flavors. We love Rogue’s bigger stuff, and this is right up there with the Chocolate Stout in my book. Just plain yummy stuff.

(Bottle). Very sweet mocha aroma. Dark reddish brown with a light tan head. Flavor is sweet malty nuts. Delicious at first, but after a few sips I found myself having had enough.

22 oz bottle. Clear purple brown with a latte head. Nose like a coffee ice cream shake with distinct toasted hazelnuts. Creamy with a bubbly tang, this time reminding me of egg cream. Taste is hazelnut and sour raisin with touches of mocha. The nuttiness is a perfect fit for this brew.

bottle, medium amber pour, sweet nose, decent head, caramel and some fruit flavors, nice body and medium finish

For the Rogue in all of us.
Sounds like the story of my life, past, present, and future. Rogue always delivers an excellent brew, and the Hazelnut Brown Nectar is no exception. Available in a 22oz bomber, she quickly fills my glass to her very tip-top, but without overflowing.
Rich, dark brown with hints of amber showing through along the sides of the glass. A thick soft creamy head at least 2 fingers thick quickly forms, and then fades into a lush layer of creamy foam resting on top of the beer. Rich hazelnuts practically overflow from the glass and throughout the nose. Sweet malty caramel notes act as an accent to the intensely sweet roasted hazelnut aroma and palate. For such a succulently aromatic brew, the body and mouthfeel are very balanced. Neither too heavy nor too cloying. An excellent brown ale. The hazelnuts practically dance across my taste buds, sweet and nutty on the first number, then settling into a more mellow malty profile with a hint of hop bitterness in the finish. As she warms, along with the sweet roasted hazelnuts I detect a hint of oats/grain in the nose and the palate, mingling with the hazelnuts to bring an almost "breakfast" taste and aroma to the brew. I would attribute this to the oats aroma I detect. Even so, Hazelnut still goes down smooth and easy, leaving even less of a hop nip at the finish the further along in my glass I go. Fabulous.
Probably one of my favorite American brown ales, Rogue pulls off a stellar traditional and yet revolutionary interpretation of the English Brown Ale style. Easy to quaff, I’ve had Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar both on draft and in the bottle and I can say that both stand proud.

Tasted 26/07/2008. 750ml bottle, in Invercargill, with Sam and Steve. Bloody nutty. Almost over-the-top, like the Chocolate stout, but it is so nicely drinkable behind that nut character that it gets away with it. Again, a perfectly conditioned Rogue ale with a kinky twist. Sweet, a nice desert beer - hold the ice cream.

Bottle with yalnikim (in NZ), pours brown with a yellowish head. A very nutty aroma, but slightly cardboard. Man this is nutty! Drinks like liquid nutella - nutty and chocolately. Difficult to know how much I actually like this beer - but much respect to the brewer for putting this much nut flavour into a beer.

Sooooo nutty. How could not love this beer? Uses the best part of a brown with a true hazelnutness to good effect.