Rogue HazelNut Brown Nectar

Wow...there is nothing subtle about this beer. Aroma of malt and nuts, brown sugar, choclate, and a little roast. Poured dark brown in color with a litte ruby too. Nice to look at. Complex flavor with malty hints of hazelnut, nut, roast, choclate, cream, vanilla and oreo cookies. Heavily sweet but neither bitter not sour. Finish is sweet and short. Overall, nice flavor .

Bottle. Chestnut hazy brown with a small head. Aromas are lots of hazelnut with lots of weetabix malts and chocolate. Flavours are sweet chocolate and toast malts with weetabix and some burnt notes. The nuttiness is resinous and fairly syrupy. Dry on the finish with more nuttiness on the aftertaste. Some light metallic notes. Good.

I don’t have good notes for this guy, but I bombered it into a pint glass and it was a nice beer.

Serving: 22 oz. bottle. Appearance: Deep amber brown with a large, foamy, tan head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma: Very nutty, a small metallic note, wood, a touch of soy, and of course hazelnuts. Taste: More nuts, but completely lacking body. A little cardboard and a slight tart note. A little oxidized perhaps. Not so good on the tongue. Palate: Medium, smooth carbonation with a medium-light mouthfeel, watery mouthfeel. Medium-short, nutty finish. Overall: Lacks depth and flavor. I am taking this with a grain of salt because I think this bottle may be a little oxidized. Rebuy: Perhaps to test the oxidation theory, but otherwise no.

Pours mahogany with a 3 finger, chunky tan head that has great retention. Aroma is caramel, toasted hazelnut, white chocolate, toasted grain, rich toffee, a little roast and just a hint of dry grass. Flavor is roast, toasted hazelnut, caramel, overdone toffee, chocolate liquer, a little grass and just a hint of tartness toward the finish. Palate is medium bodied, somewhere between creamy and syrupy texture and a neutral entry with a dry finish. Good stuff, one of the better Browns I have had, probably the best implementations of Hazelnut extract too.

Sexy label. Pours a decent mocha-like head, a deep honey brown. Sharp hazelnut, mocha coffee aroma. Perhaps a bit too much coffee? Solid regardless. Nutty smooth malt, deep longlasting impression. Littler simpler than I expected, I’m not seeing the complexity some here are. A pretty straight forward brown ale. Smooth, yet very present, finish. Something brown ales should strive for. Though I can’t help but knock it a notch for being SUCH a brown ale...

A pretty good, reasonably complex beer. Poured a deep amber brown with a slight beige head. Nutty, malty aroma. Tasted syrupy sweet with notes of caramel, hazelnut, and roasted malts. Did not detect the hops very much - too bad, perhaps they could have halped balance the sweetness. Pretty good overall.