Rogue HazelNut Brown Nectar

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

Hazy brown colour, small head. Rich and strong hazelnut aroma, notes of burnt sugar, toffee, leaves and licorice. Full, nutty flavour. Toffee, anise, burnt sugar and hops. Clean and hard body with soft chewy malt. Delicious! The best brown ale I ever had to date.

This does have a lot of hazelnut in the flavor and aroma. A sweet beer, nutty flavor. some butter. Not really thick enough to be called a nectar.

Pours a clear reddish brown color with a thin offwhite head. Mild aroma of malt and hazelnut. Mild flavor of malt and nuts, the finish leaves a chalky and dry feeling. Light to medium body, soft carbonation. This is a major let down, I used to love this beer but now either my tastes have changed or the quality of the beer has gone downhill.

Sampled at From The Vine monthly beer tasting Oct 13th, 2003: Kudos to Rogue for not making a run-of-the-mill Brown Ale. Pours a dark brown color with a medium light tan head. Nice spidery lacing. Huge caramel aroma along with the telltale hazelnut. Somewhat rich with a nice mixture of malt, nuts, caramel and hops in the flavor. The finish is rich and nutty. I like this one.

Bottle: Ruby brown, large foamy light beige head, very nice lacing, very light carbonation.   Grainy/nutty nose, moreso on the side of nutty, with a huge honey and even moreso Honeycomb cereal aroma.   Totally Honeycomb cereal like... DAMN!   Seems a touch too sweet for my taste, at least on the nose.   Quite sweet on the tongue, honey, malty, but quite smooth to say the least.   Big body, honeycomb cereal dominates, with a rather smooth mouthfeel.   Finishes rather sweet, malty, with loads of honey and even graham crackers.   Very slight chocolate malt profile throughout.   Good, very drinkable, but basically too sweet for my tastes.

<b>In short: </b>An intensely hazelnut flavoured brown ale. Straight to the point.
<b>How: </b>Bottle 22oz, consumed fresh soon after purchase.
<b>The look: </b>Cloudy brown body topped by a medium beige head
<b>In long: </b>Nose of hazelnuts and milk chocolate. Taste is more of the same. The beer feels very creamy despite the very active carbonation. Hazelnuts, milk chocolate, more hazelnuts, a touch of vanilla, more hazelnuts, some butter (peanut butter). The beer sure ain’t complex but it is like nothing else. A really fun beer but I wouldn’t drink that all night long. Let’s just say that the first half of the bottle is a lot more fun than the second half. A bit too sweet and that creamy/buttery sensation is a bit too much for a session beer. As sweet and nutty as my aunt Alice. Every time I see the poor lady she asks me if I’d like some white chocolate and she hands me her denture.

Bomber. Astonishingly good for a brown. Pours deep mahogany with a SuperFund-size billowing tan head. Sweet, chocolatey, lightly filbert-y (the northwest name for "hazelnuts") nose. Fairly light body, medium carb. Sweet, gentle, almost neutral attack that gives way quickly to sweet malts on the mid palate. This is really, really flavorful for a brown, but no matter how many dull browns you’ve had, it still tastes like one. Oddly enough. Clean, neutral finish. Good stuff.

Chocolate, caramel aroma, chestnut colour, with a large toffee head. Roasted, candied malt flavour, mild tootsie roll taste as well, nutty towards the end. Well balanced, light bodied, nice bitterness. Really good example.