Rogue Kells Irish Style Lager

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Premium Lager
Newport, Oregon USA

Big bottle. Delicate large white meringue head on hazy dark yellow. Typical lager aroma. Good palate. Zesty edge. Spritzy apple finish. Very pricey for an above average lager. Not sure of the Irish-ness.

pours yellow medium white head. Mild malt and yeast flavors, typical lager. I generally like lagers but this was not an impressive beer.

Pilsner, Lager, Ale brewers should just leave them alone already. Typical through out. Even the mighty Rogue cant make a standout.

Had on draft at Ale house. Very pale yellow almost clear!! Taste was very week. Not a lot of flavor beyond a bit of wheat and malts.

I always expect Rogue to have some solid stuff and this one let me down a bit. Granted it is hard to get me excited about a lager, but this beer was nothing special. Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Aroma is slightly of malt. The beer is easy to drink and well balanced. The end is a little bitter.

Pours to a pale straw color with a good sized head. Small bubbles. Not too much body or aroma really. Slightly hoppier than the average macrobrew, but definitely not worthy of Rogue’s hefty price tag ($4.99 in VT). Not one I’d like to try again.

Had this at Old Chicago. Weak colored and a bit cloudy in the mug. Small froth. The beer tastes like a macrobrew with a soapy character. The body is watery. This was not what I expected from a Rogue product.

Pours with a frothy, initially fat-two-finger thick, pale, off-white colored head. The beer is a full gold color and shows an almost brilliantly clear, straw / light-gold color when held up to the light. The aroma smells of sweet honey-like malt with just a kiss of herbal and lemon-like hops. A deeper inspection doesn’t reveal a whole lot more, but I do get a solid grain character, some cracker like malt and perhaps a wisp of cooked corn (DMS perhaps).

This has a solid, perceptible bitterness to it that nips at you as the beer first hits the tongue and slowly becomes a bit astringent with its bitterness as it moves to the finish. Quite dry tasting, with perhaps a hint of grain sweetness that comes into play in the late middle portions of a sip. Herbal hop notes are perhaps the biggest flavor contributor after the bitterness; the hop flavor is lightly green, a bit resinous, with a touch of lemon zest coming in where the sweetness is sensed. As the beer warms up a bit, the malt sweetness picks up just a bit and provides a touch of honey-like flavors to the brew. This is quite light and quaffable, definitely a beer to be drunk in quantity. Though I am finding that you don’t want this to warm up too much as the hops become a bit more astringent than the light malt presence can handle.

About what I expected, but actually has quite a bit more hop character than I was expecting. This would be good on a hot summer’s afternoon.

Purchased: BevMo, Tucson AZ