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Rogue Kells Irish Style Lager

Rogue Kells Irish Style Lager - Premium Lager

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 Percentile 
46
overall
Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Premium Lager

Newport, Oregon USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5343/5.03/5.05.2%87.1Lager glass
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Commercial Description:
European-style pilsner brewed with Great Western 2-row, French Carapilsner malt, Sterling hops and Czech pilsner yeast. Kells Irish Lager undergoes one week of primary and 5 weeks of secondary fermentation and weighs in at 11.5 degrees plato with 28 International Bittering Units.
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beoir (51), st paul, Minnesota, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/510/20
Mar 12, 2008  
pours yellow medium white head. Mild malt and yeast flavors, typical lager. I generally like lagers but this was not an impressive beer.


 junon (210), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Mar 11, 2008  
Pilsner, Lager, Ale brewers should just leave them alone already. Typical through out. Even the mighty Rogue cant make a standout.


 BeerVirgin72 (778), Pataskala, Ohio, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/103/510/20
Mar 10, 2008  
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.


 chicagodri (1021), Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Mar 8, 2008  
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.


 nramsburg (200), New York, New York, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/511/20
Mar 7, 2008  
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.


 CasperQuaffer (142), Casper, Wyoming, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/102/58/20
Mar 5, 2008  
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.


 FlacoAlto (2473), Tucson, Arizona, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Mar 4, 2008  
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


Changus (13), Portland, Oregon, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/54/103/515/20
Mar 4, 2008  
Solid Irish style. Spicy with a hit of apple. Poured like a Pils good high head.



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