Rogue Kells Irish Style Lager

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

Solid Irish style. Spicy with a hit of apple. Poured like a Pils good high head.

Poured a golden color with a thick head and hints of carbonation. Very average tasting, good but not great.

A tasting at Three Callers Milwaukee. A good, not great Irish Lager. Nothing stands out yet nothing offended either. Worth a try.

Transparent beer that looks like a typical lager. It has a nice and bubbly appearance. The gold color is what you would find standard in a lager. I can only give this the score of an average appearance. Lagers just don’t make a statement in regards to the way they look. The beer has the pils and lager hop and malt smell. It has a little less pungent smell than the cheap corporate American lagers. The ingredients smell more crisp, but I would say that this beer exceeds that level by much. Very stale taste. The hops taste like garbage. I get the same satisfaction out of a Coors. I could have purchased a 6 pack of pints of Coors for the price of the 22 ounce bottle. The beer has virtually no malt presence. The beer is also very thin, as you would expect from a lager. The fact that this is coming from Rogue, I expect a suprerior product, but I am tasting something completely inferior. Just because this is Rogue does not mean that it deserves a higher score. I find this to be on the level on Corporate American lagers.

A so so premium lager. Aroma of macro swill. Pour was a clear gold with a nice 2 finger white head. Taste was like a Budweiser with a little more sweet light malt flavor and less carbonation. Good for the style, but I didn’t enjoy it much.

Golden pour, thin filmy head and some carbonation streamers from the bottom. Nose is of of grains, honey and some yeast. Taste is has a bit of funk on the front end but leads to a bit of earthy graininess. Quick finish. Meh.

650 ml. Topaz and clear with a creamy, four-finger head that settles into a lasting cap. Slight grain and spicy honey aroma. Flavor is similar, plus some tart apple and drying spicy grassy herb on the end. Even some faint toasted nut and cocoa in the aftertaste. Light medium body is soft and finishes slightly dry and tingly. Nice ale-like flavors for a pale lager.

yellow/gold pour with 3ft. of head(woops). apples and a bit-o honey to the nose. Not much flavor to this one. Tastes like a carbonated green tea to me.