Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Specialty Grain
Newport, Oregon USA

Called "Morimoto" on the bottle. Light golden in color. Off white, chunky head. Smells dry and dusty like a wheat beer. More, roasted flavor than I exspected. Light spice, clean finish. Good.

Draught at Rogue, Newport (as Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale). Hazy pale amber, small head. The nose is fruty and flowery. Medium dry with fairly light body and clean mouthfeel. There’s some estery bubblegum flavour, low bitterness. An aromatic and very drinkable ale.

Bottle. Pours a clear light orange color, fluffy white head, good lacing, a few tiny bubbles rising in the beer. Honey, toasty aroma, not particularly strong, but a pleasant scent. Flavor is very sweet, only a slight hop bitterness that I can detect, kind of nutty in the finish. A well rounded toastiness comes in the middle and leads well to the very clean, nutty complementary finish. Definietly unique, I’ve never had a beer that’s anything like this. Body seems a little weaker than medium body I thought it should have, medium carbonation, smooth. This goes well with a light meal, for instance a salad (like I ate tonight), with its clean finish and lighter body.

[Sampled at Beermouth’s Rogue tasting at Vinens Verden.]
Hazy dark golden look with no head. Aroma of soba = buckwheat, fruit, walnut, sweet butterscotch. Flavor is similar. Like an ESB, very special, but not that bad. I have to get used to this brew and it will be better next time.

Rating for Morimoto Soba Signature Ale

Dense amber with a wee head that was quickly a white film. Malted & spiced aroma with resin, latent roast nuttiness and slight acrid hopping. Pleasant flavor, malted with a piney/lemony/taffyish middle and a sharp, "zesty" finish (as advertised). Interesting and enjoyable.

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12 oz bottle. Unique rare grain aroma. Planty, yet filled with a heavy musk of earth. Light. Pours a straw-gold with a rim of white. Flavor stays on par with aroma. The buckwheat adds a Musli character of whole grain to the beer, with dextrins and proteins to boot. Chewy and deep. The rest of the beer doesn’t really carry this character too well. There’s an oily sensation and a light nut meat. Light finish on airy, pine hops. Not bad, but nothing too special.

No head, light amber color. Interesting herbal, citrus, fruity flavor that I like. Light and refreshing. The folks at the Flying Saucer printed out a description from their computer system for me and it said that Soba is a member of the rhubarb family...I was kind of skeptical as to how that would work out, but it’s actually pretty good for a lighter beer in my opinion.

smells much like a pilsner. fair lacing with a mostly diminishing head. yellow-golden color.nice hop flavor ing (although a little light for my tastes).smooth short finish