Rogue Shakespeare Stout

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Stout
Newport, Oregon USA

Bottle. Pours black with tan head. Aroma of malt, chocolate, coffee, oatmeal. Flavor is dark and roasted with chocolate and coffee notes. Finishes with slight hop bitterness and leaves a chocolate aftertaste.

Pours a very deep black with a nice creamy pillowy tan head. Aroma is very roasted malt with a little bit of nuttiness almost to a point of being smoked nuts. Chocolate dominates though. Flavor starts heavy on the milk chocolate. Just at the right time the cocoa bitterness rushes in and provides a great balance that holds through the finish. Medium body that is very easily drinkable. Great stout that doesn’t try to do too much. Just stays true to the style.

On tap at the flying saucer in KC. I’ve been waiting to rate this one for quite some time. Pours a straight black body with a creamy tan head that remains lacy. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, oatmeal, and lots of bitter earthy hops. Taste is very similar. Roasty and bitter, but extremely well balanced. Creamy and full bodied. Overall, another great Rogue brew. They balance the sweet chocolate malts very well with the abundance of hops. One of my all time favorite stouts.

Pours a silky black with a nice tan head. Little aroma, but I do smell roasted nuts and coffee. Taste is coffee, roasted malts, dark chocolate, earthy bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel with just a bit more carbonation than I’d like in a stout, but I’m splitting hairs now. Damn good.

Deeeliciousss...I’m not normally a straight stout guy but this was great. Nice, full bodies stout that you could drink all night...makes guiness seem like a bad dream

black color, thin tan head, nice lacing. aroma of chocolate, coffee, roasted malt, dry fruit... a touch of sweetness. flavor is roasted malt, dry, sour fruit, perhaps a touch of alcohol. also cofee and a touch of chocolate. full bodied, a raosty, bitter finish. one of rogue’s better offerings, i think. the sweetness of the chocolate malts is definitely offset by the coffee bitterness. a nice complex brew.

Pours out of the bottle opaque espresso-black with a coarse and short lived taupe head. Classic stout aromas of coffee and dark, bitter chocolate topped with faintly floral notes and a hint of earthiness. Roasty, malty sweetness gives way to a lingering, bitter finish Palate is surprisingly light and there is carbination. Good Stout... Didn’t blow me away.

A long anticipated brew, and rightfully so. As soon as the beer is poured, it’s poetic beauty is captured in the pitch black, opaque ebony body and thick, frothy, root-beer-float head, which itself is the color of a rich chocolate shake. As the head dissipates, it leaves thick brown lacing on the glass and maintains a small pleasant ring atop the body. (I have found that even the darkest stouts still have a ruby hue when held to the light. This one does not. It is black as night, and as unforgiving as a black hole...) Roasted malt, rich chocolate and marshmallows drift languidly from the glass, followed quickly by aromas of flaky, grainy rolled oats, brown sugar and maple, and sticky sweet raspberry liqueur(Chambord). The taste is lusciously bittersweet, with baking cocoa, espresso, vanilla bean, and toffee-like, caramel-malt. There is a particular earthy quality, likely from the oats, and again, dark fruits and ripe black raspberries. The sensuous dark liquid rolls like silk across the tongue, and caresses the throat with a smooth, oily, velvet-like body. A terrific mouthfeel, soft and sweet, make this beer very easy to enjoy, and it’s modest alcohol content allows for more of the rich, sweet chocolatey flavor to come through before the gentle, drying hop finish. Excellent pairing with rich desserts. (In my case, a homemade batch of oreo/brownie pizza with marshmallows and walnuts.) Delicioso!