Rogue Smoke Ale

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Smoked
Newport, Oregon USA

Pours a brownish amber with a light head. Dominating smoke aroma, with subtler hints of caramel. Flavour is powerfully smoky, like a barbeque, with feint notes of caramel and vanilla. Interesting beer.

22oz bottle. Pours clear brownish amber, topped with a thin off white head. Smoke aroma nicely compliments caramel and vanilla, and is not overpowering. Carmel hits the palate first, and smoke joins gradually. Milk chocolate and smoke persist for a long finish. Medium bodied and very drinkable. I found this beer much more enjoyable today than when I first tried it about a decade ago. Decent stuff, but not something I’d drink everyday.

Rogue Smoke Ale is a slightly hazy amber ale with a small white head that mostly dissipates and leaves solid lacing on the glass. It has a smokey, slightly sweet aroma with a peaty note. There’s something like beef jerky in the nose. It’s pretty light bodied and crisp, with a finish that’s kind of sharp. Yeah it’s smokey-- almost like barbeque. There’s a tartness from the malt and a spicy bitterness going on too, so it’s not just the smoke going on. It’s a nice blend of flavors and it’s well balanced. It’s an interesting and engaging beer.

Creamy head not large beer is well carbonated red brown in colour aroma caramel vanilla nice smokey ness meaty note bacon flavour strong smokeyness caramel vanilla smooth maltiness nice tasting beer morishing finish malt and smoke flavours combine to smooth but bright tasting beer great on the palate

Cloudy amber body with a light head. Very smokey flavor underlined with caramel malts. Very smokey taste that stays for a while. Very interesting beer.

(Bottled, 0.65l) Clear, deep amber with a small, firm head. Aroma is dryish, Altbier-like, tarry, smoky, woody and soy-salty. Smoky, dryish and tarry flavor with only a slight caramely sweetness from the smoked malt, and no Schlenkerla-style smoked ham. Medium body, quite soft carbonation, a bit thin. A decent and drinkable smoked, but lacks the depth and intensity of the best German ones.

(Bottle, 0.65 l) Poured amber and lightly hazy with small and white head. Aroma contained tar, malts and lightly roastedness. Palate was medium bodied with very high carbonation. Flavours were malts, smoke, tar, lightly sweetness, grain, bitterness and saltiness. Aftertaste was smoky and bitter.

(br-btl wt/rd-pnt, "12 ingredients", "a German style rauchbier", 6%, ¢26/oz)

ambr-lct, lasting creamy pale head, thick lace, ^co2, sticky full body.

aroma: fruity §malty §hoppy smoky.

flavor: malty §pale-ale T1, hoppy §crml-malt §hop-bitterness wood-smoke T2, §tbco-leaf citrus-hop-bitter no-smoke T3.

not as smoky as Schlenkerla.