Rogue Smoke Ale

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Smoked
Newport, Oregon USA

The beer seems like a smoked amber when I was expecting a smoked porter. Oh well I found a pretty smooth taste to this beer.

The Rogue Smoke Ale pours a hazy, copper red with a decent sized, fizzy white head that lasted pretty well.

The aroma is strong smoke, like smoked summer sausage or bacon and mesquite.

The taste is some malty, almost candy-like, sweetness with strong smoke followed by a nice hoppy finish. Pretty well balanced, but the candy sweetness was a bit much at times. The palate was a little on the thin side.

Overall, a very nice smoked beer. The more of these I have, the more I like them!

A dark copper pour with a moderate head. Smokey fruit aromas. Smooth mouthfeel with flavor somewhat reminiscent of a campfire or smoked meat. Interesting and not too bad.

Hazy copper body with a persistent thin white head. An enjoyable aroma that is only partially made up of smoke. Strong citric hops, mesquite chips and a touch grainy malt underneath. The body is what I would have expected, smooth and neither too thick nor too thin. I enjoy that the smoke flavors are not too strong, like Schlenkerla. At times this almost seems IPA-ish, which keeps someone like me (read: I don’t like smoke or barbeque) interested longer. I think the hops help carry through the smoked malts. I’ve had much worse in the field of smoked beers.

I like rauchbiers. This one pours dark amber, with a nice head. Great smoky aroma that reminds me of smoked almonds. Tastes like malt, with a smoked nut flavor and the same finish. A unique, and delicious, style.

This starts out with a big head on a deep copper beer. Heavy smoke aroma that will please the smoke lover but is enough to turn away anyone that doesn’t like the style. Smoke is strongly present in the flavor as well, but overall there are hops and malt to balance this out nicely.

Poured yet again from the Rogue brew pub in San fran. Have you ever been to a bonfire? fuckin’ A. it smelt like the morning after you’d gone to a bonfire, got totally hammered, and sat right in front of the burning bonfire. Poured like an amber, but the bartender didn’t really give a rat’s ass about our tasting it, so the head was fairly large to start. Tasted just like a bonfire too, but the pungency diminished slighty over time. Slighty hoppy too.. Another interested idea by rogue, and it was a pleasure to try a smoked barley-esque beer, but not my steeze entirely..

First sip: WOW! Smokey and hoppy and malty. Second sip: Smokey and a bit hoppy. Third sip: smokey and... Fourth sip: smokey... Was I drinking beer or liquid BBQ?