Rogue Ten Thousand Brew Ale (10,000)

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Newport, Oregon USA

Pours a deep caramel color with a off- white head. Aroma of malts, fresh hops and some notes of carmel. Flavor is caramel, pine, citrus and other fruity hops with a lingering bitter finish.Not worth the 21$ dollar price

On tap at Rogue brewpub. Light caramel color; medium head. Not too hoppy. A little bitter. Nothing special....odd finish I just couldn’t place.

Light copper color with no head. The aroma was barely there, but I think it kinda smelled like citrusy hops. The taste is best described as weak hop juice. It’s like it tried to be an IPA, but was shot down at the Indian border.

draft. hazy golden yellow with big floral aroma and some nice citrus and alcohol topped off with a big creamy head. taste was very surprising. a bit overwhelming at first as i got this huge overflow of pine with a whollop of alcohol and astringincy in the thoat. mellowed out with some warming but never can to grips with what exactly i liked and disliked about it. nothing seemed to balance anything together. just a jumble. good effort but was hoping for much more.

Dirty golden body with a small off-white head. The grapefruity hops are somewhat overwhelmed by a rather strong alcohol presence. The end-result is somewhat aggressive and not very subtle. Bitterness is in the light-medium range. Medium body and medium carbonation. It was late in a tasting session so that’s it for the tasting notes. Kind of disappointing offering for an important milestone of a very good brewery. Many will complain that the price of this ceramic-bottled beer is pretty stiff for what it offers. But not me. Somebody else paid for it.

Draft. Cloudy orange color with nice fluffy head. Mild hop aroma. Sweet slightly watery flavor. Hops vanish quickly and reappear in the back of throat. Get thicker as it warms. Decent brew, glad I didn’t buy the big ass bottle though...

Thanks Jason. The beer pours to a glowing orange copper body with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet pineapple, mango, pine and spruce. The flavor is really malty. Cookies and pale malt. Spruce hops. The palate is bitter and seems like the mouthfeel is average.

So I stop at Kahn’s in Indianapolis to do some serious beer shopping. This ceramic bottle sits on the shelf. I’m very intrigued, but not enough to shell out $23.99 + tax for it. Later that day, we parked at a random grocery store in Louisville and walked down to Cumberland for lunch. Going back to the car, I went in the grocery store to relieve my bladder and to buy some water. There, by chance, I picked up this very same beer for 10.99 + no sales tax. Glad I did, this is worth 11 bucks for a 750, considering the lavish packaging. The pour is pretty nice: hazy orange, tall head even in a wide mouth chalice. The aroma is a little bit of a let down. I was expecting something more intense than their Imperial Pale Ale, and this really isn’t. Sure, it’s decently floral, nice honey presence, pine, grapefruit, but it’s not quite over the top given the parameters of the style. (This has got to be an IIPA, imho) The flavor is really what does it for me. It’s supremely drying and piny with the citrus notes playing second fiddle. That’s not to say this isn’t very citrusy, because it is. The malts are quite nice, just providing adequate sweetness for a semblance of balance. Really, there isn’t much malt character to write home about, it just provides a clean, simple caramel character which allows the intensity and aggression of the hops to shine. I didn’t find the alcohol to be so present in the flavor, actually I was surprised to see 10% abv. The mouthfeel wasn’t over-the-top syrupy and the burn must’ve been covered up by the alpha acidity, though my nostrils burned a little after a sip, come to think of it. . I’m also surprised to see this at only 60 IBU, but perhaps the submissive malt character is responsible for more apparent bitterness. I liked this one more than others did for perhaps two reasons: I really enjoy that resiny pine flavor which is highly apparent in this brew, and I also enjoy aggressive, bold character when delivered in a fairly clean fashion, even it means sacrificing some sense of balance. That said, please don’t pay through the nose for this one. I was probably more hyped up because I did find a relatively good deal on it.