Rogue Youngers Special Bitter

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Newport, Oregon USA

Pours a clear medium brownish-amber with a nice thick head and lacing. Nice! Aroma is peppery - I can tell I’m going to like these hops already - but also slightly soapy and the malting smells very familiar - sort of stock ESB. Tastes like a well-made ESB should, good peppery anglo-hops, very light caramel, touch of alcohol in the finish. Body is very well carbonated, and the long-lasting head adds lightness to each sip throughout. Nice, sessionable beer, well crafted but otherwise unremarkable.

Draught @ rogue and Brass. Golden color, nice persistent whie head. a great bitter, better than any english one I’ve ever had.

Orange amber in color with a thick foamy white head, hoppy citrus armoa. Bright citrus taste with reserved caramel/toffee malt with very clean refreshing bitter finish. Great carbonation, medium body.

As "Fat Head’s": Pours golden with a big fluffy white head. Aroma is very well balanced malts and hops, lot’s of grapefruit and bready unertones. Flavor is big, bitter, and clean. The hops do more to bitter than to flavor the beer, neutralizing the somewhat strong maly backbone. Very english in character, but more bold than your typical bitter. Very nice, quaffable beer.

Poured a nice orange yellow hue with a frothy off-white head that had nice retention. Aroma was bread-like, hops and a little grass like notes to it. Flavor was mildly sweet like citrus fruits and honey, and finished with a mild hop bitterness to it. Not overpowering in anyway just smooth and flavor full.

Feb. 2007 - Fine beer. Pour was dark copper, thick foamy head and sweet lacing. Aroma was biscuity and citrus hops. Flavor was thick rich malt with a nice bitter hop twang at the end (of grapefruits, predominantly). Smooth mouthfeel, full flavor. Nice.

On tap at the Bocktown, thanks Chris. Clear brownish yellow orange. Big creamy head that hangs and goes rocky. Initially comes across nicely fruity with just a tad of background bitter. Rather enjoyable I’d say. I liked this one. Barely any bitter linger on the finish but enough to let you know you drank a beer. A good example of a bitter not being bitter!

A decent beer from Rogue. Fairly simple example of the ESB style. Typical for Rogue though, with a good dose of hops in both the aroma and palate. The beer pours out a dark orange color, a simple off-white foamy cap with aromas that was a peppery/spicy hop and malt combo which was different, but nice. Flavors had some light sweet malt combo, a bit undefineable though. Perhaps it was some caramel malts? I think the beer had some age on it, which might have contributed to the marked lack of definition. Citrus and floral hop notes also showed up in the flavor.