jcwattsrugger (5223), Florida and, New Jersey, USA Jan 7, 2006 12 oz bottle-pours a tan, creamy, rocky head. Color is hazy copper with a few tiny particles. Aroma is hops, citrus. Taste is hops, citrus, then malt comes through in the background nicely. Mild carbonation. beervana (781), Libertyville, Illinois, USA Dec 22, 2005 One pint, six ounce brown bottle purchased from Armanetti’s, Mundelein, IL. Clear amber ale having a small diminishing head with good lacing. Nice toffee and sweet malt aroma. Soft carbonation. Medium bodied that starts with light sweet malt and hop flavors. Middles with light bitterness. Finishes with light nutty malt flavor and lingering bitterness. Well-balanced, this is a good drinkable beer that goes well with food. blankboy (3165), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dec 15, 2005 Bottle shared with tupalev -- courtesy of tupalev. Pours a cloudy dark orange with a small white head. Aroma has a strange hoppy smell -- it smelt like a grilled cheese sandwich to me! Flavour of hops, tea and yes -- grilled cheese. Such a strange beer, I really liked it. oldrtybastrd (1801), Morlautern, Germany/Great Falls, Montana, USA Dec 14, 2005 Pours a nice reddish orange color. Aromas of nice citrus/grapefruit hops and sweet malts. Flavor starts nice crisp bitter hop and then mellows to a nice malt.. Mungo (2474), Southampton, Hampshire, England Dec 14, 2005 Bottle. I’d seen this in Sainsburys quite a few times and didn’t bother to buy it, it was fairly expensive and I hadn’t been that keen on some of the other Rogue’s I’d tried. Then I saw it reduced and thought well its now or never and I’m quite glad I got it. Citrus hops up front leading into a more piney earthy type bitterness in the body. Some of the malty yeast type flavours I havent been to impressed with in other Rogues but not on the same scale. I was quite suprised to see that the hops were Willamete (US fuggles?) and EKG as this seemed like US hops all the way. tupalev (2605), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dec 13, 2005 Bottle from the Rogue pub in San Francisco shared with Blankboy. Nice deep sweet caramel malt and hop aroma. Deep dark orange, small off white head. Nice orange citrus and malt taste. There was an interesting tea like / maybe even grilled cheese quality to it as well. Certainly the mix of hops is interesting here. A solid representation of the ESB style here. Yard (45), Senoia, Georgia, USA Dec 12, 2005 Red amber in appearence with small off white head. Lacing is visible. Smooth but dies of with a bitter aftertaste. For sure has the normal rouge taste. Malty but still light with hops Good Beer. mik82 (34), England Dec 6, 2005 650ml bottle from sainsburys. Amber colour. Lovely hop flavours. I really liked this one.
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