Showing posts with label rogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rogue. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

rogue john john ale

rogue john john ale - pale ale brewed with juniper berries and aged in spruce gin barrels

look of love - muted wheat

nosed - lemon yellow sun, musty grapefruit

in my mouth - juuuniper...a bit of xmas in the mouth...upbeat lemon and pepper...grapefruity hops.....

this is a most wonderful drink all day ale made with love and happiness..i will be drinking as much as i can find...

this beer is love...one of my tiptops!

Monday, May 24, 2010

craft beer week

a week full of beers...

at hollingshead:

tall bottle rogue smoked porter

short bottle of avery dépuceleuse - barrel aged wild ale brewed with sour cherries and in zinfandel barrels, 100% brettanomyces fermentation....... (what a great beer)

on tap:

stone vertical epic 090909 x 3

russian river blind pig

stone / dogfish head / victory brewing collabo - saison du buff - brewed w parsley, sage, rosemary and of course thyme..another great beer x 4

at home with ryan on his bornday:

dogfish head red & white

ballast point victory at sea coffee vanilla imperial porter

mikkeller 1000 ibu

at the stone brewing tasting with ryan also on his bornday:


stone cali belgique
saison du buff
oaked arrogant bastard
sublimely self righteous
13th anniversary imperial red
2006 double bastard
2006 imperial russian stout
2007 imperial russian stout
2010 imperial russian stout
12th ann bitter choco oatmeal stout
2008 old guardian
2009 old guardian
2010 old guardian



and just yesterday...

port brewing third anniversary
avery fifteenth anniversary


happy craft beer week everybody!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

rogue

rogue double mocha porter - 750ml - 8.2%abv

ingredients - c120, c150, kiln coffee, chocolate and rogue microbarley farm risk malts; summit, and rogue micro hopyard wilamette hops; free range coastal water, and pacman yeast




















the deepest brown

nose: coffee, walnuts, more coffee

mouthed: coffee, almonds, bright in the mouth, cacao...deeep chocolate, espresso beans....french roast too!....more coffee...no cream and sugar in sight...

this would be good with bloodred meat....!

this is something i would buy again..

Saturday, April 24, 2010

beerz

rogue brewing company rogue xs imperial red ale - 7 oz. 19.4 plato - 58 ibu - 76 aa - 47 lovibond - 9%

nse: ruby sugared malt, a little bit of saison must.....

mouthed: very bright, hoppy in the upper mouth...roasted cacao, earthy hops, bold, a bit of almonds...