Marstons Owd Rodger

Brewed by Marstons (Marstons plc)
Style: English Strong Ale
Burton-on-Trent, England

Bottle. Dark red brown colour. Creamy white good lasting head. Aroma of roasted malt and caramel with a hint of oak wood. A sweet caramel, roasted malty and slightly bitter (specially in the finish) flavour.

Wouldn’t have missed it much had I not tasted it (...if that makes sense!?!). Really just another filtered, dead and artificially charged strong ale in a bottle. Tasted after a session and a meal at the Green Man in rural Horsted Keynes, Sussex. Pours a sparkling ruddy-brown with a lot of huge bubbles unbefitting its style. Head was half decent, rocky and sandy beige in colour managing to hold out for the length and left behind some frosting on the glass. Rich, tannic, caramel and fruit pudding nose with the added bonus of charcoal. Palate differs showing toasted, lightly roasted, biscuity malts. Tasted around room temperature, it’s not exactly huge in body or presence and it’s a little lifeless on the tongue. Alcohol is prominent as is a light note of untreated pine. Quite sweet overall, toffeeish with a mildly dry, mildly astringent back end that’s desperately void of balance. Becomes cloying after a while, could have gone a bitter in between and come back to this. Pretty straightforward and bland. Average!!! (50cL, 31/01/07)

(Bottle BB 31/01/07) Aroma of roasted malt and caramel with a hint of oak wood. Red brown colour, slightly sparkling and small, light brown, mostly diminishing head with very small lacing. Sweet caramel, roasted malty and slightly bitter (especially in the finish) flavour. Softly carbonated, dry, slightly sticky, warming (alcohol does not taste) and medium to full-bodied palate. Very good strong ale! 26/05/06

A Mes rate: Sweet wine like aroma. Wonderful mahogany appearance with a reasonably well behaved head. Sweet sugary flavour that is not particularly balanced or refined. Alcohol is all too apparent. Strange full yet thin palate that ends up on the thin side. Sweet and cloying finish. Not too impressive.

Bottle.
Pours a cola / dark ruby color, with a generous, beige bubbly head.
Dryish malty aroma, with a hint of hops and barnyardiness. Seemed faintly metallic as well, but perhaps I was hallucinating.
Semisweet, fruity malt and alcohol flavor. Sweet alcohol and caramel finish with a slightly bitter hoppy aftertaste.
Very smooth and well balanced. Medium body. Surprisingly delicious.

Cask Handpump at the Standing Order, Derby (JDW) 24/02/2006 Mid to dark brown coloured with some fruit aroma. Fruity sweet flavour. Dry and slightly bitter on the palate with a warming malt finish.

Another beer that I used to drink regularly when living in Worcester friends in my local often used to ask for a Pedirog basically half and half of Pedigree and Owd Roger I think this was owing to the strength of drinking a whole pint of the Owd Roger. A very dark red coloured ale nice toffee sweetness, very full bodied but the alcohol just lingers a tad too much though to be a classic of it’s style.

Bottle.Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Dark red brown colour. Wonderfull berr to look at. Alas no aroma, but powerfull taste of licorice. Fantastic long finish. Oily palate but too carbonated.