Rogue Brutal Bitter

	Percentile
	96
	overall

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

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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Ratings	Average	Score	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
1220	3.72/5.0	3.71/5.0	6.2%	99.6	English pint

Commercial Description:
Brutal combines Oregon hops with English Malts. The Oregon grown Crystal hop is a triploid variety developed from the German Hallertau aroma hop variety with contributions from Cascade, Brewers Gold, and Early Green. Crystal is the only hop used in brewing Brutal and it provides a massive amount of aroma without dry-hopping. The English malts used are floor malted Pipkin (a mellow cross of Maris Otter and Warboys, from an English company called Beeston), Cara Vienna and Cara Wheat.

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scoth (274), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	6/10	5/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Dec 29, 2008

Bottle. Pours clear amber golden. Smells of citrus with a little apple and caramel. Medium body. The malt profile is subdued, but it has a strong bitter hop flavor from start to finish, and a bitter aftertaste. Medium dry, slight pine resin flavor. Almost an IPA.

rocbyter (904), Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

3.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.3	7/10	3/5	6/10	3/5	14/20

Dec 28, 2008

Bitter aroma with a light amount of malt. Cloudy golden and orange color with a small white head. Initially bitter fading quickly.

gowdy (155), Ferney-Voltaire, France

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	7/10	3/5	7/10	4/5	13/20

Dec 28, 2008

Bottlev at Craigs house. bread, cloudy, golden, aminimal head, lightly bitter, light body, oily feel,

cgarvieuk (4171), Edinburgh, Scotland

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	7/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	15/20

Dec 28, 2008

Bottle at home ... copper big foam head ... sweet american hop ...grapefruit hop ... juicy ... little yeast ... little spice... medium bitterness

EB (3), Australia
does not count

3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3	6/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	10/20

Dec 28, 2008

Pale peach straw colour, creamy off white head. aroma blosseming with stone friuts, necterines peaches and tangerines with a slight malt back bone. meduim to lightwieght mouthfeel with slight cupcake malt backbone while the tounge gets bombarded with pine, a little citrus and most of all grapfuit. fell the dryness start to creep in half way through before finishing with thorst slaking bitternes all they way home. flavour covers alcohol entirely. not worth $15 for a 22oz in australia though

hughie (3048), Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	7/10	3/5	8/10	5/5	15/20

Dec 25, 2008

Orange, slightly hazy, with a white head. Sweet malt and peachy hop aroma. Taste is alluringly sweet with spicy citrus and some soap. Mid bitter finish, pleasant rather than brutal. I kept this little bottle going a couple of hours. Delicious.

SHIG (2023), Aviano, Italy

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	7/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Dec 23, 2008

Bottle: Poured an orange burnt amber with a off white head. Aroma is citrus and malt. Taste is bitter hops and mellowing malt. Very balanced and yet bitter enough to please the taste buds.

Nightfall (647), Athens, Greece

3.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.9	8/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	16/20

Dec 22, 2008

Bottle from UtoBeer. Hazy amber colored with a creamy white head. Fresh and crisp. Lots of citrus hops mostly. Very hoppy with a very bitter finish.

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