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Rogue Brutal Bitter

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
12203.72/5.03.71/5.06.2%99.6English 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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 stobbe74 (700), Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/512/20
Sep 29, 2009  
Bottle, 12 fl. oz. Pours a clear golden beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is hops (chinook), and the flavor follows the nose. The palate is bitter. and overall a good beer.


 CUJO (339), Brooklyn, New York, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Sep 27, 2009  
Bottle: pint glass: Quality Meats NYC: taking a time out from the office with Pwn3d and RickyRicardo... Pours a hazy orange/ medium amber leaving a finger of dry white head. Nose rocks, nice young summer fruits/ citrus. The taste is complex, yet body is light... making me wish I was able to enjoy the killer burger with the brew (instead of at my desk!). The hops are strong and bitter, dry and crisp balanced by the fruit tones and malts.


 Pwn3d (1052), Manhattan, New York, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/105/515/20
Sep 25, 2009  
Bottled enjoyed at quality meats with CUJO and RickyRicardo. Burgers are epic here by the way. Pours hazy tangerine, white head atop. Nose is an incredible musky tangerine, hop, and apricot. Taste is same with bitter tang.


Beeronaut (52), Cambridgeshire, England
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Sep 24, 2009  
Pours lovely deep golden with an almost orange/pink hue, big, dense, white fluffy head. Aroma is fantastic, really zesty with subtle amount of spice, lots of citrus, classic pink grapefruit, cut grass, some tropical fruits, passion fruit? Lychee? Sweet florals. Flavour is delightful, more citrus, orange zest, lemon, light ginger notes and more ripe pink grapefruit, very clean and crisp with a hint of spice, no sign of the almost 7% abv. Refreshing with the right amount of dryness. Palate is soft and creamy. All finishes very refreshing, pretty dry and spicy. The beer is deceptively complex, it comes across a straight forward refreshing glugger, but spend time with it and the depth keeps increasing, easy going but a great beer.


 Bragesnak (2257), Aarhus, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/517/20
Sep 22, 2009  
From Havnens Vin, Vejle, DK. Bottled, 200909. Orange with white head. Aroma of citrus, spruce and malt. Flavor is grapefruit, malt and spices.


Wombata (74), Kobe, Japan
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 20, 2009  
On tap at Portland Intl airport. Aroma: citrus, piney Flavor: Like the aroma plus caramel malt, lots of piney resinous hop. Comments: Balanced malt and hop is not the goal here--lives up to its name. I tend to prefer a lot of rogue’s other ales as they do a great job with their malts.


 patrickfannon (298), Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Sep 19, 2009  
Bottle. Pours hazy orange with a dank, dense white head. Powerful aroma of hops, citrus, spice, and hints of malt. Full body with a clean, bitter aftertatse. Awesome BRUTAL bitter.


 drowland (1380), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 13, 2009  
Bomber into a pint glass. Good pour with a thick and dense meringue-like head, complete with peaks. Big citrus hops mixed with sweet malts in flavor and aroma.



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