Rogue Dads Little Helper

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Malt Liquor
Newport, Oregon USA

22oz bottle - I drank this one alongside a Hurricane High Gravity Lager (A-B product) to compare the two and see what a craft brewer could do with this style that’s best known for being a cheap alcohol delivery system. Would the $6 bottle of Rogue be that much better than the $1.19 can? It pours clear gold with a one finger white head and a sweet corn and malt aroma. The taste is sweet malt with a touch of citrus fruit esters. The malt liquor corn is in there too. It’s light to medium bodied and finishes sweet with a touch of alcohol. It’s drinkable and not bad. I finished it, unlike the Hurricane. So in conclusion, the Rogue malt liquor is, as one might expect, much better than the $1.19 can of Hurricane. However it’s in no way worth the $6 a bomber.

Gold with a very thin white head. Aroma is malt, honey, alcohol. Taste is alcohol, light malt sweetness, corn. Not as repulsive as most malt liquors.

A golden ale with a thin white head. A doughy malt aroma with sweet peary notes and light alcohol. In mouth, a marzipan tasting beer, veering on a Belgian ale, sweet vanilla and warming alcohol. Medium bodied. Tasted in late Dec. 2006.

Pours clear golden with white head. Light grassy aroma. The flavor is much sweeter tthan i was expecting. Doughy yeast and malty flavors are dominant. Medium body with average carbonation. Much better than I was expecting for a malt liquor.

not a bad malt liquor at all. well blended and sweet. very sweet malt aroma and flavor. Very minimal hop character. Drinkable for the style. Probably won’t buy again.

probably the best malt liquor i have had so far, which doesn’t necesarilly mean much, but true nonetheless. decent scent of hops and malt. taste is of mild hops with yeast, and malt and some citrus. dispite what i said earlier, if i’m going to purchase a malt liquor, it will be one that costs $1.50 for a 40oz, not one that costs $5.

THOUGHTS: I’ve had a lot of malt liquor in my day and this wasn’t much different, but it’s just a step or two better. Sort of in the same way that a DIPA is not all that much different from an IPA, but is usually way better. Hid alcohol well. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured clear, medium yellow (almost gold really) with nice carbonation and a small, white head that mostly diminished and left virtually no lacing. The aroma was moderate caramel malt, light grass hops and corn. The initial flavor was moderately sweet and lightly acidic; while the finish was moderate to heavily sweet, light to moderately acidic, lightly bitter and a little sour with an average duration. There was mostly caramel malt then a little grassy hops. The light to medium body was a little syrupy then dry with fairly soft carbonation and a light to moderate astringent finish.

Clear straw yellow pour. A bit fruit and lots of malt on the nose. Very innocuous flavorless beer. Very sweet with a corn syrup like flavor. Some fruitiness. Drinkable, but not much going on here.