Rogue Dads Little Helper

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

22oz bottle. Poured a orange/yellow color with just a touch of haze and almost no head. The smell is light and sweet with a touch of corn. The flavor is sweet and mild with a bit of a dry finish. Drinkablility is ok, the sweetness starts to get to be too much by the end of the 22oz. Fine at first, but after 22ounces it wears out its welcome.

Bomber. Body is transparent gold with quite active carbonation streaming to the top, but in spite of this the head is pretty minimal. Aromas are blank... nothing except some malty sweetness with a metallic edge. Flavor is sharp and abrasive. Compared to other malt liquors this is decent. Compared to beer, it sucks.

<b>Bottle 650ml.</b>
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted, moderate hoppy, resin. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (100908)

Pours a pale straw yellow with a lasting thin but dense white head. Bland malty aroma, light hops. Tastes like creamed corn, bland hops, pretty sweet and well executed for the style.. but man. Apples, light peach character. Good carbonation, thin pinched body & finish. What was I expecting, really?

Pours pale golden with a tall lasting head and good residual lacing. Aroma: NIL. Very full nectar (high viscosity), I almost choke to swallow. Residual effers: few and far between. A viscous malt backbone applies smothering pressure to my carotid artery. I need a plunger to get this down. At least it has an enjoyable flavor compared to others in the style. Molasses, apple and peach pulp nectar, cola gummy bear. The finish is mildly sweet. Not bad for the style.

Brown bottle, 650 ml, purchased at deVine & Wines (Edmonton), savoured on October 17 2008; eye: golden, clear, good effervescence, white head that falls and turns into a sheet full of holes, light lacing; nose: corn, caramel, light malt; mouth: velvety, corn, caramel, light malt, finale in sugary corn, rather sweet, cloying, medium body, sticky texture, good carbonation; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 650 ml, achetée chez deVine & Wines (Edmonton), savourée le 17 octobre 2008; œil : dorée, claire, bonne effervescence, mousse blanche qui tombe et se transforme en une couverture trouée, légère dentelle; nez : maïs, caramel, léger malt; bouche : velouté, maïs, caramel, léger malt, finale en maïs sucré, plutôt sucrée, toquante, corps moyen, texture collante, bonne carbonatation; en résumé : ordinaire

pours a hazy gold with a medium tight white head. Aroma is burning dust, a little plastic, very light berry fruit tones. Aroma is grainy malt, corn syrup sweetness. Light grassy hop presence.

Pours kinda hazy goldenrod that turns transparent straw yellow with backing light. Nice 2 fingers of white head but predictably poor retention and lacing. I know there’s no rice in this beer but the aroma is ricey and of course corny. The signature blandness of pale malts and a fleeting berry sweetness. The crystal hops used are supposed to be noble but I don’t really smell any spiciness. Flavor is part water cracker and part corn syrup. The beer vanishes from the palate upon the swallow, leaving just a metallic tinge and a belch. Obviously better than cheapo malt likka but not a good beer by any standard.