Rogue Dry Hopped St. Rogue Red Ale

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Amber Ale
Newport, Oregon USA

Not really much to this one I’m afraid. Pours a nice looking amber, but falls short in every other way. Some notes of malt and hops, but the flavor is just mostly flat and boring. Very plain.

Bottle pours beautiful amber color with very thin tan head. Aroma is citrus and pine. First taste is hops bitterness, some sweetness but hops is the main flavors in this beer throughout. The finish is bitter hops.

Hearty red/brown pour with solid head. Malty sugary goodness with quiet hops in the back which slowly assert themselves with grapefruit, pineapple and pine notes. Caramel and vanilla touches are in there for balance, light scothcy, earthy, peaty and fruity with a dusty hop predominance.

Dry hopped version from the bottle. Dark red-brown, with a lacy head. Somewhat cloudy. Huge aromatic hop aroma, with lots of citrus, pine. Nice round caramel malt background. Very appealing and very well balanced aroma, though hop-centered. Strong hop flavor. Very citric and bitter. Malt somehow falls behind. It is nice, but kind of lost. Traces of caramel and dark fruits, but not enough. Very long, bitter, citrus finish. Appealing in some ways, but way out of balance. Very disappointing after the regular one. I’m not sure what happened, but the malt character is gone.

12oz bottle, dry hopped. Served in a Bells snifter. The aroma is caramel, pine, toffee, rum, brown sugar, dark fruits, and a small amount of citrus, earthiness, and floral notes. The Chinook and Centennial are very piney and reminiscent of old school KB. Reddish amber color with a one fingered tan head. The taste is very malty, at first, with caramel, toffee, fruitcake, and molasses followed by a strong and pungent old growth pine forest, all resinous pine and fertile earth. Someone may have planted a cannabis plant in the forest, away from prying eyes. This beer takes a far different approach to the style as did the Mac and Jacks I had last week. Like most Rogue beers, it is aggressive, but enjoyable.

Noted at the Public House as ’Dry Hopped Red.’ Clear copper and off-white head, nice lacing. Both malt and floral hop aroma in the nose. Creamy maltiness and hop flavor. Not a big brew but nice thick mouthfeel. Very nice.

12 oz. bottle. Pours an opaque amber color with a light white head. Aroma of caramel and floral hints. Hoppy biterness. Light to medium bodied with a bitter finish.

Very red in colour (funny that!) with a thin creamy head. A touch of haze as well. I’m starting to get a feel for the house style here as the nose is loaded up with sweet liquored hops, along with a fruity / estery character as well. Sweet spices too. Mega attractive. One sip quickly tells you the flavours are more traditional; bitter dry herbs early, followed by a thickening hop character that gets marginally sweeter on the finish. To my tastes quite bitter for the style.