Rogue FestiveAle

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Saison
Newport, Oregon USA

pours a cloudy amber with an average fizzy white head and fair lacing. aroma of grassy hops, earthy, leaves with a dry taste. slightly sweet on the finish. decent but certainly not their best.

bottle. this one reminds me of my third homebrewed batch. not bad at first but as you get into it you want to drink it less and less. it pours a lot clearer than my homebrew did. pours a clear golden with a huge pillowy head. aroma is dusty malty and yeasty. taste is rubbing alcohol way over spiced with a bit of old stale orange peel. couldn’t drink but one of these.

Not a big fan of this one, personally. Poured a decently attractive golden clear with a thick head. Aroma was sour, kinda like a decent sparkling white wine. Taste was less sour, grainy malts, a little hop bitterness, a little nutmeg perhaps, and some light fruit. Light-medium body, but not watery, and very sticky mouth feel after the finish.

22 oz Bottle. Deep red pour became light cloudy orange once the yeast sediment was added. Fruity, barnyard aroma very characteristic for a saison. In fact, the smell was to me exactly how you would expect something extremely fresh and clean (spring water) to smell. It was very pleasing and relaxing and I really enjoyed it. Flavor was much more subdued though still had the nice funky and fruity flavors you’d expect in a saison. This was a very nice brew; I’m surprised it’s rated so low.

Bottle. Hude head on gold murk sledge cider looking stuff. Hoppy funk dirt barn aroma with a little orange spice. foam sud cloud head. A little hop, little bitter, dry, only the faintest sweetness, salty. apple pear, a little cidery. Different from what I usually drink and consequently a bit hard to describe, kinda fun, but not massively appealing. re-rate on tap at monks - same overall score, didnt know it was same beer (called rogue saison). spicy suacy pepper coriander aroma. usual suspects. orange amber with medium white right head. alcoholic grass-lemon farmy, oranges. OK. alky and watery at same time. gum. So-so.

on tap at the Brickskeller. A very pleasent, easy drinking siason. I was rather pleased. My main opinion was that it was really, really smooth.

A saison looking for a raison? Very zesty - highly carbonated, zesty as in citrusy, and the combination just seems to aggravate the other. I managed to enjoy this while turning my head at awkward angles with an expression befitting a confused dog, because that’s what I wound up feeling like trying to put a finger on what was going on with this beer.

Golen orange color with a large frothy white head. Herbal aroma, with some citrus and grass notes. Lightly sweet, some wheat, light note of vanilla and bitter orange peel. Light soapy notes. Citrus and some earthy bitterness in the finish.