Rogue HazelNut Brown Nectar

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

Name: Hazelnut Brown Nectar
Date: 06/23/1996
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

Appearance: dark,
Aroma: sweet nut like aroma, lots of smoked peat aroma,
Flavor: good smokey nut flavor and nut aftertaste
-------- /> Name: Hazelnut Brown Nectar
Date: 09/02/1997
Mode: tap
Words: newport

strong fresh hazelnut aroma and flavor, no bitterness, and certanally no peat!
-------- /> Name: Hazelnut Brown Nectar
Date: 09/02/2008
Mode: draft
Source: summits woodstock

Appearance: clear dark brown, fine beige head, streaks of drippy lace,
Aroma: sweet chocolate aroma with a strong but not over the top nutty character,
Flavor: rich sweet chocolate flavor, lots of hazelnut, vanilla sweetness really brings out both the chocolate and hazelnut, very light balancing bitterness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Re-rate: I absolutely adored this beer when I first had it at the Blind Tiger in 1997 ($2/pint happy hour at that!). Since then, I’ve had little tastes and sips and none of them came close to what I remembered. But finally, a shade over 10 years later, I get around to a re-rate. Yeah, I suck. Chestnut brown, bright, thin head. Aroma is mainly a toasty-roasty dark malt. The flavour shows this as well, but brings in a sickly sweet artificial hazelnut element. The body is thin for a Rogue as is the hopping...yeah I know it’s a brown but something has to balance off that syrupy hazelnut. What the hell was I thinking...this is poor.

Bottle, 2006-01-27, 6-3-7-3-14=33
Brown color. Aroma of mature malt. Bitter taste, very original and well conceived, malt, hazelnuts, vanilla, roasted malt… Like a brunch at Coffee House…

Bottle, 2003-07-10, 6-4-6-3-12=31
Brown color. Aroma of fresh backed cake, malt, light hop. Quite good body, stout-like, roasty, nutty. Maybe too weak in the end. Too much monotonous finish: caramel.

Hazy amber with tiny head. Sweet aroma with sweet malt, chocolate and nuts. Sweet flavor with chocolate and nutty notes.

Clear brown with hint of red, medium light tan head. Aroma is sweet malty, with a hint of the promised hazelnut. Flavor is full-bodied malt with distinct hazelnut. Finshes nice and smooth, mostly sweet with only the slightest hint of bitterness.

From the Bottle at Tom’s Ultimate Glasgow Tasting, Blackfriars 01/12/2007 Chocolate aroma. Amber red coloured and fruity with a crisp and slightly dry chocolaty finish.

Bottled. Dark muddy brown color, very small off-white head. Nutty, roasted aroma. Sweet hazelnut flavor. Medium-bodied. Very long nutty, hazelnut aftertaste.

Mahogany with a red hue and an incredibly delicious and creamy head. The aroma is full and nutty with notes of sweet coffee. The flavour is fantastic and very well balanced and incredibly smooth, full-bodied and practically without any bitterness. It has notes of nuts, chocolate, sweet coffee, Red Caledonian pipe tobacco and a very long finish. A work of art in bottle - and every mouthful makes me go: AHHH....