Rogue Chatoe Rogue First Growth Pumpkin Patch Ale

While in Asheville, I picked up a bottle of Rogue Chatoe Rogue First Growth Pumpkin Patch Ale at Appalachian Vinter. The beer pours a brown color with a bubbly cream colored head that leaves a light lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of pumpkin, cream, nutmeg, allspice, caramel, and cinnamon. The taste is bursting with pumpkin and caramel with a nice nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice compliment. A hint of graham and a lightly dry hop finish accompanies the sweeter aspects of the beer. The alcohol content is 5.6% ABV. This was a really nice pumpkin beer with a very complimenting profile. The hop finish was also a nice reminder that it was a beer and not just pumpkin pie in a bottle.

Rogue John John Dead Guy Ale

I ordered a glass of Rogue John John Dead Guy Ale from Al’s of Hampden. The beer pours a golden color with a thin filmy white colored head. The aroma consists of caramel, oak, grass, and a powerful whiskey smell. The taste is strong and bold with whiskey on the front end that brings out a hint of peat and smoke, but it isn’t too overpowering. Oak dryness and light caramel flavors come out in the background, and grass lingers behind on the tongue. The alcohol content is 6.4% ABV. I enjoyed the whiskey aspect of this beer, as it provided a nice accent. Peat can be enough to make me dislike a beer, but it was subtle and complimentary rather than overbearing.

Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale

I brought a bottle of Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale to a New Year’s Eve party to share. The beer pours a caramel color with a frothy white head and has bits of bacon suspended in the liquid. The aroma consists of bacon, smoke, maple, caramel, sugar, and bread. The taste is dry and extremely smoky with a hint of bacon. There was a moment where it tasted like Band-Aids. The alcohol content is 5.6% ABV. While this beer was not as bad as I've heard, it also was not overly enjoyable. I’m glad I brought the 22-ounce bottle to share, as I would not have been able to finish it myself. I also will not buy this beer again, but it was a fun thing to sample once.

Rogue Mocha Porter

I ordered a glass of Rogue Mocha Porter while at TJ’s 8th Anniversary Party in Paoli. The beer pours a black color with a frothy tan head. The aroma consists of coffee, chocolate, mocha, vanilla, milk, and caramel. The taste is smooth but dry with lots of milk chocolate, mocha, and coffee on the front end. It is a light bodied beer with a vanilla and dry oaky finish. The alcohol content is 5.8% ABV. For the dark flavors in this beer, it was rather easy drinking and quite enjoyable.

Rogue Dead Guy Ale

I’ve had Rogue Dead Guy Ale before, and I’m not sure why I never reviewed it, so here is my review. The beer pours a golden orange color with a foamy white head. The aroma consists of sweet malts, caramel, alcohol, toffee, and butterscotch. The taste is smooth and round with lots of malts, toasted caramel, toffee, and butterscotch. The finish is lightly dry with some pine and floral hops and has an after taste of grassy and earthy hops. The alcohol content is 6.5% ABV. This is a wonderfully crafted maibock and stands as a great example of the style, with an excellent hop accent that keeps it from being too sweet.

Rogue 21 Ale

I picked up a bottle of Rogue 21 Ale from Latimer Deli in Philadelphia, PA. The beer pours a dark amber color with a lofty and frothy off-white colored head. That aroma consists of pine, lemon, caramel, and alcohol. The taste is malty with a little bit of cardboard flavor, caramel, pine, lemon, orange, molasses, and earth. The finish is dry and taste of toasted toffee and just a hint of licorice. The after taste leaves a bit of a metal flavor in it, probably due to the metal growler bottle that the beer comes in, but it subsided with the second glass. The alcohol content is 7.79% ABV. Despite being a “Strong ale”, I thought this beer was relatively mild, especially with it’s hop content. No flavor was overbearing and well balanced with the others.

Rogue Yellow Snow IPA

While at Buffalo Blues for my birthday, I ordered a glass of Rogue Yellow Snow IPA. The beer pours a golden color with a frothy white head. The aroma consists of lemon with a good caramel base and a light pine accent. The taste is loaded with lemon and pine with a good caramel backbone. The beer has a dry floral finish as well that dries out the mouth. The alcohol content is 6.2% ABV. I really enjoyed this IPA, as it balanced citrus and pine hops nicely, all sitting atop a caramel backbone.

Rogue Santa's Private Reserve

I ordered a glass of Rogue Santa's Private Reserve while out for my birthday in Pittsburgh at Buffalo Blues. The beer pours an amber color with a filmy white head that is barely present. The aroma consists of caramel and sweet malts. The taste is sweet at first before toasted malts kick in and dry out the mouth. Helping the dryness as well is that cinnamon comes out to play as well. The alcohol content is 6.0% ABV. All of the flavors in this beer come together is a nice spiciness that is balanced well with sweet malts.

Rogue Mogul Madness

I ordered a glass of Rogue Mogul Madness from Max's Taphouse in Baltimore. The Rogue Mogul Madness is a Black IPA and pours a dark brown color with a frothy white head. The aroma consists of lemon and pine with caramel. The taste is dry with lemon and pine, spruce, and a good caramel finish. Overall, the beer is big on lemon but not as black in color as expected. The alcohol content is 6.2% ABV. I enjoyed the lemon and pine profile of this beer as it balanced out the caramel sweetness from the beer. The spruce accents only made it more enjoyable to drink.

Rogues Chocolate Stout with Rogue Hazelnut Rum

At the Beer for Boobs brunch held at Fresh Craft in Denver, the Women in Beer crew brought some Rogue spirits with them for additions into the draft beers. Naturally, I ordered a glass of Rogue Double Chocolate Stout, to be accompanied with a shot of Rogue Hazelnut Rum. The beer pours a black color with a thin filmy tan head. The aroma consists of chocolate and hazelnut. The taste mostly consists of chocolate with some oak accents as well. The profile of the beer was changed somewhat with the sweet hazelnut finish. The alcohol content is the Double Chocolate Stout is 8.0% ABV, but the rum definitely increased the alcohol content somewhat. The Hazelnut Rum completely made an amazing beer incredible, and I would like to continue adding the rum to my Double Chocolate Stouts in the future. But there is one caveat, the extra shot catches up with you.

Rogue Somer Orange Honey Ale

I was given a bottle of Rogue Somer Orange Honey Ale for the IT assistance that I provided to my friend's parents. The beer pours a pale yellow color with a bubbly white head. The aroma is full of wheat and light orange citrus. The beer is very light bodied and tastes sweet with honey at first and a light coriander spice. There is a good amount of wheat flavor and the beer finishes with an orange citrus taste. There is a light hint of honey on the back of the tongue. The alcohol content is 5.2% ABV. I thought the beer was heavily carbonated, and maybe a bit too much, but it was a light and refreshing beverage.

Rogue Imperial Red Ale

The final beer I have to review from my Fourth of July drinking festivities is the Rogue Imperial Red Ale. The beer pour a dark brown with a hint of red. The aroma is filled with hops and is very floral. The taste was sweet at first, but had a very hoppy after taste. The alcohol content is 9.0% ABV. Overall, I wasn't too into this beer due to the amount of hops included, but it was a drinkable beer that was slightly enjoyable. I recommend starting the day with this beer rather than trying to drink it later in the day after a few other beers.