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.

Mikkeller Beer Geek Bacon

On a recent visit to TJ’s Restaurant & Drinkery, I ordered a glass of Mikkeller Beer Geek Bacon, or Rausch Geek Breakfast. It is known as the latter in the States due to the fact that it contains no actual bacon and the FDA will not permit the beer to be advertised that way. It’s flavors comes from the smoking of the malts, not by adding bacon. The beer pours a black color with a thick frothy tan head. The aroma consists of bacon, toasted malts, smoke, chocolate, and molasses. The taste is thick and heavy with plenty of chocolate flavor and lots of smoke. Toasted malts also appear up front before the bacon comes in on the finish with molasses. The after taste has a vanilla sweetness that removes the smoke from the mouth. The alcohol content is 7.5% ABV. The Beer Geek Bacon had a really good flavor without providing too much smoke or bacon flavors and I would definitely seek this beer out again.