Wow. What a great beer.
When we asked people to bring us bottles of beer for our 10th anniversary in February, our chum Nick presented us with a bottle of Rogue’s Smoke Ale.
We had a feeling it might be special and, as often happens, that’s stopped us drinking it.
Tonight, after a particularly successful day’s brewing, it felt like the right time to crack it open.
It smells, as expected, like bacon, but once that’s died away with the big fluffy head, there’s a lot of zesty hops and a crisp malt flavour which beats the pants off a lot of dunkels we had on our recent German jaunt. It’s top fermented and that might be why it reminded us a little of a brown ale.
So, like we said at the top, a great beer, and inspirational. We have to make something like this now!
Bailey
2 replies on “Rogue Smoke Ale”
Those Bamberg smoked malts are easy to find; Weyermann distribute them. But for alder smoked malt, you really only have two options I know of DIY or the Folsom Brewmeister http://www.folsombrewmeister.com/servlet/-strse-grain-cln-smoked/Categories
At $3/lb + shipping they are a bit dear though.
*LUST* That is a Rogue I haven’t yet tried but almost every beer I’ve had by them has been at least good, but the best has been mind blowing. I think I need a trip to Utobeir to stock up on some of the Shakespeare Stout…though I don’t think they have the Smoke Ale there.