Episode 94: Rogue American Amber Ale – Salute the bottle

After a one week break to celebrate Pittsburgh we are back to our Amber series. This week its Rouge American Amber.

News

A 22-year-old man ran out of a Silver Springs Citgo gas station with two cases of Bud Light Sunday night, pulling a knife on a customer who tried to stop him. James Steven Buckman had little time to enjoy the beer, as Marion County sheriff’s deputies soon arrested him at his Econo Lodge motel room across the street. Thats right, he was camped out right across the street!

Rogue’s American Amber Ale

• Tonight’s beer is from the West Coast and is rather widely available.
• We have talked about Rogue in the past, but just to refresh some memories, they are located in Newport, Oregon.
• They are one of the bigger craft brewers in the country, and have a variety of beers out on the market, although as we have talked about on this show before, some of the beers are just re branded versions of the same beer.
• Tonight’s beer weighs in at 5.6% abv, and is made up of four types of malt, two types of hops, and their proprietary Pacman yeast. It won a gold medal in the 2006 World Beer Championship.
• The beer pours amber, again not a huge shock here considering the name of the series and all, with a nice creamy head on top.
• The aroma has some citrusy and hoppiness notes there, but there is some malt backbone there to give the beer some body.
• The taste is more of that same balance, just enough hops to give it a little bite and just enough malt to make the beer stick around in your mouth and want the hops to be there.
• This really is a very well balanced beer. I would say this is a great session beer, one that you an have several of and not be too overwhelmed. It is moderate in alcohol so you won’t get too drunk of several of them as well.

Next Week

Well next week we will be heading back to Pennsylvania and Tröegs Nugget Nectar, a beer that I don’t have but Jake does.

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