Rogue Brewing
A New Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Flavor: Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Banana Ale
Rogue Ales (Newport, OR) made a real splash in the beer world when then unveiled Voodoo Donut Ale. In honor of a Portland Oregon based Voodoo Donuts breaking the world record for largest box of donuts (666 lbs), the brewery made the first Voodoo Doughnut ale- Maple Bacon Porter. Brewed with real bacon, maple syrup, smoked malt, and vanilla beans. I believe there were even media kits running around that had a pink condom in it.
Looks like another edition is on the horizon – Voodoo Donut Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana. By the looks of it, this beer is modeled after the Memphis Mafia donut. (Elvis inspired? See below.) As it’s predecessor, looks like big painted pink bottles again for this edition.
Style: (w/ Banana Extract, Peanut Extract, Chocolate)
Hops: Rogue Farms Revolution, Independent
Malts: 2-Row, c-150, c-175, Carafoam Special II, ChocolateAA
Availability: 25.4 oz bottles
Arrival: TBA
5.3% ABV
Rogue Batch 15,000 Is A Belgian Style Stout
Following up on a previous article – Rogue brewmaster John Maier is marking his 15,000th batch of beer with a special release. Batch #15,000 mystery beer should be unveiled today. The style? A Belgian-style stout. More from Rogue coming soon.
Mystery Rogue Beer: 1515 Beers Of Batch 15,000
Rogue Brewing will be releasing a very special and very small batch of the 15,000th batch of beer that brewmaster John Maier has brewed. The (now famous) beard and the man behind it has been brewing at Rogue in Oregon since 1989. As John embarks on his 15,000, a special Brew 15,000 will be released in a tiny quantity of 1,515. What is it? We’ll know soon. [Facebook]
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Zymurgy’s Best Beers In America 2012
Zymurgy Magazine, the official Journal of the American Homebrewer’s Association just published their results from the reader’s rankings. For the 4th year in a row, Russian River’s Pliny The Elder takes 1st place. Bell’s Two Hearted and Dogfish Head 90 Minute aren’t far behind for best IPA in the country. Interestingly, the harder to find Pliny The Younger ranked at the other end of the list, at #48.
More than 16,000 votes were received in this years vote. Check out the full story for brewery rankings. (T= Tied) [AHA]
| 1. Russian River Pliny the Elder |
| 2. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale |
| 3. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA |
| 4. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale |
| 5. Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale |
| 6. Bell’s Hopslam |
| 7. Sierra Nevada Celebration |
| 8. Stone Ruination IPA |
| 9. Sierra Nevada Torpedo |
| 10. North Coast Old Rasputin |
| 11. Firestone Walker Union Jack |
| 12. Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye |
| 13. Bear Republic Racer 5 |
| 14. Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale |
| 15. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA |
| 16. Firestone Walker Double Jack |
| T17. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA |
| T17. Sierra Nevada Bigfoot |
| 19. Stone IPA |
| 20. New Belgium Fat Tire |
| 21. Deschutes Black Butte Porter |
| 22. Avery Maharaja |
| 23. Founders Breakfast Stout |
| 24. Left Hand Milk Stout |
| T25. Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA |
| T25. New Belgium Ranger |
| T25. Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale |
| 28. Deschutes The Abyss |
| 29. Goose Island Bourbon County Stout |
| 30. Surly Furious |
| T31. Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin |
| T31. Rogue Dead Guy |
| T31. Samuel Adams Boston Lager |
| 34. Troegs Nugget Nectar |
| T35. Lagunitas IPA |
| T35. New Belgium La Folie |
| T37. Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron |
| T37. Founders KBS |
| T37. Russian River Blind Pig IPA |
| 41. Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale |
| 42. Victory Prima Pils |
| 43. Great Divide Yeti |
| T44. Alaskan Smoked Porter |
| T44. Anchor Steam |
| T44. Lagunitas Hop Stoopid |
| T44. Samuel Adams Noble Pils |
| T48. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter |
| T48. Oskar Blues Ten Fidy |
| T48. Russian River Pliny the Younge |
Rogue To Make Beer From Brewmaster’s Beard
A beer made from wild yeast found in the brewmaster’s beard. Another from the – you can’t make this stuff up category, Rogue (Newport, OR) will create a beer from brewmaster John Maier’s beard. Thanks to the yeast geniuses White Labs, samples were collected (cut) from his beard and tested. You guessed it. The samples were able to create a yeast strain suitable for brewing.
According to the brewery, John has been growing the beard since 1978. His response to the beard that changed beer history? “It was in front of me the whole time and it only took two centuries and five decades to grow.”
The beard beer will be called New Crustacean – coming in 2013. [Rogue]
A New Rogue MoM With Rose Petals
Above is a new edition of Rogue Brewing’s Mom Hefeweizen. The hefe features rose petals grown near the brewery in Eugene, Oregon.
Dedicated to the Mom in each of us. Mom Hefeweizen is a refreshing, Belgian style blonde ale, infused with Roses from Eugene, Oregon.
Style: Hefeweizen (w/ Rose Petals)
Hops: Sterling
Malts: Wheat, 2 Row Pale
Availability: 22oz
Arrival: TBA
4.8% ABV
NEW RELEASE: Chatoe Rogue Good Chit Pils
The newest addition to Rogue Brewing’s Chatoe Rogue series Good Chit Pils has arrived. Chit is made with Rogue Farm barley that they floor malted themselves. ( An 8 day process of steeping the grain, germinating it, raking, roasting, bagging, etc.)
Why Chit? Those of the rootlets that emerge fromt the grain during germination. See this for
Style: Czech Pilsner
Hops: Rogue Micro Hopyard Liberty, Czech Pils
Malts: Rogue Micro Barley Farm Dare Floor Malt, Weyerman Acidulated
Yeast: Wyeast 2278
Taste Expectations: Earthy hoppyness, sweet light malts. Crisp, crackery, sweet honey.
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft.
6% ABV
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