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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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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Dear Elvis, Rogue VooDoo Doughnut Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Ale

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Rogue’s second VooDoo Doughnut beer should be popping up at your favorite beer spots shortly if not already. VooDoo Doughnut Chocolate, Peanut butter, and Banana Ale is the latest tribute to Portland’s Voo Doo Doughnut Shop, which features specialty doughnuts such as a maple bacon bar (which inspired Rogue’s first beer, Maple Bacon Porter), doughnuts with Captain Crunch on top, and doughnuts dipped in everything from bubblegum dust to tang. After the original Maple Bacon Porter receiving mixed reviews, let’s hope that this crazy concoction pleases the palate. Below is the donut the beer is inspired by…

Style: Brown Ale  (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

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Rogue Brewing

A New Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Flavor: Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Banana Ale

Rogue Voodoo Donut Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana

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

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Rogue Brewing

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.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Rogue Brewing

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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by Reid Ramsay
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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
by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Rogue Brewing

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]

by Reid Ramsay
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A New Rogue MoM With Rose Petals

Rogue Mom's Hefeweizen Rose PetalsAbove 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

by Reid Ramsay