Beer - #367 - Rogue - Mocha Porter (a redux)

I'm revisiting the Rogue - Mocha Porter  -  I had this yolks ago - review is here  - This of course brewed by the people at Rogue Ales and it's a style of a  Porter, and they are in Newport, Oregon USA

This is a 330ml bottle of a 5.1 ABV beer, that has 153 calories,  54 IBU things which is high for a porter style, and in total 1.4 standard drinks.

Ruddy brown in colour, a bittersweet balance of malt and hops with a light cream finish. Mocha Porter is made from Northwest Harrington and Klages; 135-165, 95-115, and 70-80 Crystal; Beeston Chocolate, Black, Munich and Carastan malts. Perle and Centennial hops.

So last time I rested this as 7 arbitrary things, and not outstanding. Lets see if the intervening 18 months has done anything.

Chocolate aroma on opening. Dark pour with a decent fluffy and persistent head. Still more chocolate aroma than anything. But it's not big.

Porter burst of sweet fruits, and a tang of coffee/mocha but there isn't a lot of body in this, it's not a full mouth experience.

So much hasn't changed. It's decent without being really good. It's easy drinking but it's also disappointing because I really wanted more fullness and body.

The pdubyah-o-meter rates this as 7 a of its things from the thing. I though this was thin, more fruity and bitter than full and rich. 

It's not that I'm not liking it, I really want to like it more than I am.

The double dip review

1. Am I enjoying it? I'm not not enjoying it


2. Would I have another? Not this time.


3. Would I share with a friend on a porch and set the world to rights? It's more fruity bitter than coffee bitter, it might work.

Listening to Eric Clapton, something called the "Essential" album, it's cruisy for a Sunday.

PORTER

Black or chocolate malt gives the porter its dark brown color. Porters are well hopped and heavily malted. This is a medium-bodied beer. Porters can be sweet. Hoppiness can range from bitter to mild. Porters are often confused with stouts.

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Beer - #96 - Rogue - Dead Guy Ale

Dead Guy Ale, Brewed by Rogue Ales in the style of a  Heller Bock, and they do that in  Newport, Oregon USA.

The Heller Bock is primarily a malty beer from the German brewing tradition with little hop character - neither bitter nor aromatic - though the style typically has a little more hops than the standard Bock. The color is golden to light brown or amber. They should normally pour with a substantial white head. All examples are pale and clear.

This is 6.5% ABV 650ml bottle of beer, which I approach with great  anticipation.

It's all new to me !, so... a fantastic orange golden beer, decent head and a nicely sweet aroma. And it's the same sweet and a lovely hoppy beer. That's a bit good.

This is a beer I could be friends with, if you want to cut to a chase. The pdubyah-o-meter thinks this an 8.5 beer from it's wildly arbitrary scale of things, which makes this a beer to recommend.

Particularly at the end of a day of things this is still a beer where you can explore the hops and not get alarmed by what's being given back, it's a beer that offers instant comfort and companionship. There is a sourness that you'd kind of expect as the backwash from the hops, and this does finish on the palate, it might not appeal to everyone, but it's consistent and just, for me, adds to be whole thing, It's the pants.!

Dear Rogue, please make me your Ambassador for beers, I'd be really good and that, and happy, please. 

Beer – #66 – Rogue - Mocha Porter

Rogue Mocha Porter. A way to end a torrid week.

Brewed by Rogue Ales in the style of a Porter, and this again a visitor from another place, the fabulous Newport, Oregon USA.

650Ml of a 5.1% ABV dark beer then.. or as they put it ....

Ruddy brown in color, a bittersweet balance of malt and hops with a light cream finish. Mocha Porter is made from Northwest Harrington and Klages; 135-165, 95-115, and 70-80 Crystal; Beeston Chocolate, Black, Munich and Carastan malts. Perle and Centennial hops...... so there!

It is dark brown, and I got no head, de nada, nix, and weirdly again no aroma to speak of. It might be a feature of the Rogue beers.  I get a carbination, and then I get a bit of a chocolate (mocha) hit, and that has some good time in the mouth, you know you've had a beer with a flavour is what I'm saying here. There is a tad of chocolate and of smoke.

That is all. But isn't that enough? Well, no to be honest. It's a bit thin. I had an expectation of just a little more, I don't know what, because the mystery guest never was included in this.

These are clearly people with a lot of thinking, and the combinations they have for ingredients and their up-font statement about them is much admirable. Again I don't not love this as a beer, and there are beers shuffling down the pdubyah-o-meter as I write.

What's the most impressive though is that these beers are those that change your perceptions of beer, particularly, mostly born of ignorance, of the US beers. And I like that.

The pdubyah-o-meter based on taste would be 7 isn on the arbitrary scale of things for this, it lacks the jolt or the elusive and all a bit fluffy "wow" factor for me, and you know that I've found beer that has that. Am I disappointed? Heck no, I'm just not blown away.

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Beer – #65 – Chatoe Rogue OREgasmic Ale

Settle down in the cheap seats - Chatoe Rogue OREgasmic Ale, alright.

Brewed by Rogue Ales in the style of an American Pale Ale and unlikely as it sounds this is a rare visitor to the beer fridge from Newport, Oregon USA woop woop holla !!

A bit pint of 650ml of 7% ABV beer, power to the people!

This beer has all of 6 Ingredients, listed as being; Brewed using 100% OREGON Ingredients. Micro Barley Farm first growth Dare™ & Risk™ Malts; Rogue Micro Hopyard Willamette & first growth Independent Hops, Pacman Yeast and Free Range Coastal Water.

Yes well that's all well and good, sounds like a college project beer, mention everything, everyone and do it in that "it really important to know" way. Very American, they should learn the less is more thing.

and that's before I got to open it. When I do it pours the muddy brown colour of a beer, I wish I could pick the aroma, I can't discern one though, and that's strange but not weird.

And almost as a religious experience akin to a rapture this has head for afwica! Get in!!!

Wow! hang on a bit, that's a lot interesting, there's a about a bazillion things that I want to taste first and they're all interesting, for a bit of a back-burner on the aroma this has the goods in the taste department.

Absolutely a Pale Ale. Done. Delivered. Winner!

This is then already without a doubt just a nice beer. There is the sharpness of taste that you get from the hops, but then there is the lovely warmness of the caramel  malts that makes this just plain old interesting. Just all over a fine and dandy thing. Woop wwo holla!

And the head, well that's still about it's business, I'd sit and marvel at that for a bit, except that it's between me and the beer beneath. And Marvel at the drink beneath I do, it carries it hops and it has this marvellous (I want to do that in the Tony Greig Accent) creaminess that I don't know how to describe. To go another cricket thing this one is straight off the middle of the bat. (None of which the Americans will get).

Give it up then for the pdubyah-o-meter.... and this in and of it's genre is 9/10,  arbitrary thing from an equally arbitrary number, and if ever there was a thing to aspire to this would be a thing.  I'd dial back the self promotion label probably. I'd never dial back on the hops, the malts, and all that thing that makes the thing that this is.

Buy this, if you like IPA and American Pale you you don't  like this I'd refund you. Seriously.

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