Christmastime stout lets sesame-buttered tahini condiment bring nutty toffee sweetness to tart tangerine adjunct and rich dark chocolate creaming. Mild dried cherry, orange and fig illusions dot tangerine chocolate semifreddo dessert knockoff.
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ROGUE DREAMLAND AMERICAN LAGER
Simple, thin, cumulous headed, clear straw lightweight stays crisply silken as unassuming lemony white-wined champagne fizzing fades at the corn-flaked pilsner malt spine.
ROGUE HONEY MAMA’S SANTA’S PRIVATE RESERVE
Creamily chocolate tangerine pureed 2022 winter stout retains cocoa-nibbed citrus distinction. Oats-honeyed chocolate stead welcomes candied tangerine spritz with buttery sesame-seeded tahini influence. Sweetly tart dessert fruited mocha fodder.
ROGUE BATSQUATCH HAZY INDIA PALE ALE
Bold NEIPA lets zesty orange-peeled grapefruit zing surge beyond salt-licked piney hop bittering as well as vodka-licked peach, mango and pineapple auxiliary above gluey cardboard-tinged oated wheat flaking. Up-front tropical fruiting sweetened by creamy vanilla froth.
ROGUE GUMBEROO WEST COAST INDIA PALE ALE
Sharply embittered golden bronze hazed West Coast-style IPA forwards grapefruit-peeled orange pith bite, sour lemon splurge and mild spicing to lingering spruce-tipped piney hop bitterness. Proprietary Pac-Man yeast strain affords pastry-like sweet breading for creamy crystal malt foundation of brusquely pined citrus-bound full body.
ROGUE CHOCOLATE STOUT NITRO
On tap at Yard House – Nyack, lovely nitro-injected stout offers fudgy milk chocolate sweetness to hazelnut-glazed vanilla, milk-sugared medium roast coffee and maple molasses tones contrasting minor dry hopped walnut char. Perfect silken confection.
ROGUE HONEY KOLSCH
Rogue Farms Hopyard Honey supplies the floral honeysuckle wheat dryness to acidulated dextra pils malting as sedate lemon-oiled grassy hop stead and mild froth recall cream ale.
ROGUE BATSQUATCH HAZY INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Schatzi’s – Poughkeepsie, easygoing straw-hazed tropical moderation places mild grapefruit bittering next to orange-peeled tangerine, pineapple and lychee tang above oats-flaked wheat bottom. Simple, pleasurable IPA (despite ghoulish monster image on label).
ROGUE DEAD ‘N DEAD (2021)
On tap at Schatzi’s, judiciously whiskey barreled Dead Guy Ale (2021) soaks original’s honey-roasted caramelization, plum-sugared red cherry sweetness and orange marmalade tang with oaken vanilla rye whiskey tones, dry bourbon perfuming and pasty pine lacquering.
ROGUE NEWPORT NIGHTS WEST COAST INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, heady 9% ABV Imperial IPA seeps gin-soaked grapefruit, mango, tangerine and pineapple tropicalia into rummy molasses sugaring and pine needled citric hop bittering with boozy assurance.
ROGUE COMBAT WOMBAT
On tap at River Of Beer, soured New England-styled IPA utilizes lactic yeast acidity to laminate subtly bitter grapefruit juicing and sweet blood orange tartness. In the recess, dry-hopped lemon-limed passionfruit illusions gain acidulated malting at lightly salted citrus finish.
ROGUE DEAD ‘N’ DEAD AGED IN WHISKEY BARRELS
Extremely popular Dead Guy Helles Bock soaked in Dead Guy Whiskey Barrels retains soft-toned oaken vanilla buttering, creamy sugared malting and tangy orange spicing. Dry rye whiskey sedation soaks into brown-sugared grain malting as well as caramel, toffee, almond and coconut undertones.
