Dad's Little Helper Black IPARogue Ales
Newport, Oregon, USA
Independent
Black India Pale Ale 6.0 % ABV Brown Glass Bottle 650 ml.
$6.60 (Canadian) At the LCBO
Twitter: @RogueAles
What began as one brewpub in 1987 grew into another in 1989 and eventually an innovative and groundbreaking brewery and Distillery. Rogue Ales and Spirits is based out of Newport Oregon and has been at the forefront of the Pacific Northwest Craft Beer boom for the last 25 plus years. Always pushing the boundaries of craft beer higher and further with more hops, strange ingredients and different takes on classic beers. Always challenging the craft beer drinker's palate, Rogue has come up with some very interesting combinations, such as Voodoo Doughnut collabs: chocolate peanut butter banana, and pretzel raspberry chocolate, or the Morimoto inspired black obi soba.
Tonight's offering is a black IPA, fairly new to the craft beer circles around here, but a style that is gaining traction with the beer drinkers who want a bit more depth from their IPAs.
Onto the Tasting...
Dark chocolate brown with a big fluffy tan head made of small bubbles. Lacing is good and strong. Aroma is dark caramel, burnt sugars, deep malts, licorice, and turbinado sugar. Full bodied strong malt flavour grassy with hints of herbs, bittersweet, molasses, ashes, wood. Aeration gives us hay and straw.
Impressions: Fail, So-so, Pass, Exceptional
Cost: 5/6 PASS
Colour: 5/6 PASS
Beer Style: 5/6 PASS
Re-Order: 4/6 PASS
Experience: 5/6 PASS
Final Thoughts:
I was not as excited about this beer as I would have hoped. It is a good beer and worth the price of admission, but compared to some of Rogues other ales, this seemed a lightweight. There was good flavour but not a lot of it, and the beer seemed to be a little hollow through the middle. Not one of Rogue's best. But still worthy of a try.
Cheers
CJT
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