Rogue Farms 10 Hop IPA
Rogue Ales

Copenhagen 30/6 2019. 65 cl bottle from Meny, Rotunden, Hellerup. Print directly on the bottle. The number 10 spelled with hop flowers. Seems to have a ABV of 10,10 %. Cute.

Pours hazy amber with medium-sized yellowish head. Settles as thin layer of foam just covering the surface of the beer. Clinging to the sides of the glass. Moderate lacing.

Aroma is intense, sharp, fermented and boozy. Sweet malts, exotic fruit in fermented decay, alcohol. harp, harsh sour bitter notes. Light citric notes almost drowning in the booze.

Light carbonation. Medium thick, oily, soft, slightly sticky, almost flat texture.

Flavor has a strong sweetness followed by a strong bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter with a deep, sweet undercurrent. Lingering. Light boozy burn.

Nice DIPA finding the balance on the sweetish, boozy and fermented side.

Rated 7-14-2018. All I remember about this beer was it was really good. Both ABV and IBUs are up there which I enjoy. It makes for a nice sipping beer. Another brewery that I really like. 86 IBUs

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know if this beer was just super underpitched when they brewed it or what, but the acetaldehyde was off the charts. The taste was a blast of sickly sweet green apple that just tasted like that old homebrew you forgot was in your fridge from a year ago and decided to pop open for the hell of it. Color was a thick orange/brown, little aroma, no hop character, just awful all around. I distinctly remember one of my first extract beers I ever made tasted just like this, its just a poorly made beer that tries to compensate by throwing as many unnecessary ingredients into it as possible. Very disappointing especially as it comes from Rogue.

 

 

A true story here for your reading pleasure: while spending a month back home in Hungary with my wife, I had the chance to sample through the best of the new craft beers made there. Of course I was in particularly interested in many of them so I spent practically every day with tasting a few bottles every night. However the "production line" beer sampling got to a point when it became a bit, should I say, boring?
Then I finally opened this Rogue up because it had been waiting in the fridge for way too long - and as much I like and I am proud of our own, Hungarian craft beers, this Rogue (that is, by the way, one of my favorite breweries) came and conquered in an instant. It simply made all the dozens of beers that I had during this one month feel almost irrelevant.
I loved how dense and hoppy it was, let alone the Hopyard Honey that is in it, making altogether a fantastic experience of drinking something divine. It also made me realize again, once and for all, that talent and masterfully grown ingredients are what make a true craft beer truly outstanding. Much better than any of the beers in the same Series (4, 7, 9 Hops etc.) that I've had.

 

 

 

Thanks to Libation Station for having this on draft. Poured from 32 oz. growler into pint glass.

Dark amber/orange color with little or no head and lacing. Probably because it's in a growler.

Smell is old school hoppy with hints of biscuity malt. Nice

Taste is old school dipa. Smack in the face hops but kind of balanced. More piney than citrus in the hops. Me likee.

Mouthfeel is good. I would expect some hop oil on my tongue but there is none. Nice lingering bitterness though.

Overall a really good dipa. If you like Avery's Maharaja you'll like this one. Very similar and really good.

22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Pours very hazy medium orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky cream colored head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, papaya, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, honey, toasted biscuit, light caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. A bit too malty/muddy aromas. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, honey, and bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, papaya, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, honey, toasted biscuit, light caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, papaya, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, honey, toasted biscuit, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, honey, and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 10.1%. Overall this is a delicious DIPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, honey, and bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish; not overly aggressive. Very juicy, dank, and earthy hop complexity; with balanced honey/bready malts. Not overly sweet/heavy from lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example. Their farm hops always feel pretty classic/old school on flavors.