Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Sweet malty noise with a hint of pepper, but very mild. Nice cream colored head with thousands of tiny bubbles that disipates fairly rapidly to a very nice lace. A nearly perfect redish amber body that is clear. Mouthfeel is all in the back of the pallete, clean and soft. Initial taste is a bitter hops but it is rapidly followed by a nice malty sweet and sour hit. Finish is clean and tart. Not very complex but it shouldn't be complex. Not a ton of taste but perfectly balanced. ABV unknown but I am guessing high 4's. A really well done American version of a classic Irish Red Ale, I am going to have to pick up a 6 of Smithwicks and tatste these side by side. This is a VERY well done ale.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Aroma liquorice, fruit, floral and a hint of citrsus and pine and toasted malt. Light fast tight head off white in color. Pours a beautiful clear medium copper color. Disipates rapidly leaving a lingering, nice lace. Mouthfeel is smooth, soft and tingly but a little watery. Plenty of bitter hops in the taste perhaps too much for style, mild malty sweetness, aftertaste a bit sour. An OK American Pale Ale offering but not really the English Style is proclaims. Very drinkable though.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

First thing I noticed was a real lack of aroma. Almost no nose at all. Ever so slight hint of fruit. After it warmed a bit there was an added scent of slightly sour bread. Small head that dissapears very rapidly with almost no lace. Moutfeel is clean. Falvor was, to me, suprisingly hopped at the outset..I was expecting a bit more bread in the palate, ends with a bitter hops flavor and a hint of skunk. All in all a dissapointment. I wonder if this bottle had not been properly cared for. Although it had similarities to the rogue chipolte but then again they came from the same store at the same time. Will be interesting to read other's reviews. At this point I am unlikely to purcahse another Rogue offering.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 3

The quintessential euro-skunk! This used to be a favorite of mine before I drank any good beer and stacked up against Bud I guess you could understand that. Aroma is minimal-skunk, average color and head, moderate lace, slightly slimey mouthfeel, flavor is very light on the hops and in fact very light any flavor except skunk. In an average American bar (a place I spend lots of time in) this used to b the best beer you could buy. Now even my local working man's hangout at least offers some Sammie's.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Ok this is a review from memory. I was flying back to the US from St.Petersburg and we had a layover in Helsinki airport. This beer was delightful. It is possible that my shock, upon ordering a beer in an ariport and being given a berverage in a high quality glass mug and then being allowed to wander all over the smallish airport mug in hand, may have colored by enjoyment of this brew. A minimal nose, a lovely golden color and decent head, well balanced taste with a lot of malted sweetness and a fairly clean finish. A fantatic airport brew!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Well if you blindfolded me I might think I was drinking a very mild wheat beer. This may well be due to the fact that I haven't had much experience with true pilsners. Pours with a thick, not quite white, full head that lingers for a moderate time. Leaves a lovely lace on the side of the glass. The nose is what really reminds me of a wheat beer, to me its a slight smell of anise although I suspect its the same note that others refer to as figs. Mouth feel is silky, spectacularly so. Taste is soft and well balanced, the hops are hidden but there. I could take it a little more hoppy but the balance is wonderfully even. Notes of bread and lemongrass in the early taste (bespeaking the balance of the yeast and hops) citrus and grassy flavors in the mid tatse turning to a slighting bitter hoppy flavor and finishing with a VERY clean palate with just a hint of sweetness. The early Bavarian style pilsners were brewed with a hard water whereas the Czech pilsner used a soft water. These differences affected color and flavor significantly as they tended to require different yeasts. I believe this beer is a standard for the Czech (origianl) style of pilsner. This beer is extremly easy to drink, a really high-class session beer at its best. Revisited 1/10 Whats going on, the lace is gone...won't mark that down yet, will revisit again.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

I am not a huge lager fan. This reminded me of the Hams (the beer refreshing) that my dad drank in the 60's. Ok here we go... almost no aroma, standard pee yellow color with thnk fuzzy small-bubbled head that disappears rapidly. Thin in the mouth, flavor actually so so, certainly better than Bud but has a hint of corn and a hint of skunk. Really really cold on a really really hot day chasing a nice slice of soppresatta this might chug nicely, maybe. Rerate 11/08 Uping the scores some, its not so bad for the style but very mild.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

I had this on tap recently and it seemed so much better than in bottles. So this review is for the forced draught. I would have to call this an outstanding beer though perhaps not as true to its style as the bottled version. It is definatley far more balanced then a classic India Pale Ale. Light in color, classic head, very citrus in the nose, extremley drinkable. In a blind tatste test I might not have thought this was an IPA...the hops are there but they are really mellow and balanced.. There is, however, just something magical about the balance in the 60 minute draught, perhaps so well balanced that it disqualifies it from its purported style but if you see this one on tap have one, a really wonderful beer! 5/27/10 Not a re-rate but in the bottle this is not quite as magical and much more spot on for a standard barer IPA. Pretty complex with all the usual notes plus some ripe fruit and very hopy but surprisingly not killer on the bitter. A really great IPA!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 6

I poured this beer quite cold. It had a soft head that very rapidly disappeared to a quite minimal collar. Aroma was pleasing but not very powerful. My wife said it smelled like bread and I don't disagree; a definate scent of sweet yeast mixed with perhaps a very light berry. I really didn't like the first taste, it seemed thin and slightly "chemically" tasting. My impression was astringent and uncomplicated. As it warmed a bit it got a bit better, still a bit chemically to me but a bit more complex now with a pleasing sweetness developing in mid-taste and then the tingle of chipolte in the finish. Definately a dry finish. Some say they don't taste the pepper at all but it is there in the tingle at the back outside edges of the mouth. I frankly can't tatste the smokiness from the Chipotlte that soe describe but I', a smoker so maybe I am desensiitized. I think there could be a good beer in these ingredients, or at least a beer that I would like but I don't think the balance is quite right. Its just a bit too thin and harsh. I would perhaps malt it a bit more or cut down on the hops a bit. It tastes too much of hops and too little of hops, that is to say if they are not going for a predominantly hops flavor then it is too hopppy and and if they want a hoppy flavor they should go for it.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Fantastic head, complex and highly appealing aroma full of fruit and spice, easy on the mouth and incredibly soft for this strong a brew. Tastes as good 30 seconds after you swallow as it does when it first enters your mouth; just a wonderfully clean after-taste. This is that rare beer that sips just as good as it guzzles. The only way I have been able to "nurse" one is by pouring it a third at a time into my glass. And its worth savoring, you get the great head on all three pours and the flavor evolves as it is allowed to breathe a bit. Just an truely fantasic brew...absolutely top 5!