Rogue Double Dead Guy

Rogue Double Dead Guy Ale
Rogue Ales, Newport, OR
Grade: A

I never cared much for regular old Dead Guy, but the Double's matte fire-engine red bottle always caught my eyes at the liquor store, so here it is... 22oz bottle poured into oversized pilsner glass. Pours a hazy copper-amber with a tall, sticky, sand-colored head that fizzles away a bit before it floats around indefinitely, trailing a moderate lacing. Massive and unmistakable nose of fruit pastries, complete with pie crust, peach, cherry, nutmeg and sweet cinnamon. Hope you left room for dessert... Big bready caramely roasty malts roll out the carpet and turn up the PA for a textbook Rogue hop bouquet, coming on strong with resins and crisp pine, riding a wave of ripe stonefruits, fading out on a gentler lavender and citrus tang. Leaves a unique spicy tingling long after you've finished sipping. Whew! This is one badass mutha of a maibock (a doppelmaibock...?) Dig it, and dig the sweet painted bottle.

Andrew