Dirtoir Black Lager
Rogue Ales & Spirits in Newport, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.32
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Tasting Notes:
Jet black in color with a tan head, medium to full bodied, deftly balanced, seamless dark roasted malt flavors with a smooth bitterness, lingering long finish.
9 Ingredients:
Malts: Melanoidin, Carafe Special II, Black, Chocolate, and Rogue Micro Barley Farm Risk™
Hops: Rogue Micro Hopyard Independent and Revolution.
Yeast & Water: German Yeast & Free Range Coastal Water.
Food Pairing: Seafood, Hot & Spicy
History:
Available nationwide on 1-1-2010, Dirtoir Black Lager is the second in the limited availability Chatoe Rogue series. Dirtoir Black Lager and the brews to follow are all GYO Certified, First Growth, Appellation products made with hops and malt from our Department of Agriculture's Hopyard and Barley Bench.
Jet black in color with a tan head, medium to full bodied, deftly balanced, seamless dark roasted malt flavors with a smooth bitterness, lingering long finish.
9 Ingredients:
Malts: Melanoidin, Carafe Special II, Black, Chocolate, and Rogue Micro Barley Farm Risk™
Hops: Rogue Micro Hopyard Independent and Revolution.
Yeast & Water: German Yeast & Free Range Coastal Water.
Food Pairing: Seafood, Hot & Spicy
History:
Available nationwide on 1-1-2010, Dirtoir Black Lager is the second in the limited availability Chatoe Rogue series. Dirtoir Black Lager and the brews to follow are all GYO Certified, First Growth, Appellation products made with hops and malt from our Department of Agriculture's Hopyard and Barley Bench.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at le mondiale 2011. Jet black pour, looks like a thick stout. The aroma is big on licorice, horehoind root, roasted malts, and some west coast piney hops. The mouthfeel is pretty close to lager like, even though the aroma and flavor scream stout, or porter. Soft carbonation, medium to high bitter finish, some light hops, and alot of malt, and licorice in the finish. It was a great beer, but a schwarzbier? No i dont think so. For that reason only i cant give it a crazy score.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:31
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Solid black lager, sufficiently dark and roasty, adding a yummy charred malt complexity to its lager fruitiness. Pours a lovely deep brown with ample lace, and the aroma hits a welcome smoky mocha note. Tastes rather stout-like at first, with a massive amount of roasted chocolate blending with an apple and apricot-tinted yeasty backbone, yet it remains surprisingly light for a beer with this much dark malt character. Finishes like semisweet coffee with a breadlike undercurrent. Nice.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2017
at 22:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
650 ml. bottle split by 3 @ Delirium Hoppy Loft. Presumably some years on the bottle but I cannot find any date so… Black solid mocha; Nose is lightly metallic soy sauce, umami malts with light mocha. Taste is lightly metallic, soy, surprisingly thick & substantial chocolate body, light charcoal, coffee, dark chocolate. Body feels a bit thinned out but still very substantial. Lovely Schwarzbier. Ingredients mention Free Range Costal Water (seriously, free range water,…. Hahaha).
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2015
at 02:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a jet black pour and color. One finger white to off white foamy head graces the top of the beer in a gentle way. As the head dissipated, semi - thick foamy lacing strings it’s way down the sides of the glass.
The smell was roasty and sweet with a nice coffee bean to chocolate sweetness. A light bitter edge of coffee to touch the aroma pretty nicely.
The taste was sweet, roasty and a light bitter from the coffee edge.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but too much. There was a nice roasty to sweet sharp aftertaste and finish.
Overall, good Schwarzbier I’d have again.
This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a jet black pour and color. One finger white to off white foamy head graces the top of the beer in a gentle way. As the head dissipated, semi - thick foamy lacing strings it’s way down the sides of the glass.
The smell was roasty and sweet with a nice coffee bean to chocolate sweetness. A light bitter edge of coffee to touch the aroma pretty nicely.
The taste was sweet, roasty and a light bitter from the coffee edge.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but too much. There was a nice roasty to sweet sharp aftertaste and finish.
Overall, good Schwarzbier I’d have again.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2014
at 18:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A deep deep dark lager with a thick frothy dark brown head. In aroma, interesting mix of soy sauce, chocolate malt, caramel, quite nice. In mouth, a nice sweetish chocolate with peated notes, coffee grind, lightly smoked, quite nice. Bomber.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2014
at 14:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at La Cerveteca, Barcelona. Pours black with brown head. Roasted malts, chocolate, bit hoppy and smokey.
Tried
from Draft
at
La Cerveteca
on 30 Jul 2014
at 13:05