Paul's Black Lager

Draft @ pacific standard. Pours dark black with minimal head. Super coffee aroma. Good balance and such.

Sampled on draft at Smokin’ Joes in Pittsburgh PA this beer poured a black color with a medium sized dark brown head. The aroma was dry, bitter and roasty with notes of coffee and floral hops. The flavor was dryish, roasty, toasty and a touch malty with notes of chocolate, coffee and strong floral hops. The finish was long, roasty and hoppy. Medium body. Solid.

On tap at The Front Door Boise as Pauls Dark Lager. Pours out a nice dark brown topped with a nice head. looks like a porter. But doesn’t tast like one. Aroma of light malts and nut. Tast was very light with some hops and a little roast.

On tap at Crunchy’s, East Lansing as Paul’s Dark Lager. Deep nearly opaque brown body, medium cream head. Toasty nose with notes of molasses and caramel. Creamy, soft body, with toast, chocolate, molasses, and soy notes. Fairly bitter finish. Pillowy. Nice beer.

Under the alias of Pauls Dark Lager, tap at TFD Boise. Pours a dark brown with a large tan head. Great lacing. Aroma is roasty and malty with hints of smoke. The smokiness is more pravalent in the flavor, but sits well in balance with the roast and bits of coffee. Some light bittersweet cocoa notes.

Tap @ OTH. Pours deep black, with tan / brownish head.Aroma is roasted and coffeeish. Taste, light oats on the palate, lightly roasted with a light bitter hoppy finish. Very tasty lager, with a dry mouthfeel. Well balanced, awesome feel between the dark malts and hops, make this one an easy drinker.

Clear dark brown ale with a thick moka head. Light moka chocolate aroma with vanilla notes. Light sweet malt in mouth, molasse and caramel, but rather plain. On tap at the CNY Brewfest 2006.

Draught, Cock & Bull
Very dark brown with light brown head. Chocolate nose with some slight molasses accents. Very chocolatey, molassesy with a hint of coffee. Nice, serious American lager.

On tap at the Archer Ale House, Bellingham, 2005
Very dark brown colour. Light toasty coffee nose. Creamy body. Sweet with hints of coffee, nuts. Sweet, straightforward and very quaffable example of the style. 7-4-7-4-16 = 3.6

On draught at Redbones, 10/23/2005. Typical Rogue appearance - Moderate amount of well-retained head, lacing, unfiltered haziness. Color is a deep black with a light mahogany brown edge to it and slight dark auburn tinges on the edge of the glass. Head is off-white. Aroma dosent show much hoppiness, there is a dry, light floral nature, a bit of juicy greenness, but forturnately, no citrus that I can find. Malts are creamy sweet, with brown sugar, milk chocolate and chocolate covered raisins. Flavor begins on a sugary-sweet crystal malt note, which I normally don’t like, but Rogue can do American crystal malts without making them taste boring and "hard" for lack of a better word. A chewy chocolate fudge slowly grows on the palate, while the roast, not far behind, is lightly done and in good taste. Finish has a nice crisp lager yeast, not biting by any means, and you arent going to mistake this for Kostritzer, but clean and noticeably close to-style. The mouthfeel is very chewy, without being heavy, and the light chocolate and nutty roast notes play off of each other nicely. Medium body with no alcohol apparency and low carbonation.