Rogue's new Beard Beer (yeast cultured from brewmasters John Maier's beard)

[shoreman]

This is a far reaching marketing ploy, and lame at that - what happen to the awesome company that put out nice hoppy beers in bombers?

The whole brewer as a celebrity thing is a little nuts and this just proves it.

 

[user 108580]

Had the beer last night. It's really nice. Nuthin über special but its crisp with pear and banana notes. A little bit of clove as well. I enjoyed it.

 

[drainbamage]

Thats AWESOME! The second link is for a yeast that was cultured from: "Vaginal isolate from patient recently treated with Clotrimazole, Antwerp, Belgium." - Now that sounds like an interesting yeast to try, huh? If I had to choose between those two you posted I would have to go with this one over the one taken from the stool sample.

Well, apparently this was pretty popular...

http://http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/04/18/elephant-dung-beer-sells-out-almost-immediately/

 

[elsphinc]

It was ok, I couldn't get over the hair thought tho, it lingered on the back of my brain.

 

[David_Trucks]

The donut beers aren't good. The beard beer is very good. I had it months ago (I live in oregon) and it is very complex and surprisingly flavorful.


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[Jayslay]

I had the beard beer at a Beer and Cheese tasting night a few months back. I found it a little funky, almost like a Belgian strain. It definitely had some complexity, but the funkiness kept me thinking about beard hair. I found the beer to be good but not something I would buy again.

 

[cjgenever]

C'mon people, do you have any idea how much urine, feces, bugs, etc. You ingest in a lifetime? This stuff was scrubbed in a biology lab. Wake up people, your no cleaner than a dog who licks its own ass. The ones who are cleaner are germaphobes and are sick with skin legions and poor immune systems due to the way they live.

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[Jayslay]

Sometimes peoples senses are linked to psychology. Five dollars says you wouldn't drink a beer made with bacteria/yeast from a dogs ass, even if it was scubbed, purified and cultured in a lab setting.

 

[cjgenever]

Haha! It's on! Find me some dog poo beer :beer:

I would, however, be tentative of dog poo homebrew. If I can find someone@the university to pull some yeast out of crap I will brew it.

We need to name it though. Maybe DCIPA?

I see your bet and raise you... if I can brew it I send you a bottle as well!

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[jalmeida]

I agree about Rogue's over gimmicky approach to beer. They have truly whore'd themselves out IMHO. However, gross? The thought if it most certainly is. But all of those Belgian open wild fermented beers have yeast from things you probably wouldn't even want to know about(rat feces, decaying plants/animals, urine etc...). It is just easier to not know about where it comes from. Kinda like hotdogs. The real bad part is a brewery that can truly make great beer has proven that it doesn't matter what they make, somebody will buy it. I won't buy the beard beer. But not because of the beer involvement. Because I believe they have turned the craft brew crowd into a joke.


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[cheesehed007]

Kinda like hotdogs.



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[cjgenever]

You have to wonder though, if a brew buddy showed up with beard beer BEFORE rogue did it. I know I'd say cool, way to do it out of the box! I'd out a gimmick or just a funny guy? Hard to know.

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[Fermented_minds]

The donut beers aren't good. The beard beer is very good. I had it months ago (I live in oregon) and it is very complex and surprisingly flavorful.


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I isolated and cultured this yeast, and its really amazing. A lot of the character from the beer comes from the yeast. It has a Belgian type character. Really good stuff!


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[OleBrewing]

I have a decent five inch beard and a stash that hasn't been trimmed in half a year, every beer I drink I seem to get a dribble down the beard and screened through the soup saver. I am sure I have lots of beer yeast floatn around in my beard, not saying rogues yeast is not wild but I would say there is a chance it is from another beer he may have drank. Maybe breakfast beer before work.