Rogue Dad's Little Helper Black IPA
After the death of his wife, Henry Jackson Smart was left to raise his 6 young children alone. His courage, love, selflessness and dedication inspired his daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, to organize the first Father’s Day on June 19th, 1910. In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. President Nixon, in 1972, established it as a permanent day of national observance.
Dad’s Little Helper Black IPA is deep mahogany in color with roasted malt and hop aromas and dense creamy head. It enters the palate with intense hop flavor and coats the tongue with a rich maltiness from the Rogue Farms Risk Malt.
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Malteries Franco-Belges, Carawheat, Weyermann Melanoidin, Wyermann Carafe Special II & Rogue Micro Barley Farm Risk Malts; Newport, Chinook & Rogue Micro Hopyard Rebel Hops, Free Range Coastal Water.
Dad’s Little Helper Black IPA is deep mahogany in color with roasted malt and hop aromas and dense creamy head. It enters the palate with intense hop flavor and coats the tongue with a rich maltiness from the Rogue Farms Risk Malt.
Beer stats:
Malteries Franco-Belges, Carawheat, Weyermann Melanoidin, Wyermann Carafe Special II & Rogue Micro Barley Farm Risk Malts; Newport, Chinook & Rogue Micro Hopyard Rebel Hops, Free Range Coastal Water.
3.5
491 reviews
Newport, United States
Community reviews
Floral hoppy aroma with Caramelized malt. Taste is malty with a very dry bitter hoppy finish. Piney and resinous, but not as resinous as some, but even more dry than most. Flavors are pretty solid but almost had a dry your tongue out hoppy finish (more than most hoppy beers) which detracts for me.
Poured from the bomber into a shaker. Dark brown/black pour with a tan head. Aroma is roasted malt with some floral hops. Flavor starts with some dark roasted notes and coffee and then the hoppy notes come out - floral and grassy hop notes as well as some peppery notes and light earthiness. Medium bodied with a slightly oily mouthfeel and a long finish. Overall pretty good and very drinkable, just not as hopped up as some of the other Black IPA’s out there.
Bottle: Dark color with a tan head. Floral hop aroma with similar hop flavor. Toasty dry woody finish.
[7082-20150228] 650mL bottle. Soya roasted burnt grains and wood aroma. Slightly hazy, dark brown cola body with a quick foamy off-white head. Roasted wood and grainy flavour. Medium-full body. Good. (7/3/7/4/15) 3.6
Bottle. Rather bitter sharp woody bite and fair op flavors. A better ofering from a mediocre brewery
22 oz bottle at home from backlog notes. Pours dark brown in color with a small off white head. The aroma and flavor have roasted malt, dark chocolate, some general bittering hops but not much in the way of flavor, some earthy notes, not bad, but not worth repeating.
nice foamy tan head but no real lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malts, grain and hints of hops. Taste toasty malts, slightly bitterness from hops. Very enjoyable, and quite drinkable, really liked this one.
From my backlogg:
Sample at Great British Beer Festival 2014. Deep amber beer with an beige head. Chocolate grassy fruity licorice aroma. Hoppy chocolate grassy, licorice,floral flavour.
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.
[ As Rogue Dads Little Helper Black IPA ].
Clear dark black brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, moderate hoppy, pine, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, wood, licorice, pine, roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20140813]
Growler, opaque brown beer, huge, light almond colored head, awesome lacing. Aroma dark fruit, herbal hops (spruce, mint and, fresh grass), and toasted barley. Taste is coffee and milk, citrus rind, a little spruce resin and mint. Palate is light, finish is hops bitter, carbonation moderate. This is a decent black IPA, I’d drink it any time, but it’s not the worlds greatest black IPA.
Bomber poured into a glass -- Pours dark deep brown with lasting tan pillowy head. Aroma is a hint of roast and citrus/grassy hops. Flavor starts with sweet dark crystal malts and is interrupted almost immediately with heavy handed bitterness and finishes with roast malts. A little out of balance. Overall a good experience, but wouldn’t order more than a pint.
Bomber bottle poured a deep dark brown hue w/ a ridiculously enormous lasting tan head and lacing. Mild roast aroma. Initial flavor is light sweet w/ a bold bitter finish. Tastes are burnt toast. Medium bodied and over carbonated. Poured down the drain.
Pretty good showing in the black IPA category. Pours a deep, dark, cola black, with middling head. Aroma of coffee, roasted grain, dark fruit. Flavor is marked by coffee, chocolate, licorice, hop pine, some fruit. Pretty tasty combination.
Old rating. Dark brown. Coffee and citrus hops. Some toffee notes too. Pretty decent black iPa.
bottle @ Party Town / Florence KY --- Clear very dark brown/black color, heavy, sudsy rich tan head, full curtain of lace. Aroma of malt and hops. Taste is rich toasted malt. It moves through the palate fluidly, adding light coffee, then finishing with hard straight hops that linger for a long time. An exceptional brew at 7% abv,
Poured a dark brown body with a quick fading average sized light beige bubbly head. Aroma is hoppy with dark malts and a hint of coffee, light citrus notes. Flaovr is a great combination of malts and hops with citrusy yellow grapefruit and earth. Medium to fuller bodied with stronger fizzy carbonation and a slight lingering bitterness. Pretty good all around and surprizingly good
2015-02-28. Very dark brown body with a small beige head. 3+ Aroma of sweet caramel, cocoa and leafy green hops. Flavour is similar, leafy green hops over sweetish caramel and cocoa base malt. Smooth average body. Decent but doesn’t knock my socks off. Bottle from the LCBO, Toronto.
650 ml bottle from LCBO Hawkesbury (Ontario) on November 28, 2014. Dark brown, medium head. Chocolate and green hop aroma, spicy notes. The taste is about the same, almost like root beer with hops, light bitterness. Interesting but too unusual for it’s style!
It pours black with a brown head that leaves plenty of lacing. It has a sweet smell combined with roasted aromas. There may be a bit of nuttiness to the aroma combined with spicy pop almost like raisins. There is a combination of citrus with roasted malts that combines to make a fairly bitter finish. It has lively carbonation as well.
cereal, roasty, floral, brown, hazy, minimal head, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, oily feel, lively,
650ml bottle from the LCBO in Peterborough, Ontario. Deep brown in colour with a thin off-white head, good lacing. The aroma is of caramel, dark fruits, cookies. The flavour is of light chocolate, caramel sweetness, pine hops, moderate bitterness. Finishes long, hoppy, drying out.
Botella @El Lupulo feroz. .......................................... Oviedo 20/12/2014
Bottle - big foamy head, pitch black color, good size pine hop aroma and flavor, balanced well with mildly roasty malt, very good overall
Belle couleur noire avec des reflets brun et une mousse beige assez résistante. Liquide peu frais de fruits, café, grains grillés... Correct...
Draught at The Euston Tap, London on 10 Mar 2012. Poured a really dark brown, near black, with a dense beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, citrus, pine and burnt sugar. Massive grassy and pine hop flavours, with molasses, coffee and earth. Finish was burnt malt, resin and ash.
Oh, daddy. What a lovely beer. There’s an aroma of boiled lollies, coffee, chocolate and sherbet. The taste is more of the same, with a little more hops s you’d expect. Perhaps a tad short on the palate but otherwise more than pleasant.
This one poured deep amber colour with a tan coloured head. Scents include cooked veggies, molasses, cocoa and kale? First swig was slightly watery texture, medium bitterness and flavours of molasses, tea, burnt malt and light coffee. Finish was burnt bitter with roasty flavours lingering.
Bottle friends of ham Leeds. Black slight red great tan head. Aroma is coffee liquorice roasted malts taste same some molasses sweetness red fruits pine great long roasted bitter finish. Decent oily mouthfeel prickly carbonated. 547818. Good all round looks amazing.
I was hoping for more from this one. Rogue is usually a good go-to for me for any style but this sort of let me down. Not bad by any means but not great. It pours a very dark brown with dark red highlights and a foamy light tan head. Caramel, whole wheat bread and burnt toffee followed by herbal and spicy hops comprise the nose. This starts off pretty smooth, very malt forward and even a bit sweet but then transitions to a very bitter, unbalanced feeling, borderline astringent flavour. I love this style of beer but if it weren’t for the strong malt backbone this might be too much hop-wise. Mid-soft carbonation with a medium body that is very lightly oily. Increasingly bitter finishes starts with dark coffee and ends with raw cocoa.
Pours a fairly clear but dark brown/light black colour with a darker head and good lace. The aroma is stewed fruit with pepper spice that mix well with caramel, light choclate, light roast and finishes with a hoppy resinous note. On the palate it is medium to full bodied, sports a burnt toast and hoppy bitterness on the finish and I get flavours of caramel and malts in the mid palate. Decent length makes this a pretty darn good beer.