Rogue Dad's Little Helper Malt Liquor
"This ain’t your Dad’s malt liquor" - Brewmaster John Maier
After the death of his wife, Henry Jackson Smart was left to raise 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 Fathers Day. President Nixon, in 1972, established it as a permanent day of national observance.
Dad’s is brewed with Harrington and Klages malts, Flaked Corn, Crystal Hops, Free Range Coastal Water, and Czech Pils Yeast. Available in the spring of 2005 in the classic 22-ounce Rogue micropiece.
Measurements: 17 degrees Plato, IBU 25, Apparent Attenuation 77, Lovibond 10 degrees.
After the death of his wife, Henry Jackson Smart was left to raise 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 Fathers Day. President Nixon, in 1972, established it as a permanent day of national observance.
Dad’s is brewed with Harrington and Klages malts, Flaked Corn, Crystal Hops, Free Range Coastal Water, and Czech Pils Yeast. Available in the spring of 2005 in the classic 22-ounce Rogue micropiece.
Measurements: 17 degrees Plato, IBU 25, Apparent Attenuation 77, Lovibond 10 degrees.
2.6
419 reviews
Newport, United States
Community reviews
Rating number 600. 100% Style Ratings, tried after Einbecker Alkoholfrei, my second to last style rating.
Sweet corn, haylike hoppy characteristics. Pretty damn easy to drink. Tasty. Too expensive for the purpose it’s best suited for, but I really liked this beer. I am really excited to have tried beers in every style on this site, and look forward to trying more and more beers in every style. My long-term goal is to try more of the regional styles in their place of origin, particularly Faro and the various German lagers and wheat beers.
29-APR-2011, bottle @terrasse in Barcelona appartment, from La Cerveteca.
Pours golden with lasting low white head.
Light malty nose with hay’ish notes and light tangerine.
Taste is much the same.
Mouthfeel is quite full - the only trace of the high ABV.
It was fun to try this, only bought it cause it was on sale. I like that they made classy malt liquor. Don’t buy this but if its cheap or given to you, try it or your a prude.
Bottle @ home. A touch hazy, golden yellow appearance with a white head. Sweet pale malty, a touch boozy nose. A touch fruity (apricot, grapefruit), pale malty flavor with some corn. Slight Czech Lager flavor. I really don’t like Malt Liquors but at least this is drinkable.
Okay, so Rogue wanted to show us they could brew just as shitty beer as the big boys. They’ve done so. Good job. Now make more Dead Guy. (2008)
Pours a hazy gold with minimal head. Aroma is of malty cider. Taste is sweet with cider and honey overtones. Ends a bit sour with an alcohol kick in the end.
Pours a clear light orange with a thin white head, aroma has corn and some other stuff, starts and ends lightly nothing, with a something and something, much better than most malt liquors.
Pours light yellow with a slight orange tinge. Its quite translucent and bubbly with a thin white head. The aroma is to be expected for a malt liquor with notes of sweet corn, syrup, and some wheat. The flavor is fairly tasteless and actually a tad yeasty (if anything). There is a sweet corn aftertaste which is not very pleasant at all. Light to medium bodied and very carbonated.
Smelled and tasted of apricots. Almost the same color too. Seemed like and apricot liquor that was carbonated. I was very disappointed in this one. I’ll take a Haffenreffer anytime over this stuff. Poured it down the drain and washed away the taste with a Mike’s Hard lemonade.
I would rather drink a tall can of Old English.
This is like drinking any cheap old malt liquor, except it adds an extra bit of yeasty funk to the nose and the finish.
This beer is gross. I’ll take any macro in the cooler over this abortion.
Pours piss (malt liquor) yellow with a small fizzy white head that is gone quickly. Smells like Hurricane. Tastes a little milder. Not a high carb. So much corn. Not good, but nostalgic.
(bottle) slightly haze orange colour with small wgite head; aroma is slightly fruity; simple, balanced flavour, drinkeable
22oz bomber, no date. Slightly hazy golden yellow with some chunky floaties and a one finger white head, fair retention. Aroma of old cooked corn and stale grain, a little honey sweetness. Flavor has a little more honey sweetness, otherwise the same but tastes better. There is a little alcohol fusel notes toward the semi-dry finish, bitterness peaked at a 2. Low carbonation with a medium body. I did not like this.
A: The pour is a clear golden color with a soapy white head that recedes quickly.
S: This smells like a cheap white/sparkling wine. Very dry and cidery with lots of grape juice, peaches, apple juice, and definitely some significant alcohol contributions.
T: The flavor is pretty much the same as the nose, but sweeter. Apple cider with some white grape juice flavor. There’s still that same cheap wine thing going on and a fair amount of alcohol.
M: The body is medium with the carbonation being a bit high at first before dying down.
D: For a "craft" malt liquor, this is pretty bad. I’d rather have any number of mass produced industrial malt liquors.
Bottle thanks to Tim. Pours clear yellow. Nose of malt and light pepper. Taste of light spiced malt. Mostly, just malt as expected.
Bottle. Pours golden with a fizzy white head. Aroma of corn. Flavor of corn, light hops, and maybe some barley in there. Very easy drinking, I wish all malt liquor was this good.
10/16/10. Bomber. Sweet grainy aroma with a metallic sweet caramel grainy flavor that doesn’t disappoint in the malt liquor department. Hahahaha.
Clear amber with a small white head. Citrus and corn with a sweet hop flavor and lingering carbonation.
Bottle pour to lager glass gives clear yellow color with white ring. Aroma sweet corn. Taste sweet corn, malts, a bit cloying. Mild hops on the finish. Palate medium and a little sticky. Slight alcohol.
Boy I’ve had a lot worse beers than this including some rated much higher. Nice drink on a hot day.
Pours a dark yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet malt and corn. Flavor is sweet caramel, a little grass,honey, more sweet, a little hop bite toward the end.
Smells slightly peachy, but has similar flavor to a light amber ale, slight hops flavor.
pours urine yellow. highly carbonated. lots of corn smell and taste. smooth for a malt liquor, but still harsh and biting. i was able to choke it down, so it’s not as bad as a St. Ides. My first and last craft malt liquor.
This pooured a somewhat darker yellow color with a white head. Aroma was lots of corn and pale malts. Flavor was corn, some rice syrup and 2 row malt. Not good by any means but very good for the style.
Pours dark, foreboding amber, with little lacy white foam head. Aroma is just faint malty sweetness. Very faint. Now THAT is malt liquor. Malt, and then corn, corn, corn. Sweet corn and salt. Slight ABV burn in the mid to late palate. Interesting. Beats the hell out of Mickey’s or King Cobra, but still true to the "style". Manages to avoid being watery. I’m ambivalent, but also intrigued. Would I drink it again? Tell me this: Who’s buying?
This is one of the beers that was in my fridge while staying at the Rogue Bed & Beer in Newport, OR. I’ve always been intrigued by this "craft" malt liquor, so I was happy to have the chance to try it. Aroma is of corn and hay. Appearance is pure golden yellow like a lager with a little head. Taste is pure corn, probably the best that malt liquor could taste like...but that’s not saying much. Happy I tried it once though!
Cracked this one today in honor of all the fathers out there! Pours a golden color with a tight big white head that leaves some lace but doesn’t stick around too long. The aroma is bread dough, metallic, and some fruity notes with a mild corniness. The flavor is clean with some crackery breadiness. The sweetness is there but it’s mild and well controlled and there is a fruitiness with just a faint hop spiciness. This has easily the best identifiable corn character of any beer I’ve ever had it’s kind of like blue corn chips.
650 ml. bottle. Pours a thin white head of short duration, over a clear dark yellow (SRM 5) body.....nose is light sweet malts, with a bit of grass, corn, stale cigarette smoke....taste is light sweetness, bit of straw/grass, with sharp alcoholic bite at the end.....mouth feel is light, carbonation high. To Rogues credit (?) this meets the style quite well. The style is quite awful and is often barely drinkable. BJCP 5/2/8/3/5
Sweet malt and caramel nose. Shimmering amber, thin head. Medium bodied, cloying. Honeycomb, hay, and grass notes present. Bready finish. Gross sweetness as expected , but a suprising amount of hops not usually found in malt liquor. Drinkable.
22 oz Bottle -- Pours orange-golden with a medium white head. Not much going on aroma wise here aside from sweet malt and hay. Thick and heavy on the palate. Quite sweet overall with some mild bitterness.
looks limey and slimy, aroma is of colgone along with the flavor. Really sour and overall pretty dissappointing. Ewww. Bottle from Sunset Corners, Miami.