Rogue John John Dead Guy Ale
40 IBU, 78AA, 16 Plato, 16 L
In a collaboration of crafts, Rogue Brewmaster John Maier and Rogue Spirits Master Distiller John Couchot have joined forces to create a distinct, innovative series of brews called John John Ales. The series will take Rogue Ales legends and age them in Rogue Spirits barrels. A 3,100 gallon batch of John John Ale produces 1357 cases of beer. The first of the John John series is John John Dead Guy Ale, Rogue’s award winning Dead Guy Ale matured in Rogue’s award winning Dead Guy Whiskey barrels.
Deep honey in color with a malt aroma, a caramel, vanilla and oak finish.
In a collaboration of crafts, Rogue Brewmaster John Maier and Rogue Spirits Master Distiller John Couchot have joined forces to create a distinct, innovative series of brews called John John Ales. The series will take Rogue Ales legends and age them in Rogue Spirits barrels. A 3,100 gallon batch of John John Ale produces 1357 cases of beer. The first of the John John series is John John Dead Guy Ale, Rogue’s award winning Dead Guy Ale matured in Rogue’s award winning Dead Guy Whiskey barrels.
Deep honey in color with a malt aroma, a caramel, vanilla and oak finish.
3.5
425 reviews
Newport, United States
Community reviews
I don’t get any oakiness from the aging, nor much whiskey undertones. I prefer regular Dead Guy Ale to this. This left a weird syrupy lingering aftertaste that I didn’t care for.
2/5/2010. Hazy light amber color with a white head. Aromas are fruity with caramel and malt. Oaky flavors, a little sweet with caramel and light hops.
Bottle aged a couple years. Pours orange with white head. Smells like wood and oranges, yeast. Tastes like oranges, lots of wood that comes out in the middle, creamy, medium body, smooth and easy. Good beer,
Poured into a pint glass cloudy amber brown with a light cream head with slight lacing.
Aroma of caramel sweetness & booze.
Taste is Dead Guy Ale but better. Whiskey galore. Wished it was more sweet & carbonation seems off a bit but definitely a better than average.
Purchased a case of this at the brewery and have had it in my cellar for approx 2 years. Opened the first bottle on 10/2/13. Poured amber with a nice initial head but dissipated fairly quickly. Aroma immediately has a strong essence of the Dead Guy Whiskey barrel, then the nutty maltiness of Dead Guy Ale comes through. A very nice mouthfeel with flavors of caramel, nuts, wood, and a slight (but noticeable) ethanol finish. Has a sweeter profile, much like regular Dead Guy. I’ve had this on tap at the brewery and it is my opinion that the cellaring has greatly improved this beer! It is much more balanced and synchronized compared to the fresh John John which tasted like Dead Guy with a bit of whiskey mixed in. Overall, it is a definite winner in my book.
Pours a hazey golden brown with an off white fizzy head the dissipates reasonably fast. Smells just lile dead guy ale with the faintest hint of barrel aged oak. The taste though is all whiskey barrel. It tastes lile a 9% carbonated Jack Daniels. Its nothing particulaterly special but its certainly worth a drink.
Rated on 10-22-2012 (Bottle) This beer pours a small tan head that had a long retention, hazy body, and spotty amounts of lacing. The Aroma is malty, spicy, whiskey and some caramel. The Taste is malty, spicy, and whiskey. The Palate is lightly tingly and this is a medium bodied beer. In conclusion, this beer is quaffable but the flavor is lacking to where it does not lend me to seek this beer out again.
Interesting beer; reminds me of a poor mans Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale. Good beer for the price.
This beer was TERRIBLE...Just TERRIBLE.
I chilled the beer to 50 degrees and poured it into a 4 ounce snifter.
The color looked good, a golden-brown ale.
Smell was OK, could smell the whiskey barrel aging a bit and thought this might be a decent drink.
Took a mouthful and holy what the heck...a combination of sour elephant dung, decaying squid heads, and pig urine in a thin watery Budweiser-like fluid. This bottle must have been a bad batch...that’s all I can honestly think. It was clear though so I think it was a non-infected beer - just horrible as heck.
I paid $12 for this???
So I let it warm up and took a sip every few minutes thinking, "this is going to improve as the temp gets warmer".
No Such Luck. This remained feces in a bottle.
I felt obligated to drink it after dropping so much coin on it so I decided to mix it with a stout to make it palatable. No way, it just ruined the stout.
I dumped out the remaining 14 ounces and I’m so dis-a-frickin-pointed.
I’ve had a few other Rogue brews and while I’m not an avid fan, they do make a few decent beers (Old Crustacean). ..but this one???OH man If I could get a refund, I would be all over that.
22 oz. from spiritus. Enjoyed this with a hunk of Beemster XO cheese. The beer is malty with heavy vanilla and oak notes. Lots of burbon in the finish. Puts a little edge on the dead guy...is it worth $12 for that kind of edge. No.
22oz served into a snifter.
No born on date, but supposedly fresh from the truck.
A - Pours a slightly hazed amber/red. 2 fingers of cream colored head looks thick and blankets the ceiling with micro-bubbles.
S - Bready malt, alcohol vapors, golden grahams cereal, faint fruit, hints of vanilla, bright fruit, peaches,
T - Bright caramel, honey sweetness, very bready, suggestions of wood, clean but doughy yeast (if that makes sense), peaches, toasted grains covered in honey.
M - Very smooth feel, light to medium bodied, semi-sweet finish.
Bright and bready are 2 words that would describe this beer.
If it wasn’t printed on the label I would have never guessed this was aged on whiskey barrels.
The signature pacman yeast is very present.(nutty and doughy) The barrels seem to add creaminess and hints of vanilla. (I guess) Nice fruit profiles and nice honey flavor.
A solid beer that has grains of barrel aging and pulls it off. Outrageously overpriced so this is a one and done.
Serving type: bottle
06-08-2012
On tap at george and dragon. Orange colour with white head. Honey, caramel, malt aroma. Strong honey, sweet taste. Also caramel and malts. Light body.
Appearance:
A slightly cloudy orange under a thin splash of a white head bordered by a thin white collar. Swirls with little change.
Nose:
Malt forward followed by oak with caramel and vanillin in the back. Sauced apples sprinkled with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.
Palate:
Thin mouthfeel and presentation of flavors overall with a fast finish. Sauced apples with mingle with caramel. Cinnamon-sugar and nutmeg. Raw cinnamon powder makes the top of my tongue tingle. Bitter orange rind and oak finish. Apple skins.
Final Thoughts:
Rogue’s Dead Guy is an original classic that helped kick-start the craft beer re-evolution along with all our other founding fathers. This barrel-aged variant was a toss-up for me; some of it I loved and some I did not. I enjoyed the additional complexity the oak added, but on the flip-side, it thinned out the palate more than I would have liked.
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Maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind for this beer but it just struck me all wrong. It’s not really a high ABV beer but it gives off the impression of being overly boozy and just too malty for my liking.
Pretty good drink but I am a rogue fan. Think this will be a real god summer time hot weather drink.
Gold pour with creamy white head. Aroma of sweet malt and earthy hops. Flavor is sweet malt, pepper, and a decent flat bitter. Medium bodied but a tad foamy.
Tasted in 2010 (backlog). Gold in color with a good sized off-white head. Aroma is of wood, malt and caramel. Taste is of whiskey, light vanilla, oak and malt.
Aroma is very subtle, with whiskey notes. Dark amber colored. Very sweet with whiskey notes along with the classic dead guy flavor.
Poured a cloudy amber color with a huge and frothy white head. Aroma is tobacco, honey, oak, raisin, caramel, cereal, and faint licorice. Taste is raisin, honey, green wood, grass, with an almost red wine-like dry finish. Interesting, but I like the original better.
22 oz bottle served in a St. Bernardus snifter.
A: The beer is hazy orange-amber in color. It poured into my snifter with a head barely thick enough to cover the ale that quickly died down to a thin partial film over the surface and a thin ring around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderately strong aromas of malts, whiskey and wood in the somewhat fruity nose. Interesting and complex, although not a perfect mix in my nose.
T: The flavor is better than the aroma, with a solid malt/barley base, beer is quite malty and notes of wood and whiskey from the barrel aging process. Hints of yeast, spicy and herbal hops, honey and dark fruits are also present in the taste.
M: On the high side of medium-bodied with a very good, low-moderate amount of carbonation. Quite smooth with nearly no alcohol harshness.
O: A rich and complex ale I enjoyed quite a bit despite having no particular fondness for whiskey. The whiskey barrel aging adds a good level of wood and whiskey to the aroma and flavor.
From notes. 22oz bottle courtesy of Erik and Eva. Poured a cloudy brown with a slight foamy head. Aromas of malts and funky yeast. Strong alcohol, nice flavours of dark fruits, figs and raisins and slight, but noticeable sour notes.
Hazy amber/orange color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of caramel malt, fruit, & hops; Flavor of sweet malt, oak, caramel, hops, and fruit; Slight alcohol at the finish; Nicely balanced; Overall, a little subdued - but nice take on the original.
Tasted from the bottle @George and dragon, Barcelona,in June 2012.
Quite unusual, strange taste - almost-a-barleywine?..
Draft at Moriartys. Hazy brown pour. Not sure what I was expecting but this was not it. Getting a lot of funky sour notes. Like a flemish sour with some dark caramel malt flavors. Raisins. Whiskey oak barrel notes as well. Pungent brown sour. Only a handful of other reviews here are noting the sour element - so either this beer has turned or varies greatly keg to keg. Bizarre, but I am up for it!
It poured a dark red color with a beige head. The aroma was notes of citrusy hops, fruits and some malt. The taste was sweet with notes of malt, straw and fruit with some citrusy hops, leading to a bitter finish. Not bad.
On tap. Slightly hazy amber golden with a small, creamy off-white head. Tart aroma of overripe fruit - berries kinda. Medium body tart’n’sweet berry accents, a little Brett and I believe lactic acid also. Dry and tart finish. Clearly infected from the barrel but not entirely unpleasant. 261012
Drank from the bottle. Interesting character to it. Not much of a head, but a surprising amount of co2 on the tongue, given that. sweet hops and caramel malt and just a slight note of the whiskey barrels. enjoyable and above average.
Good beer! Poured at a good temperature wilth a decent size, light tan, foamy, frothy head that soon settled and some lace. Color is a clear amber with some bubble trails. Aroma is the best part here and is malt, whiskey, hop and aromatic. Flavor doesn’t have mujch of the whiskey, but lots of malt and some hop comes through. It’s also fairly dry with carbonic tang balanced nicely with the bitter and the slight sweet to take the edge off. Body is also excellent and is soft, but not overly and great carbonation. Finish is like flavor, good burps, a little boozy, the whiskey flavor finally comes through, and a bit on the long side.
Dark amber / ruby pour with a small beige head. Biscuit and sweet hops and whiskey. Taste same as the aroma but with less whiskey. Body lighter then the looks and aroma.
22oz bottle, shared with friends. Woody whiskey barrel aroma. Sweet caramel malts. Smooth softer carbonation, bigger body. Clear amber color. Thin off-white head. Little lace. Light sweet taste. Little bitterness. Hint of booze. Enjoyable sipper, but not much too this, kind of one-sided.