Samuel Adams Rebel Rouser

This Double IPA is brewed with a blend of American and Australian hops and is packed with fruity citrus and pine notes for a bold hop finish.

3.5

367 reviews

Boston, United States

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3.2 Pours a clear light amber/gold with a finger of frothy white head with a burnt orange tinge. Aroma is orange and grapefruit with some tartness. Flavor is slightly sticky with a sweet and slightly bitter orange character that coats the palate.

3.3 12oz bottle gold pour white head arom of grass and pine with light citrus taste was light sweet with mild bitterness

3.7 (Samuel Adams Rebel Rouser) Bottle 355ml at home, served into a shaker, ABV 8.4% Dark orange colour on the body, crystal clear, with a good sized and thick white head on top. Aroma of caramel, biscuit, orange. Taste has caramel, notable alcohol, biscuit, dough, old hops, oranges, tangerine. Medium body, good carbonation. Nice although it was almost on its BBD, has already started to turn into a hoppy barley wine.

3.3 355 ml bottle. Rated on 20170519. Pours clear copper color with a large white head. Very resinous aroma with mild hop notes, malty with some caramel, faint pine. Flavor is also resinous, malty and sweet with caramel, mild bitterness, slightly bready dry finish. Clearly a bit old already, okay malty brew anyway. 4424

3.5 8.4%ABV. Double IPA. Poured out amber. 14 SRM. Nose is spicy with some pine overtones. Sweet malt. Some honeyed toast. At the end there is a cloying sweet, funky, sweet and little humid. Mouthfeel is soapy. Palate has dark toast, honey, a hint of sweet cream just on account of the abundant grain bill. Hops are bitter melon, pine sap, resin. There is a sweet floral oleander sap. Finish is medium-long and bitter.

3.7 Not a bad DIPA, thick and chewy with a hefty citric-pine finish. Deep veins of caramel malt underline a solid, heavily hopped baseline, orange marmalade and toast leading up to a lengthy resinous, floral fade. Nose offers toasted malt on top of orange and hops, and the pour’s solid, fluffy white head atop a orange-gold body with decent lacing. Texture’s nice and thick. Wasn’t expecting much, but Sam Adams has a pretty good Double IPA on their hands.

3.7 12 fl.oz Bottle. Pours with a light hazy orange color and a white head. Old-school nose: bitter fruits like grapefruit and citurs, nice pines and hops. The taste is as bitter fruity as the nose. Grapefruits, grapufruit-peels, citrus. I love the pines and the hops.Nice bittersweet balance. Full bodied.Good one!

3.1 It Began in Africa thousands of years ago. Green, grass. Sap, tree grind, Sam Adams house yeast .. Mild mouth, easy drinker .. It was okay, but not something I’d even remotely want again .. . . I could never be a tiger.

3.7 I poured it from the bottle into a glass. It pours a pale amber with a nice, off-white head and lacing. The aroma is grapefruit and piny hops. The taste is grapefruit, lemon, bitter hops, and bread. The sourness from the citrus lingers. There’s a lot of flavor here. The higher alcohol content is also masked. This is pretty solid.

3.8 Bottle from the grocery store. This is an appreciated addition to the stable of what you can buy on mass-market shelves -- it’s a solid DIPA that’s light years ahead of what you can get in most grocery stores. With that said, it’s noticeably old-school, with a lot of pine flavor and a high hop bitterness, and it doesn’t compare to either the New England juice bombs or west coast bone dry DIPAs, but it knows what it is and what it’s trying to do, and I respect it for that.

3.9 Poured from a 35.5cl bottle at home. Medium hazy, dark golden orange with a slightly orange tinged head. Frothy and good lacing. Caramel/honey malt base aroma topped with a hops bouquet of resin, pine and citrus. Medium to medium-strong sweetness and medium-strong bitterness. Medium to full body. Oily/smooth texture. Medium carbonation.

3.0 Not impressed by this at all. I expected an upgrade to the Rebel IPA but got a stale verison of an imperial IPA. Weak aromas and flavors of sweet caramel malt and citrus.

3.7 Dark orange color with a white head. The aroma contains some citrus, pine, and caramel. The flavor is quite bitter with a malty backbone. Im getting some oranges, lemons, grapefruit, caramel and maybe some toffee even. This is definitely in the East Coast style. The finish is bitter. Overall pretty good.

3.0 Jan. 31, 2017. Have had this before, but forgot to rate it. A fair-to-middling IIPA out of a can. Positives: Nice lasting head, and not as boozy as might be expected. Negative: The brew is just a bit sharp. A macro keeper.

3.9 Up front, there’s a slightly dank hop aroma when you first open the bottle. Aroma then softens upon pour, and sweet, toasted malt and esters move forward. In short, nice nose. Standard longneck, good label. Intense, clear bronze. Grown up but balanced. A bit boozy, woody, moderately sweet, zesty. Barleywine. Mouthy. A superior mass market brew, and a bargain. Publix, Village Square.

3.8 Bottle - Pours a deep amber with white fizzy head. Aroma of citrus and fermented fruit. Flavors of citrus fruits (orange & grapefruit) with peelings, pine, hay, something like crackers. Center is fruity. Bold hops finish.

3.4 Jim Koch makes no secret of the fact that he doesn’t like aggressively hop-forward beers but you’d never be able to tell from Rebel Rouser. This orange 85 IBU hop bomb is hugely bitter and dank. It smells like pine needles and fruit pith. The taste is assertive and earthy. Think over-steeped green tea. Finish almost tangy with lots of lingering bitterness. What this beer lacks in depth it makes up for in aggression.

3.6 Bottle at BrewMaster’s Craft Beer Festival. Pours a clear gold with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is pine and citrus. Medium body, citrus, grass, light resin finish, very good.

3.6 Dank fruit taste. Hoppy and bitter. Grapefruit and tropical. A little too dank for me. Poured from a bottle at Stadium in Guttenburg

3.5 Bottle. Moderate roasted grain for the malt, moderate grapefruit peel for the hops, light soap for the yeast, with notes of dried fruits in the background. Head is large, frothy, off-white, with excellent lacing, and is mostly lasting. Color is slightly hazy medium amber. Flavor starts lightly to moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes lightly to moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Palate is on the fuller side of medium, oily, with a lively carbonation and a lightly alcoholic finish. A nice simple yet tasty DIPA.

1.8 100e bière commentée ici et de loin pas la meilleure! On dirait un médicament! robe quelconque. Goût parfaitement infect et trop puissant. Déception!

3.6 can to glass pours copper, active two finger sized off white head. some resin, pine, dank. solid bitterness. medium to full body.

3.5 courtesy of Jasmina - hazy orange beer with a moderate foam left; the aroma is cheesy, peachy with a strong hoppy presence; full-bodied, pretty sweet; aftertaste of caramel, very bitter peachy finish

3.8 330ml bottle served in a Samuel Adams pint glass. A: Pours a clear dark orange color forming a big, creamy and solid light yellow head with medium retention and tons of lingering and molasses lacings formed and left in the glass. S: Nose is sweet and very herby. Strong notes of pine, zest and resin. Strong notes of caramel malts and grapefruit. Hints of grass and bubblegum. T: Slightly sweet upfront. Strong notes of caramel malts and resin. Notes of grapefruit, orange zest and pine. Strong hops bitterness comes quickly but it?s quite hidden by its sweetness. Hints of earth and booze in the end. M: Heavy body. Medium carbonation. Strong bittersweet punch. Grapefruit, caramel, pine and resin in the aftertaste. Bitterness is not very persistent. O: Good drinkability. Not a masterpiece but still a good IIPA.

3.5 Solid appearance.. good color, great head. Smells of earthy hops and citrus. Taste is grapefruit, pine, hops. Wish it had more citrus on the taste. Overall, good.

4.1 Poured light copper with big, foamy head. Floral aroma. Taste is orange peel and grass. Nice finish.

3.0 Orange, nice head, aroma is grassy, malty, graperfruit, peach, flavor has alcohol, malt, grass, grapefruit, peach, medium bodied.

3.9 Bottle - pours a tinted marmalade color, thin, wispy light beige head. Aroma is pretty rich, pine syrup, juniper, deep florals and a hint of farm. Nice fresh taste, well balanced version of the style, grapefruit, pine, traces of spearmint and pepper towards the finish. Great but no real hook, still one of the better Sam’s.

3.7 Part of their Pack of Rebels 12-pack of cans in Vermont. Golden-amber colour with a warm-beige head the tops the brew lasting the whole time. Dirty lacing. Grassy herbal hop nose with some sweet malts. Decent bitterness, well-blended with the alcohol the is nicely hidden. A fine DIPA.

3.1 Slight hop aroma and malt notes. Dark honey brown amber pour with lingering white head. Flavor is biscuity malts dark sugar and a bit astringent mid palate with a long bitter finish. Very boozy.