Style: Specialty Grain       Food Pairing: Seafood, Poultry

 

Tasting Notes:

The delicate flavor of our roasted Soba brings a nutty finish to this light and refreshing ale. A perfect accompaniment to lighter cuisine.

 

8 Ingredients:

Malts: Roasted Soba, Harrington, Metcalf, Munich & C-15.

Hops: Crystal.

Yeast & Water: Rogue’s Pacman Yeast & Free Range Coastal Water.

Specs:

12º PLATO

30 IBU

75 AA

14º Lovibond

 

World Class Package:

Draft, 22oz Bottle

 

 

 

2006 World Beer Championships—Silver

2005 World Beer Championships—Gold, Best of 2005

2005 21st Beverage Dynamics Pkg Awards—2nd Redone Pkg

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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

– Oscar Wilde

 

HISTORY

The Morimoto Soba Ale is part of the new Signature Series of Rogue Ales, launched in the Spring of 2003 with internationally acclaimed Chef Masaharu Morimoto—a James Beard awarded chef and one of the stars of the Food Network series, Iron Chef.

 

Soba (also known as buckwheat) is not a type of wheat but a member of the rhubarb family and has been a longtime staple of Japanese cuisine because of its nutritional value. Buckwheat is high in potassium, phosphorous, vitamin B (50 percent more than wheat) and protein, and its virtually fat-free. The fruits of the buckwheat plant are like small beechnuts, which are milled to separate the edible groats from the dark brown hulls. The groats are then roasted and used more or less like a grain (a good example is Kasha).