Style: ESB       Food Pairing: Hot & Spicy, Seafood

 

Tasting Notes:

A classic English-style special bitter, it has a triad of caramel maltiness, frutiness, and hop bitterness in aroma and flavor and a dry, hoppy finish.

 

7 Ingredients:

Malts: Northwest Harrington, Klages and Crystal 50-60.

Hops: Willamette and Kent Golding.

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

Specs:

12º PLATO

35 IBU

75.1 AA

17º Lovibond

 

World Class Package:

Draft, 22oz Bottle

 

 

 

2010 Australian International Beer Awards—Bronze
2009 World Beer Championships—Silver
2008 California Brewers Festival—3rd
2008 World Beer Championships—Silver

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder."

– W.C. Fields

 

HISTORY

Our original Rogue Ale, Younger’s Special Bitter (affectionately nicknamed YSB) is a classic English Special Bitter named after Bill Younger of the infamous Horse Brass Pub in Portland, Oregon. A special Imperial YSB was brewed in 2006 for the 30 Year Anniversary of the Horse Brass Pub.