 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm going to be doing my first beer on this little channel From rogue Ales and spirits. Yeah, Ales and spirits. I don't know I was just assume rogue brewing is the way they should do it because every place is like something brewing But rogues rogue Ales and spirits out of Newport, Oregon. This is their Sriracha stout. It is supposed to be a hot Stout with sriracha used as everyone knows, you know sriracha is a chili sauce This beer is actually 5.7% alcohol by volume 55 IBUs on that. So There's that information now One of the things that rogue is known for is their packaging for some of these things like this obviously looks exactly like a Sriracha bottle, you know red even with the green top. You take a look It's got the rooster on it and everything it looks just like the label for sriracha, and then you got the cap there Turn it that way. There you go So anyway pretty cool. Um, I must mention this is actually a special episode for a fan of the show Dan Isom this one goes out to you. You asked me to do the sriracha stout by rogue I am doing the sriracha stout by rogue So anyone else out there if you want the same thing if you have a specific beer you want me to do Send me an email brutal about a podcast at gmail.com We'll see what we can figure out either if we can get it or if we need you to try and send it or whatever We'll figure it out. Anyway, let's pour this. I do have to say Also with the design thing that they do the the voodoo donut Line where they try to make don't donut inspired beers by voodoo donut that's out of Oregon as well and they've done a few of them and the latest one was a Lemon chiffon crawler ale and I just tried that because my wife Rebecca was wanted to drink it and it Tasted pretty close to what they were trying to get. It was very lemony. It had a lot of like creamy bready quality to it They did a good job. So I'm hoping this is good I mean close to sriracha in a stout. I don't know. I'm not very good with with like hot things You know, I've had habanero sculpting before and I needed to cut it with a 50-50 blend of it and fresh squeezed by the shoots In order to tolerate it. So I'm not great with heat So I'm hoping it's just not a lot of heat But just you know more a little bit of a heat with some flavor of the sriracha because the sriracha sauce is a good flavor So anyway, let's see how this goes Dan if this goes poorly and I'm like throwing up or something. It's on you You smell sriracha like freaking immediately. It's very peppery. It's got kind of a Tomatoy quality to like a little tomato saucy note on the nose as you can see by the way Looks like a stout. It's very dark. It's got a little bit of like a tan head around the edges It's a lot of like sweet like a sweet and tart aspect To the actual like fruit of the chili that comes through that smells like a straight-up like red chili You can smell that there's gonna be some sort of heat on this now once you smell past all those chili notes Which is a ton of chili notes on that you get a little bit of that kind of like chocolatey malt aspect from the stout malts Little roasty Little yeah coffee a little bit of coffee So chocolate and coffee under there Actually, I'm really liking the way that the chocolate and the coffee are starting to really mix with that kind of hot chili nose So hopefully it tastes the way it smells. It burns a little bit Probably a little bit more than I want it to but that's just me a Lot of people are going to be able to easily handle this If you like sriracha if you're cool with hot stuff hot wings things like that No problems whatsoever. Even if you can handle a mild amount. No problems I'm actually not doing too bad And one of the great things is beer is something that typically will take the heat of some of a hot food down Like chilies they say a lot of times, you know, if you drink milk, you know, it will take the heat down It'll help you Beers the same so it really helps bring that capsaicin that comes from the chilies under control It's good that it's in this It smells really nice So upfront I get the hot chili, but it's not immediate What I get first is kind of like the sweet and tangy kind of flavor of a chili red chili and then I get some of that chocolate coffee aspect and then while I'm getting the chocolate and coffee the heat is building up to a Pretty present level and then it's starting to come down a little bit So it's pretty well controlled actually. This is a hot stout that I can drink more of There have been Some hot stouts that I've had in the past. I have one by Duclaw I believe the Coco Fuego by Duclaw which I hear it's been a little more under control lately But when it first came out, I couldn't really handle it I couldn't I couldn't drink too much of it because the heat was a little out of kilter for me also There was a chili ale by a lesion that had come out their pest PES TE it was one of their 12 beers of the apocalypse and That was like it was hot hot hot and I just couldn't this one Enough heat to keep it interesting enough heat to satisfy Sriracha fans, which Sriracha fandom is a huge thing right now This is good. This is pretty good for what it's supposed to be Now is this a type of beer that I would really want to reach for? Probably not just because I'm not typically into like chili aspects in my beers But if somebody does like that you could easily like this So I recognize where it's good and I'll drink the whole bottle no problem and the heat's not gonna be too much So rogue, I think you did a good job. I think you Accomplish what you were setting out to accomplish. So well done and Dan Thank you very much for you know making this recommendation for this episode because otherwise I probably wouldn't have tried it because I would have assumed it's gonna be too hot for me But it's not so thanks so much everyone else for checking this out and go get yourself an awesome beer