Five Rogue Beers Named Northwest Champions at the United States Beer Tasting Championships!

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Newport, Oregon, April 21, 2010 – Five Rogue beers were named Northwest Champions at the 16th Annual United States Beer Tasting Championships (USBTC) regional competition.  The winning beers were:  Old Crustacean in the Barley Wine category; Mogul Madness in the Strong/Old Ale category; XS Russian Imperial Stout in the Imperial Stout category; Hazelnut Brown Nectar in the Brown Ale category; and Rogue Smoke Ale in the Smoke Beer Category.

Rogue Old Crustacean was also named the national Grand Champion in the Barley Wine category at USBTC.

Celebrating its second century, Rogue Ales is an Artisan Varietal Brewery founded in Oregon in 1988, as one of America’s first 50 microbreweries.  Rogue’s ales, porters, stouts and lagers are brewed using hops and barley from Rogue’s own Oregon micro-farms.  Rogue is committed to saving the terrior of Oregon hops and barley from extinction, one acre at a time.

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