The Rogue XS series dominated the 2011 World Beverage Championships. This series, which consists of six 7oz. bottles, took home 5 awards of Gold or better, including the #1 overall Strong Ale and Platinum winner XS Imperial Red.

Also winning Gold medals were XS McRogue Scotch Ale in the Scottish Ale category, XS Imperial India Pale Ale in the Imperial IPA category, XS Younger’s Special Bitter in the Strong Ale category and XS Old Crustacean Barleywine in the Barleywine category.

Rogue hops and barley are grown at our farms in Oregon, the sweet spot for growing hops and barley, and the judges at the World Beverage Championship Awards attested to the quality of them with their votes. Rogue continues to save the terroir of Oregon hops and barley one acre at a time by growing our own.

Watch Captain Sig’s Northwestern Ale make an appearance on Conan

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NEWPORT, OR, April 19, 2011 – In a collaboration of crafts, two small Oregon companies who have earned worldwide critical acclaim – Rogue Creamery and Rogue Ales & Spirits – will debut Anniversary Ale at SAVOR, a unique American craft beer & food tasting experience, on June 3rd in Washington, DC.

The beer celebrates the Rogue Creamery’s 75th Anniversary (1935-2010) and will be paired at SAVOR with Rogue Farms Freedom Cheddar cheese, a cow’s milk cheddar cheese hand-mixed with Freedom hops from the Chatoe Rogue Micro Hopyard in Oregon’s Wigrich Appellation. Whole hop leaves are de-stemmed by hand, steeped in hot water, mixed into the curds and eventually pressed into blocks.

The Rogue Creamery, an artisan cheese company, with people dedicated to service, sustainability and the art and tradition of making the world’s finest handmade cheese, has received over 70 awards for taste and quality, including multiple 1st Place Medals for their Echo Mountain, Rogue River, and Oregon Blue Cheeses at both National & International cheese competitions.

It is not the first time the two Rogues have collaborated – Morimoto Soba Ale Cheddar and Chocolate Stout Cheddar cheeses are available at the Rogue Creamery Cheese Shop and online store, all Rogue Ales Public Houses, as well as select gourmet retailers nationwide.

Anniversary Ale was designed by Rogue Creamery owner Dave Gremmels and Rogue Ales Brewmaster John Maier to pair perfectly with the unique terroir of the Rogue-grown hops used to make the Rogue Farms Cheddar & TouVelle cheeses. It is brewed using 10 ingredients: Crystal 75, Weyermann Carafe Special II, Malteries Franco Belges Kiln Amber, Hugh Baird Brown and Rogue Micro Barley Farm DareTM & RiskTM Malts; Rogue Micro Hopyard Rebel Hops; Buckwheat, Free Range Coastal Water & Pacman Yeast.

Rogue Ales is honored to be part of the American Artisan Cheese Renaissance. The Growers, Farmers, Maltsters, Millers, Mashers, Brewers, Fermenters, Distillers, Smithers, Ocean-Agers and Smokers of the Rogue Nation Department of Agriculture remain dedicated to saving the terroir of Oregon hops and barley one acre at a time by growing their own.

NEWPORT, OR, April 15, 2011  According to the United States Census Bureau, there are over 67.8 million fathers in America and the number one gift for dads on Fathers Day: a TIE. This year for Fathers Day, Rogue Ales & Spirits is providing fathers with an alternative  a unique gift hell appreciate and wont have to return…Dads Little Helper Black IPA.

Dads Little Helper Black IPA is created with GYO Certified hops and barley grown on Rogues Micro Hopyard and Micro Barley Farm. It is brewed using 9 ingredients: Malteries Franco-Belges Carawheat, Weyermann Melanoidin, Weyermann Carafe Special II & Rogue Micro Barley Farm RiskTM Malts; Newport, Chinook & Rogue Micro Hopyard Rebel Hops, Pacman Yeast & Free Range Coastal Water.

After the death of his wife, Henry Jackson Smart was left to raise his 6 young children alone. His courage, love, selflessness and dedication inspired his daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, to organiz the first Fathers Day on June 19th, 1910. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Fathers Day. President Nixon, in 1972, established it as a permanent day of national observance.

Rogues 42-acre Micro Hopyard is located in Oregons Wigrich Appellation and the Rogue GYO Barley Farm is located in Oregons Tygh Valley Appellation. The Growers, Farmers, Maltsters, Millers, Mashers, Brewers, Fermenters, Distillers, Smithers, Ocean-Agers and Smokers of the Rogue Nation Department of Agriculture remain dedicated to saving the terroir of Oregon hops and barley one acre at a time by growing their own.

Dads Little Helper will be available in 22oz serigraphed bottles and on draft starting May 1st, 2011.

Portland, OR – For the second year in a row, Rogue Spirits’ Oregon Single Malt Whiskey was selected by a Panel of Judges from the American Distilling Institute as the Gold Medal Winner in the Single Malt category. The American Distilling Institutes annual conference and competition, which brings together craft distillers was held this April in Portland, OR. This is the fifth gold medal for the Chatoe Rogue Oregon Single Malt Whiskey since its release in June of 2010.

Rogue’s Oregon Single Malt Whiskey, is made from 100% Oregon Ingredients. The barley used in the whiskey is grown on Rogue’s barley farm in the shadow of Mt. Hood near Tygh Valley. The barley is smoked over alder wood from Oregon’s coastal range, milled and brewed at the Rogue brewery, fermented with yeast from The Dalles, OR, and then distilled and ocean aged in Newport, OR.

Prior awards for Chatoe Rogue Oregon Single Malt Whiskey include: a gold medal at the American Distilling Institute 2010, a gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and a gold medal at the World Beverage Competition.

NEWPORT, OR, April 8, 2011  In a collaboration of crafts, two small Oregon companies who have earned worldwide critical acclaim – Rogue Creamery and Rogue Ales & Spirits  have released the first in a series of 2009 Bintage Cheddar and TouVelle cheeses made with a variety of hops from Rogues Micro Hopyard.

The first hop cheese is Rogue Farms Freedom Cheddar, a cows milk cheddar hand mixed with Freedom Hops from the Chatoe Rogue Micro Hopyard in Oregons Wigrich Appellation. Whole hop leaves are de-stemmed by hand, steeped in hot water, mixed into the curds and eventually pressed into blocks.

It is not the first time the two Rogues have collaborated  Morimoto Soba Ale Cheddar and Chocolate Stout Cheddar are available at the Rogue Creamery Cheese Shop and online store, all Rogue Ales Public Houses, as well as select gourmet retailers nationwide.

The Rogue Brewery in Newport, Oregon is located between two famous dairy appellations, Tillamook and Bandon, and for 23 years has shared its spent grain as rumen protein for dairy cows in the valley adjacent to its Micro Hopyard. Rogue remains dedicated to saving the terroir of Oregon hops & barley one acre at a time by growing, farming, malting, milling, brewing, fermenting, distilling, smithing, ocean-aging and smoking their own.

Rogue Ales & Spirits is honored to be a part of the American Cheese Renaissance.

The Rogue Creamery, an artisan cheese company, with people dedicated to service, sustainability and the art and tradition of making the worlds finest handmade cheese, has received over 70 awards for taste and quality, including multiple 1st Place Medals for their Echo Mountain, Rogue River, and Oregon Blue Cheeses at both National & International cheese competitions. Rogue Ales & Spirits was recently awarded the Platinum Medal for XS Imperial Red Ale at the World Beer Championships, as

well as the Gold Medal for Chatoe Rogue Oregon Single Malt Whiskey at the 2011 International Review of Spirits.

Newport, Oregon, April 5, 2011 – Eleven beers from Rogue Ales were recently named amongst the Best Beers of 2010 by the Beverage Tasting Institute.  The beers receiving “Best of 2010” designations were:

• Yellow Snow IPA (India Pale Ale Category);
• XS Imperial Pale Ale (Imperial Pale Ale Category);
• Track Town Triple Jump Pale Ale (American Style Pale Ale Category).
• Captain Sig’s Northwestern Ale (Amber Ale Category);
• Hazelnut Brown Nectar (English Style Brown Ale Category);
• Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout (Oatmeal Stout Category);
• XS Russian Imperial Stout (Imperial Stout Category);
• XS Imperial Red (Strong Ale Category);
• Double Dead Guy (Strong Ale Category);
• XS Old Crustacean (Barley Wine Category);
• Chatoe Rogue Dirtoir Black Lager (Black Beer/Schwarzbier Category)

Rogue congratulates its Master Brewer John Maier on brewing 11 of 2010’s best beers.

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 terroir of Oregon hops and barley from extinction, one acre at a time, by growing its own.

Newport, Oregon, April 5, 2011 – Chatoe Rogue Dirtoir Black Lager was named the Grand Champion in the Dark Lager category in the United States Beer Tasting Championship’s 17^th Annual Winter Competition.  All beers in Rogue’s “Grow Your Own” Chatoe Rogue series use ingredients grown at the Rogue micro hop yard in Independence, Oregon, as well as barley grown on Rogue’s micro barley farm in Tygh Valley, Oregon.

The Chatoe Rogue family includes Dirtoir Black Lager, OREgasmic Ale (using 100% Oregon ingredients), Single Malt Ale and Creek Ale.  This year, Rogue will introduce Chatoe Rogue Floor Malt Ale, which uses barley malted at Rogue’s micro floor malting facility.

Other Rogue beers receiving awards in the USBTC Winter Competition include XS Old Crustacean Barley Wine (Pacific Northwest Champion in the Barleywine category) and Maierfest (Pacific Northwest Champion in the Vienna/Marzen Lager category).  Like the Chatoe Rogue beers, these beers include hops and barley grown on Rogue’s own farms.

The Growers, Maltsters, Millers, Brewers, Fermenters, Distillers, Smithers, Ocean-Agers and Smokers of the Rogue Department of Agriculture remain committed to saving the terroir of Oregon hops and barley one acre at a time by growing their own.

The Wall Street Journal asks you to “celebrate Spring” with Dead Guy Ale…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576228850399947720.html?mod=ITP_offduty_3

After a march to victory through the first 4 rounds of the tournament, Rogue is cutting down the nets to reach the Final Four. Voting starts today for the Championship.

http://draftmag.com/marchmadness/roundfive/