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Rogue Ales Public House
100 39th Street • Astoria • rogue.com
• STORY & PHOTO: HEATHER DOUGLAS
here else can you watch sea lions from the docks of
an old working cannery while enjoying your favorite
craft beer with your furry friend? The Rogue Ales
Public House in Astoria – founded in July 2007 – is
situated on Pier 39, at the site of the historic Bumble
Bee Tuna Cannery. The property features 30 craft
brews on tap and fido-friendly outdoor seating which includes a
separate menu just for dogs.
Rogue Nation’s dog menu features a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich just for dogs, “Nueske’s Bacon,” a dog cheeseburger and
barley treats.
Even the Rogue’s website greets you with a bark. Original Head
Brewer and one of a handful of owners and shareholders – John Maier
– commemorated his beloved late dog “Brewer” (a.k.a. “Chairman of
the Board”) with a dog menu and even a festival.
Maier created the world’s largest beer and dog festival located in
Newport each August called the “Brewer Memorial Ale Fest.” This
year, the festival officially changed its name to the "Dog Days of
Summer Oregon Beer and Dog Fest.”
Inside Astoria’s Rogue, the gigantic wooden bar features works by
local artist Sally Lackaff who also designed The Fort George’s Festival
of Dark Arts logo and The Warren House Pub’s logo. A few steps away
is the Hanthorn Cannery Museum – free and open to the public.
Maier has been with Rogue since “Brew #1” in 1988 in Ashland;
on Aug. 18th, 2016, Rogue celebrated “Brew # 20,000.” Maier marked
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his 30th year brewing beer and his 28th year brewing beer with Rogue.
For almost 28 years, Maier has been brewing his “Dead Guy Ale”
known as the unofficial beer of the Halloween season. Created to
celebrate the Mayan Day of the Dead, it started as a German style
“Maibock,” but as Maier played around with the recipe it ended as
more of an ale and has been Rogue’s best selling beer of all time.
It’s a malt accented beer – full bodied but not too rich or sweet.
Maier added, “It’s a nice balanced beer, backed up with quite a bit of
hops but not to the extreme – still, it’s a mouthful.”
Hazelnut Brown Nectar is another big Rogue staple. “You can
smell the hazelnuts with notes of a nice caramel and a roasty coffee
flavor. It’s low bitterness – a pleasant drinking beer,” said Maier.
Another favorite to try is the “Mocha Porter.” It has chocolate notes
with robust hops. “It’s a dark malt – not too overly roasty or bitter, but
has a quality viscosity on the palate; it’s balanced as well with some
caramel notes,” added Maier.
To complement the beer, Rogue Astoria offers pub fare like the
Kobe Burger, Halibut fish and chips and a number of tasty appetizers.
Their ever popular best-selling melt in your mouth fried cheese curds
feature a jalapeno jelly.
One unique feature of Rogue’s food is their “Grow Your Own”
program. The Rogue Nation sources many of their ingredients for their
beer from their own farms in locations throughout Oregon. “From
farmer to fermenter is what we call it,” said Maier. Currently, seven
varieties of aroma hops are being harvested at Rogue Farm in
Independence. “We’re doing a wet hops beer; before they dry, the hops
come right off the field and straight into the beer,” added Maier.
Maier noted that the craft beer industry has changed a lot since a
handful of like-minded “rogues” began a “revolution in beer” that
began in the basement of the Rogue Public House in Ashland, Oregon.
“Back in the day we were way ahead of everybody else on the
forefront on making some really creative beers. There are so many
craft breweries in business these days. We try to keep it fresh and
creative.”
Yet, Maier wishes success to everyone in the industry: “We want
all brewers to make great beer – it helps the whole industry.”
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