Rogue Ales to come in adorably sized bottles
• Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Beer Releases
Is there anything cuter than beers in little bottles? Maybe you could make a case for three-year-old kids or puppies or something like that, but we’ll take a teeny-tiny brew any day. (So much easier to clean up after, you know?)
With that in mind, we’re happy to let you know — thanks to our friends over at BeerNews.org — that Rogue Ales will debut a line of 7 oz. bottles on February 1, starting with Russian Imperial Stout. The brewery will soon follow with Imperial Younger’s Special Bitter, Imperial Red AleImperial IPA, Old Crustacean Barley Wine, and McRogue Scotch Ale.
As long as you’re toilet-trained, you’re ready to go.
This strikes me as a very useful idea. Gives more people the chance to taste strong beers but at a lower price point than bombers, six-packs or 75cl. There is also a precedent (in the UK) for nip bottles of barley wine or imperial stout… I think those are a third of a UK pint (nearly 7 oz).
If it works I wouldn’t be surprised to see other US breweries try it out.
I’m on board with this. It’s a great way to just do a taster or even be able to have several high gravity beers in a night if you have nobody to share the big bottle with.