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OVER A PINT
Rogness Brewing Co.
IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT PAST WE
SPENT AN EVENING WITH THE ROGNESS
FAMILY AT THEIR NEW BREWERY IN
PFLUGERVILLE, TOURING THEIR NEW
FACILITIES, SAMPLING SOME FINE BREWS,
AND DISCUSSING HOW BREWING WHAT
EVERYBODY ELSE ALREADY DOES IS SO
PASSÉ.
ABG: I’m drinking the Beardy Guard. Tell me
about this, it’s a pretty interesting beer.
Rogness: Thank you. It’s a French style amber,
known for its toffee notes, and just overall
spiciness at the end. It’s a real popular variety.
Yeah, it’s real yummy. And it’s “beardy” like “my
face is beardy,” right?
Well we know there’re a lot of people that when
they see a foreign word, they don’t even want to
try to pronounce it, so we phonetically made the
name pronounceable.
That’s thoughtful, thank you... So this is your
fifth beer so far? So before what are the
predecessors?
We have Ost robust porter, Bella it’s Belgian
golden, we have Rook which is a peat malt Scotch
ale, we have Yogi which is a chai spiced amber,
and we have Vinton coming up which is our
blonde ale.
Tell me where is Rogness today?
Right now we’re doing 7 barrel batches, just
something to get us out there, get us started
while we finish the construction on the
brewhouse. Hopefully by mid to early summer,
we’ll be on a 30 barrel system. We’ll be able to
up our production and get more beers out there
and more different styles out there. Our plans
are, probably by mid to late summer to be both
canning as well as bottling, depending on the
beer style. I’ve always had the philosophy that
those beers that are the lower alcohol, the 5, 6, 6
and a half percent beers, that would be fun to go
take down the river, go to the park with, would be
cans and the higher alcohol beers that you really
want to sit at home and share with some friends,
we’re going to put in some nice bottles and have
some fun with.
Tell me a little bit about your brewing
philosophy.
We’re trying really hard not to be a niche brewery.
We’re trying to come up with something new
almost every month. We’re trying not to stick with
any one style. For example we have a 103 IBU
Imperial IPA coming out soon to complement
these other beers. We’re just trying to make as
many styles as we can.
So what’s something people can look forward to
the rest of the Summer from Rogness?
We have, like I said, the Imperial IPA, we have
a blonde called Vinton that’s coming out soon.
Were working on an old ale and a holiday ale for
Christmas that will require some aging. We also
have some other Summer beers that we’ll be
releasing.
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