More effective crafting fine ales than pale lagers, Rogue’s moderate-bodied German-style pils lacks aggressive nature. Toasted wheat bread base upholds lemony peach souring, nutty hop bitterness, and earthen grass-hay leathering, but unassuming finish gets bland.

Original bottom fermented ‘summer’ lager’ (circa 1998?) invigorates creamy caramel malt slurp with wheat-backed fruitiness. Berry slip and floral dip maintain good ol’ rural summer feel. Overt carbonation prohibits well-meshed ingredients to shine, though bittersweet hop thrust intensifies.

Unfiltered amber-hued pilsner with musty fertilizer aroma, blackened mocha malt bittering, and brisk hop-spiced tingle. Quite filling and rich for watery brew (much like British lagers). Always assured in its uniformity of purpose.

Soothingly bitter-hopped wheat-backed rye-pumpernickel entry becomes one-dimensional after a few sips. Dry lemony hop fizz encounters sourdough nicety, but soothingly sweet diacetyl finish gets watery. No longer brewed.

Frivolous bubbly white-headed pale-bodied pilsner imbued by dank grain minerality and hard water flow. Threadbare barley-hop finish can’t recoup early losses. Website www.beerme.com reports brewery closed 2005.

Humble 60-barrel handcrafted microbrew brings brief wheat serenade to phenol yellow-fruited finish as frustrating citric nature loses efficacy.

Stylistically bold, yet refreshingly clean and crisp, bringing harvest mineral grains and herbal hops to initial lemon-peeled bittering. Tangy bruised citric souring ascends mid-palate as seltzer-like lemon-lime fizz of buoyant pilsner-styled bock lager picks up balsam wood dryness. Mild orange briskness and vegetal remnant found in backdrop.

In milky white 11.8-ounce bottle, shrewdly heady ale invigorates pleasant yeast resolve with crisp fizz-hopped bite and impending spicy citric mildness, putting subtly wheat-backed Belgian closer to white ale than more wine-y Belgians.

Fresh lemon pop aroma, fizzy foam head, and perfumed hop swatch bestow light, unassuming, pale pilsner. Mildly tart citric-teased grain finish will please novices and barely register with snobs.

Sweet Scotch-malted golden-hazed Ethiopian places buttery wheat atop lemony hop fizz. Creamier and more alcohol-strengthened than most toned-down lagers.

Little-known pale-bodied pils nicely integrates sugared malts with honeyed cereal grains for sweetish simplicity, losing luster over time. Compromised diacetyl finish comes to the fore after few sips.

Trademark bitter-hopped skunked yeast theme gains brown-sugared Bavarian malting. Mid-range barley-toasted cereal graining provides cover for lemony orange peel tuft. Simple, crisp, effective middle ground for amateurs and connoisseurs.