Double Dead Guy Ale
It's tempting to think of Double Dead Guy as an imperial version of Rogue's Dead Guy Ale, a quasi-maibock known for it iconic skeleton sitting contemplatively on a beer cask. The two beers actually share little in common materially aside from their use of Rogue's proprietary Pacman yeast strain. Of the two, the Double Dead Guy (Dead Guys?) holds my attention more fully for its distended fruity nose ripe with barleywine-like sweetness. The lace lingers, the deep amber body lifts precious few bubbles, the head is a carpet of buoyant dust. Double Dead doesn't express heavy bitterness, but is augmented with a rapturous malt quirkiness that bespeaks of a marbled ambrosia. A delayed bittering arrives as a final coup de grce. Engaging, peculiar, and repeatable.