Rogue Ales Public House

Posted on 11. Dec, 2011 by Robert Gale in Pubs

Rogue Ales Public House, Newport, OR

Rogue Ales Public House is one of a dozen or so ‘Meeting Halls’ owned by the brewery.

Brief History

Rogue Ales began life in October 1988 Ashland, a town in southern Oregon. The 10bbl brewery was located in a basement with a pub located above. Whilst it was a success, by early 1989 Rogue set out to find a location for another pub. a building was found on the Oregon coast in town called Newport. The building was located in the town’s Historic Bay Front and was a former store and garage.

The building’s owner was Mohave Niemi, founder of the famous Mo’s Clam Chowder, and she agreed to rent out the space to Rogue at a very reasonable price. An odd stipulation of the deal was that a photograph of herself naked in the bar was to be placed in the bar and not removed. The photograph is still there today.

Work begin converting the building into a pub in February 1989 and in May 1989 the Rogue Ales Public House opened. Rogue brewed beer at the pub until 1992 when a new location across the river was found and the 15bbl was shipped across there.

The Beer and Food

Around 35 beers are always available at the Public House including a full selection of Rogue beers, local guests and cider. It’s highly recommended that if you visit you sit at the bar, not only are the locals very friendly, the knowledgeable staff can help you choose a good beer and even have a go at mixing beers in search of discovering a new and unusual beer.

The bartenders always offer samples of their beers and quite often insist you try something on arrival. Rogue bottles are available to take away including some well aged Old Crustacean barley wine (I took three!)

On my visit I only sampled the fries which tasted great. There are plenty of reviews of the food on Trip Advisor with some raving over the pub grub style food with others saying that it’s overpriced and average.

If you visit, don’t forget to join Rogue Nation.

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Venue Location

Rogue Ales Public House

748 SW Bay Blvd

Newport, OR 97365

USA

Tel: (541) 265-3188

www.rogue.com

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Robert Gale (Twitter: @awv)

Beer Taster, Pub Attendee, Photo Taker

Robert Gale likes beer, pubs and beer festivals. He also likes to take photos of beer, pubs and beer festivals. Most weekends of the year you can find him travelling around the UK (and sometimes beyond) photographing and reviewing good quality pubs and beer festivals. He also has a day job in the form of a web developer for Ozum.