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by Greg McClanahan
(Editor's intro: Greg has coached some 150 manufactured home retailers and served firms such as Fleetwood Homes, Sam's Club, Conoco Philips and others with his success strategies, soft skills insights and training programs. Organizations large and small listen to Greg's gracious insights! If you want a professional development/training system that will truly produce lasting results, you should take a minute to see what is different about his approach. When you don't have time to continually provide personal development material to your staff, enlist the help of someone who has been and still is in the industry.)
The "Around the Campfire" Organization
A Unique and Effective Training and Development Approach
by Greg McClanahan - President
We all want to be better, do more, and make a difference. Desire does not stand in our way of becoming better; the problem generally is a lack of time to devote to improving ourselves. We truly are busy and even though we know it is time well spent, our own self-development often takes a back seat to other demands. To inspire a student, we must be inspired. To provide excellent patient care, we must maintain a compassionate heart. To be a great leader we must be an effective communicator of our vision and know how to inspire others. In other words, in order to give our best in any endeavor, we must be our best. When we are continually growing personally, we can 'give' up to our potential.
There are laws and principles that govern us. The law of the harvest is that we reap what we sow. If you plant corn, you will never harvest wheat. The law of gravity tells us that if you drop a rock off the roof of a building, it will always go down, never up. The law of maintaining our health requires, exercise and good nutrition. When we understand these laws, we can work within their boundaries and apply them to our advantage and success.
There are laws, patterns, and principles of success pertaining to human behavior and human interaction as well. Universal rules and roadmaps that, if followed, will help us achieve the highest levels of success in our career – no matter what career we've chosen. None of these laws and principles are kept secret; we just have to discover them and then use them to enhance our success.
In The Contended Achiever by Don Hutson, George Lucas and Chris Crouch, they state; "You must have a profound understanding of the principles that influence your life. And, if you are serious about creating the life that you desire, you must become a master at applying your knowledge to daily events. By [so] doing, you can get from where you are to where you want to be."
Because our free time is limited, what we need to discover is how we can improve our efficiency at uncovering, understanding and applying the principles that influence our lives. We need to find a way to help us internalize these principles so that they become a part of our character and thus automatically be applied to daily events. By utilizing the available tools of discovery we can improve ourselves today and reduce the number of missed opportunities or costly mistakes tomorrow. Each day we can better our previous best.
Available Tools
There are organizations and individuals who have dedicated themselves to exploring, discovering and documenting specific human behavioral characteristics and professional development skills. There are seminars, books, workbooks, CD's, and DVD's that can accelerate our understanding of a specific skill. There are corporate retreats and in-service meetings devoted to teaching a new skill or to reinforce the importance of existing procedures. It is estimated that there are over 100 new professional development books published each month.
Availability of information is not the problem. The problem often times is that there is too much information. Thus, what ideas are the most beneficial to you and how can you possibly sift through all of the authors in a timely manner so that the information becomes meaningful, manageable and useful? Being overwhelmed with these choices legitimately prevents us from knowing how to use these valuable tools, and where to even start. The reason many of us don't devote time to ourselves is because it takes too long to sift through all the sand to find the nuggets.
The Around the Campfire Organization
The Around the Campfire organization was formed out of a desire to provide a simplified means of communicating and encouraging an understanding of the principles that influence our lives. To inspire greatness and encourage the mastery of the skills that promote personal excellence.
First, we needed to improve the means of distribution of, and accessibility to, the principles, patterns and pathways to the character traits associated with successful individuals. We make it possible for even the busiest individual to have time to be inspired by positive, reinforcing personal development ideas. We accomplish this by consolidating the ideas of the best authors and present them in short messages that allow the information to be more manageable, meaningful and useful. We sift through the ever growing library of material and topics so that we can refine them into bite-sized messages where you can quickly learn the best parts. The crowning effort we make to reinforce these ideas is in finding and presenting stories of individuals that have exemplified the particular character traits we are studying. We therefore connect the instructional information to a practical example and thereby make the skill more applicable to the 'real world.' Information is great but application is king.
Secondly, we wanted to create an environment that supported consistency and discipline in the participant's exposure to these success principles. According to Steve Siebold, author of Secrets of the World Class, "Discipline is the watchword of great performers. Discipline makes the difference between the good and the great." A seminar, for example, is a good jump-start, however, consistent exposure to success principles and patterns is required over an extended period of time in order to support the mastery of that skill and thereby form new habits. We provide the extended exposure, at a consistent frequency, so that mastery can take place. Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.
If you hired a personal trainer to help you get in shape, you could more easily meet your goals because you would be forced to maintain consistency and discipline. The trainer spends hours behind the scenes creating, monitoring and adjusting your work out program and planning your meals. Your success still depends on you. You must follow the plan, but the work has been done for you so that implementation is manageable and achievable. In like manner, our organization is your professional development trainer. Our "soft skills" consolidated curriculum is now presented in multiple graduate level, college-accredited courses. While many organizations do not engage our organization for college credit, enrollment is available for professionals that require continuing education units to maintain their licensing. Our curriculum provides the ideal format to enhance the mastery of skills. One idea builds upon another and continues to reinforce the previously discussed ideas. We reveal the constants in human interaction and continue to reinforce their significance and application until they are mastered and become an inherent part of our character.
The Education Format
Our program is Internet based. An e-mail is sent to each participant every Monday and Thursday morning. Within the e-mail is a link that takes them directly to a client specific customized website and displays 'Today's Message.' The reading and study of the message should not take more than 10-15 minutes. Monday's message is instructional and defines the specific attributes associated with a particular principle or skill. Thursday is a story of 'Everyday Greatness.' Each story reinforces the Monday message with a practical example of the defined principle in an everyday life setting. We show an ordinary person exemplifying extraordinary greatness.
An Indian Proverb says: "Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever."
The power of stories is integrated into our curriculum for the simple fact that for a principle or skill to take life and have meaning, we need to know how to apply it in an everyday setting. Stories help us own the principle because we can more easily remember a story and thereby, it will live in our character forever. Through our weekly story, we will likely describe a situation that a participant may find him or herself in at some point in their own life and career. Through these examples, the participant will have the right thoughts and the right words at the just the right time to act in a manner of greatness.
We also archive all previous messages so that they are readily available on the website under an 'Archive Messages' tab. Our hope is that a message may be referred back to when an event demands a reminder of a particular skill or to re-familiarize ourselves with the details of an applicable story.
In Tiger Traits Dr. Nate Booth writes; "In business, we must learn again and again what's important in any situation, so we can pay attention to the small things that will have the biggest impact." There are things that we know about the way we learn as well as the way we forget. Mastery of a skill or talent comes from continual repetition and practice. The longer it has been since we have had exposure to, or use of, a particular skill, the less likely we are to remember it at the very moment when it would have made all the difference. Because we forget, we have to set in place a method of reminding ourselves. The Around the Campfire program assists in encouraging the discipline it takes to support this 'remembering' process. Vince Lombardi said, "The will to win…The will to achieve…Goes dry without continual reinforcement."
Supplementing With The Campfire Program
The Around the Campfire Organization also works with companies in a "private label" arrangement. We take your existing curriculum, combine it with ours, and convert it into a series of manageable messages designed to reinforce what your employees have received in other company-produced training programs. Our website programming will be made to look like an extension of your company and can then assist you in enhancing the retention and mastery of each skill. We will provide the ongoing "reading and doing" messages and stories that inspire and encourage personal excellence. We will help your employees be their best so they can give their best.
In the spirit of excellence, we invite you to explore what we can do together to make a difference in peoples lives. To aid in the development of character traits possessed by the most successful individuals in the world. To help a participant experience moments of clarity as to their incredible potential. To inspire everyday greatness.
A Side Note: Why the Campfire Name?
Our philosophy dates back to the traditional village when everyone gathered 'around the campfire' each evening. It was in this comfortable environment where traditions were taught, characters were shaped, heroes were remembered, unity was enhanced, relationships were cultivated, and camaraderie was enjoyed. There is something about a campfire still today that encourages us to look up at the stars and dream a little, and reflect on our life's ambitions.
The fire attracts our attention and provides satisfying warmth. The lesson the fire itself teaches us is that the strength of its warmth is enhanced when all the embers are unified. You will notice that when an ember falls away from the center of the fire, it quickly fades from its glowing orange color, however once it is placed back into the fire, its color returns and begins to burn brightly again.
We are no different as human beings. We must have continual exposure to success principles in order for them to emanate throughout our lives. We must keep the embers of success properly placed in the center of the fire and burning brightly in our lives. Through disciplined participation and study, positive habits will replace those that may be keeping us from achieving our best.
Greg McClanahan is the President and founder of the Around the Campfire Organization. This serves as a part time commitment while he works full time for the Southern Ute Indian Tribes factory build housing operations as their National Sales Manager. It was five years earlier when Greg sold his company, now Innovative Homes to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and remained with them as their investment fund moved forward in this new venture.
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Let's not beat around the bush. When I talk about desktop Linux, what I really mean is Linux on laptops.
An unfair benchmark? Maybe so. Still, today the notebook is king. Tasked with serving the needs of real-world professionals, a growing number of IT shops have all but forsaken traditional beige boxes in favor of black briefcases.
So how does Linux fare on your average laptop today? Actually, pretty well. Most distributions correctly identify laptop screens, pointing devices, and other peripherals. Support for wireless networking is functional for many chip sets. PCMCIA cards are well-supported. Even basic power-saving features are in place.
Although these are all impressive achievements, they're not enough. Getting a car's engine to turn over is one thing; taking the car out for a spin on the freeway is something else. Although basic mobility functionality is available today, casual users are likely to find that Linux is still deficient in areas fundamental to how most people use their laptop.
By way of example, let's look at two installations I attempted just last week. One was Ubuntu 5.04 on a Fujitsu P5010 ultraportable. The other was Novell Linux Desktop 9 on an IBM ThinkPad R31. Neither machine was chosen for any particular reason. As is often the case at most companies, they were simply what was on hand. I chose the Linux distributions because they both offer a polished desktop user experience.
Novell's product isn't based on the latest Suse Linux, so I thought it best to run it on conservative, older hardware. Sure enough, it installed on my R31 without a hitch. It even offered to shrink the existing Windows partition on the drive and install the OS in the newly available space. Three discs of installation media later and I was looking at a brand-new Linux desktop.
To my disappointment, however, I soon found that the mouse cursor would sometimes fly around uncontrollably, launching applications at random and dragging menus around the screen. A Google search revealed that this R31-specific problem is related to -- wait for it -- the Linux power-management software. Disable any programs that might be polling the battery level, I was told, and the problem would probably go away. But where to find those programs? The system will be practically unusable until I track them down.
The newly released Ubuntu fared better on the P5010. A year ago Intel's Centrino chip set would have given Linux pains, but the latest kernel handles the chip set with no trouble. The only problem here was the screen. The tiny Fujitsu runs its wide-screen LCD at an unusual resolution. It works fine under Windows, but Linux can't use its full area. There's a fix available, but it involves compiling C source code. No Linux distribution ships with the fix by default.
And forget old habits such as shutting the laptop screen to put it to bed. Advanced power-management features such as Standby and Suspend did not work properly on either machine.
As a hobbyist, I found these to be minor problems. For business users they would be showstoppers.
If Linux is to escape the datacenter, laptop compatibility needs to be job one. But this task doesn't rest solely with developers. Hardware manufacturers must first take on their share of the burden. Why aren't vendors such as Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, and Toshiba doing more to support open source on their hardware? Are they waiting for their competitors to do it first?

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Sunday, January 1 1995
Venus beaute (institut) (1999)
Rather, it only suggests that when something beautiful comes your way, you should hold onto it for as long as you're able.
Valentine (2001)
Valentine's message is that women who overstep their bounds deserve physical, motional, and sexual abuse, because of how they perpetually victimize men. And so, what is actually scariest about 'Valentine' is the film's tacit attitude that these girls had it coming.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
And yet, for its many pleasures, I find myself conflicted in thinking about The Virgin Suicides.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
It's hardly a new idea, to read into adolescent girls' suicide something poetic, passionate, and deeply meaningful. Neither is it a secret that countless girls have admired Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman, seeing in their wounded and inviolate art reflections of themselves, their own pain and enchantment.
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001)
'The Vertical Ray of the Sun' [begins with] the quiet wonder of a morning that is not rushed, allowed to unfold itself moment by gentle moment.
The Visit (2001)
Unlike currently popular representations of prison -- say, your average Sly-Stallone-type-in-prison movie or Tom Fontana's justly celebrated HBO series, 'Oz', made dazzling with acrobatic camerawork and fast-cut editing -- 'The Visit' is unflashy, almost to a fault.
Unbreakable (2000)
'Unbreakable' might be best described as 'Die Hard' for art-house audiences.
Under Suspicion (2000)
There's not much in this film that's subtle, but it does actually have something thoughtful to say about the ways that we perceive and assume truth, or the ways we might be convinced of some untruth because of our own anxieties. What you see can be -- and usually is -- deceiving.
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Amy's just come up with her final project concept: a serial killer whose murders are based on urban legends. (Um, didn't someone already make this movie?)"
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
It's hard not to expect the worst of Universal Soldier: The Return. It's clear in his late-night talk show interviews that the big
Up at the Villa (2000)
What were they thinking? In Up at the Villa, Sean Penn plays a wealthy American rapscallion tearing around 1938's Europe, arching his eyebrow by way
Urbania (2000)
'Urbania' is all about stories, how they're told and how they are received, who shares and who withholds, or what anyone might mean by telling a story.
A Nazi U-boat commander, peering through a periscope, locks a merchant ship in his sights. After giving the order to fire, he studies the ship's flaming wreckage and proclaims that the crew has succeeded in breaking her back.
Tape (2001)
What it gets you thinking about, while you watch it and for some time afterwards, is whether anyone can ever know what has 'happened,' and more disturbingly, how the tendency to want such knowledge can be violent.
True Crime (1999)
Steve Everett is an old-school newspaper reporter, the kind who has improbable hunches that turn out to be right, who gives investigative reporters a good name, who's relegated to fiction these days. He's also more complicated than that, a self-styled macho boozer and womanizer, but recently slipped into another state, feeling confused and a little pathetic.
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Instead of making bold political statements, 'Drunken Horses' shows how its characters -- and the people they represent -- suffer, yet endure.
Thirteen Days (2000)
There are lots of men in Thirteen Days. Upstanding, committed men, wearing somber suits, short haircuts, and serious looks on their faces. And serious they
Trippin' (1999)
Trippin' opens with an impressively choreographed song and dance number, carefully emulating a Hype Williams rap video. Player's in his big white house, laying
Tomcats (2001)
'Tomcats' is a morally reprehensible film about bad people behaving badly.
Tomb Raider (2001)
This spectacular image of androgynous, self-stimulating sexual excess speaks directly to the wonder and threat of Lara Croft, so adept at masculine and feminine wiles, and every wile in between.


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Investing.com - U.S. natural gas futures ended Friday's session close to a six-month low, as concerns over tight supplies continued to fade away.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, natural gas for delivery in August fell to a session low of $4.106 per million British thermal units, the weakest level since January 10, before turning higher to settle at $4.146 by close of trade, up 0.63%, or 2.6 cents.
Natural gas futures ended Thursday's session down 1.2%, or 5.0 cents, to settle at $4.120.
Futures were likely to find support at $4.106 per million British thermal units, the low from July 3 and resistance at $4.459, the high from July 2.
Nymex natural gas prices lost 5.06%, or 22.1 cents, on the week, the fourth consecutive weekly decline.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report released Thursday that natural gas storage in the U.S. in the week ended July 4 rose by 93 billion cubic feet, above expectations for an increase of 92 billion cubic feet.
The five-year average change for the week is an increase of 72 billion cubic feet.
Total U.S. natural gas storage stood at 2.022 trillion cubic feet as of last week, 24.4% below their level this time last year and 27.5% below the five-year average.
Meanwhile, updated weather-forecasting models called for cooler temperatures across most parts of the heavily-populated Midwest and Northeast regions over the next five days.
Demand for natural gas tends to fluctuate in the summer based on hot weather and air conditioning use.
Data from the Commodities Futures Trading Commission released Friday showed that hedge funds and money managers significantly decreased their bullish bets in natural gas futures in the week ending July 8.
Net longs totaled 36,906 contracts, down 32.6% from net longs of 54,778 in the previous week.
Elsewhere in the energy complex, crude oil for August delivery settled at $100.83 a barrel by close of trade on Friday, down 2.83%, or $2.94 a barrel, on the week.
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Fitness with a real beat: The Pound workout
Dipping to smack the floor with drumsticks and then hitting them overhead while doing leg lifts, then doing it double time, is, in fact, quite challenging.
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YOUR INNER DRUMMER will light up as soon as you're handed a pair of neon green drumsticks. Resist hitting every available surface at Elite Performance Center as you wait for the Pound Rockout Workout class to begin.
Once class starts, you are free to unleash your drumming talents. And if there is no talent, the music is loud and no one will be the wiser.
At first, I thought the Pound workout looked a little over-the-top. Working out with drumsticks? What will people dream up next? Can't we all just find something active that we like and call it a day?
Then the class started. There was something immediately gratifying about hitting the floor with drumsticks and clapping them sharply together overhead.
Adding drumsticks to typical fitness-class moves isn't nearly as straightforward as it might seem. Dipping to smack the floor with drumsticks and then hitting them overhead while doing leg lifts, then doing it double time, is, in fact, quite challenging. And the constant floor-to-overhead motion requires balance to stay upright. Shoes are optional; I did the workout barefoot.
Using drumsticks helps you work your body evenly; you can hear when you don't hit the floor on both sides, for example, said Amanda McVey, a master trainer for the workout. McVey said there are about 15,000 strikes in a workout; I think I heard every single one I missed.
Some of the more challenging moves include holding squats and hitting the floor in front and behind your feet. Another included holding a lunge while hitting the floor on the right and left sides.
Even sitting on the floor, leaning back and swiveling side to side hitting the ground with drumsticks is an effective way to work your core.
The Pound workout probably works your core and glutes the most, especially with all the leg lifts, bending and rising back up. Cardio is at play, too, when you go into double time. Luckily, none of the songs lasted long enough to make me feel like I couldn't make it through.
The drumming itself also is simple. We didn't learn any complicated patterns, which made me feel far more impressed with my drumming skills than I probably should have been. Coordinating the drumming with leg crunches was a different matter.
The class also was impressively in sync with the music, pounding the drumsticks in time together throughout class.
Pound may not be a workout you want to do every day. But it is super fun, and a challenging and balanced way to work your whole body. Let your inner drummer have a 60-minute heyday, then make sure you return your drumsticks.
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Here's another piece I recently came across that definitely qualifies as "Signs Of The Time" material. Therefore, I'll designate it as a runner-up SOTT. While the gun rights movement has made tremendous strides in recent years, gun "control" efforts continue on unabated. An example of this is the attempt to eradicate the image of the gun in popular culture, like in professional sports. From Paul Lukas on the ESPN website last Friday:
You wouldn't expect to see gun control happening in Texas, but that's what will be taking place at a few Astros games this year.
Here's the deal: The Astros are marking their 50th anniversary this season, so they'll be wearing an assortment of throwback uniforms for Friday home games. That includes the uniform of the Houston Colt .45s, which was the team's name for the first three years of the franchise's existence.
But in a move that's outraging uniform historians and firearms fans alike, the Astros have decided to make a significant tweak to the Colt .45s jersey design. They're removing the smoking handgun.
Ugh. Whatever your thoughts about the Second Amendment, this is a design disaster. What's the point of having a "C" formed by a whisp of gunsmoke when there's no gun to produce the smoke?
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3.5/5 rDev -3%
07-23-2014 14:18:58 | More by Chuffbomb
3.25/5 rDev -10%
08-12-2014 03:24:42 | More by LukeGude
3.25/5 rDev -10%
01-29-2014 03:02:11 | More by kybeerdrinker
3.5/5 rDev -3%
06-03-2013 03:31:45 | More by stript
3.18/5 rDev -11.9%
A- Golden yellow color with minimal head, but what is there is bright white. Totally transparent. Lacing is somewhat present on the sides of the glass.
S- Sour hops. Also, some floral and citurs smells there, but not alot like most pale ales. Caramel is very light, but is also present.
T- Semi bitter hops. Citrus and florals are there as specified in the nose.
M- Low carbonation (possibly from the tap) and is oily.
D- Does not go one way or another. Just average to me.
Overall- Just Ok. Decent ale, but is somewhat watery to me. It may be because this was from the tap, but I will definitely give another try to distinguish if this is indeed true.
01-01-2008 00:37:51 | More by MMAJYK
4/5 rDev +10.8%
01-28-2014 00:01:46 | More by Vanz
3/5 rDev -16.9%
07-28-2013 20:43:19 | More by Dcunicelli
3.58/5 rDev -0.8%
I had heard of Yellow Snow before...who hasn't with its infamous name, but when I saw Juniper Pale Ale on the shelf I thought it was a new offering from Rogue. Regardless I've always wanted to try a Juniper inspired beer and this was my chance...
Basically a crystal clear orange body with a very small head composed of rather large bubbles. Disappeared to almost nothing rather quickly. This aspect definately needs to be worked on.
Aroma indicates this to be a pretty balanced beer between the hops and malts. Hops come out with a citrus and earthy side while the malts present a caramel sweetness with some buttery notes. Deep within are the subtle hints of what I assume to be some juniper. We don't have junipers in the south so I wouldn't know, but I have my suspicions as to what they smell like.
Taste is light. This would be acceptable in my book if there was a lighter malt/hop taste and a more pronouced dose of the juniper which the beer intends to highlight. Taste which is there offers up some bitterness in the finish in the form of a floral flavor which goes into a resin hop finish. Malt comes in slightly bready. Some subtle cedar berry hints in the finish (cedar is what I'm more familiar with, haha). But the only reason I would recognize that is b/c of the beer's name. Some buttery notes are introduced as well.
Mouthfeel is okay. A bit thin. Coats the mouth well enough. Drinkability is only a bit above average. The taste is alright, but any more than the bomber and I'd call it quits.
Not what I was expecting. I think this beer should be simplified a bit and hit a little heavier with the juniper to really allow this unique ingredient to shine. I think that the flavor combinations work against each other and down play the key player in this one.
07-12-2005 01:40:31 | More by blitz134
4.28/5 rDev +18.6%
Hazy light brass color with a good head to go with it. Nose consisted of various items. Orange, lemon, ginger, junipers in the background. Citrus hops and pine hops come out of the woodwork as well. Taste is rather herbal and earthy with orange and spices coming together that work well together. Junipers come out in the finish and last into the aftertaste. I like how the flavors go together in this brew. Mouthfeel was mediumish with good carbonation. Almost seems to be a full bodied beer, but the carbonation sets is straight. Solid beer and perhaps one of Rogue's underrated beers.
01-11-2006 20:59:25 | More by necoadam
4/5 rDev +10.8%
11-22-2011 07:48:27 | More by bob727
3.5/5 rDev -3%
03-29-2012 22:48:57 | More by sneth019
4/5 rDev +10.8%
22 oz. Bottle
Appearance: This beer poured a hazey, deep golden color. The light tan head rose up big and chunky. A thin layer stuck around and helped to deposit a decent amount of lace on the glass.
Smell: There was a sweet malt smell combined with a very floral hops aroma.
Mouthfeel: A medium-bodied brew that was smooth. After I swallowed the beer, there was an oily, slick feeling left in my mouth.
Taste: There were some mild malt flavors up front that gave way to a hoppy bitterness. The hops was not a clean bitterness; it tasted like it felt in the mouth: oily. There was a sharp, almost fruity flavor on the finish with the hops. It might have been due to the juniper berries, but I can't say for sure since I have no idea what a juniper berry tastes like.
Overall, this was a decent brew. I wish it was a little more balanced and had a cleaner, drier finish to it, though.
03-02-2003 14:30:16 | More by Quaffer
North Carolina
3.78/5 rDev +4.7%
Golden orange color with creamy one-finger eggshell colored head. Nice lace.
Sweet orangey citrus hops, hint of pine, with spicy perfume scent on top; hint of caramel.
Pale malts, mildly sweet with hints of orange. Good amount of hops to balance throughout that builds to a bitter and slightly spiced finish.
Smooth, almost creamy, full-bodied Pale Ale. Good hearty Pale that is pretty sessionable.
05-15-2008 07:16:40 | More by BeerZack
Quebec (Canada)
2.65/5 rDev -26.6%
My second taste of Rogue after Dead guy ale.
A- A flat looking dirty gold. There's lacing but almost no head.
S- A bit of sweet beet or tomato juice. Some hops and iron.
T- Same as the smell. Not too good but I like it. A bit oh honey hop. Black tea.
M- Weak carbonation, pretty thin. Feels like an unfinished homebrew.
D- Good. I could drink a few of these but they'd have to be colder to make up for the rest.
Won't buy it again but would drink it again.
EDIT: Read the other reviews and I'm seeing discrepancies, especially in regards to the mouthfeel. So I'm guessing I may have gotten a subpar bottle.
05-06-2010 03:06:43 | More by Yoonisaykul
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3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
12-29-2013 13:42:43 | More by Schmoog
2.75/5 rDev -23.8%
Pours a brilliant burnt orange color that is hazed a bit and produced a modest white head that dissipates to a light layer covering the beer like a blanket. It has a very, very faint aroma with nearly no discernable aromas. This is a very unique characteristic, or lack there of from an awesome brewery. The taste reveals lightly sweet malt with a well-pronounced hop. It is light bodied and finishes with a slightly dry bitter. Not a great representation of the style, but it could be a great crossover beer to get a macro drinker familiar with hops without shocking their taste buds. Cheers!
02-14-2003 19:48:27 | More by BeerAngel
3.6/5 rDev -0.3%
Pours a straw color with a 2-finger yellowish head. Minimal lacing.
Smell is made up of yeast, amarillo and crystal hops--piney and floral. The taste is piney and flowery hops with juniper berries. Quite bitter. Medicinal aftertaste. Mouthfeel is very carbonated, light to medium-bodied.
This is fair in the drinkability area. The aftertaste is a little medicinal and if you don't like juniper berries, it's not for you. The hops make it worthwhile.
04-04-2010 03:28:12 | More by theghost3
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
07-30-2013 05:17:13 | More by Hardcore
3.95/5 rDev +9.4%
Pours a hazy yellowish orange with a thing white head that lingers for a while. Aroma is spruce and grapefruit hops over a big bready maltiness. Taste is a strong pale malt flavor followed by the piney hops and clean berry aftertaste which I'm assuming is the juniper. Medium bodied, very smooth, and just a slight hop oiliness, this is has a good mouthfeel. Not really familiar with juniper, I was apprehensive about this, but it's really just a solid APA with a slight berry taste--very nice.
07-08-2005 00:07:44 | More by cubedbee
North Carolina
3.65/5 rDev +1.1%
Pours a slightly cloudy dark gold, almost amber color. Not much head but good lace. The first whiff I got upon opening the bottle was a nice hop floralness. Once in the glass I also got the rich malt aromas and some slight citrus. Flavor is what I consider a standard craft pale ale, slightly carmelized malt followed by a slightly spicy hop flavor. Nothing special, but not macroized (if thats a word) either. A bit watery but that makes it more drinkable to me as I am not a huge hop head. All in all a decent beer but nothing special.
04-11-2005 01:14:06 | More by sabrills70
3.5/5 rDev -3%
11-28-2012 03:30:41 | More by salinasa
3.5/5 rDev -3%
09-01-2012 23:35:35 | More by Kornoms
4.35/5 rDev +20.5%
Rogue Yellow Snow Ale, despite its humble name, is immensely complex. The nose is light hops and rye. The ultimate flavor of the amarillos -- notes of citrus, pear, and mango -- shines through on every sip.
So, fine -- amarillo pale ales have been done and they're delicious, but who cares? Rogue uses this glorious hop as more than a flavoring agent. It's used to bring out the unique fruit of the juniper berry. And who would have ever thought, after having had handles upon fifths of Beefeater and, even, Bombay, that juniper had such rich flavor. It is, indeed, a berry that's found its long-lost soul mate in the amarillo hop. This pairing is more than commendable, it's downright holy. Sure, the initial taste is this weird leafy citrus and the finish (I seriously encourage you to burp) is fruity gin, but between these two extremes I taste saison, wheat, and crisp, oaky chardonnay. The beer begs for fish.
The flavor isn't as menacing as Old Crustacean, as precise as I2PA, or as rich as Morimoto Hazelnut. Yellow Snow is a dictum of creativity and subtle craft that challenges the drinker, the brewer, and beer en masse.
Relax, relax.
11-20-2003 23:25:13 | More by ngandhi
New York
3.63/5 rDev +0.6%
On tap poured into pint glass
a: hazy straw yellow color, minimal head that does reduce into lacing
s: citrus aroma and hops dominate
t: slight malt sweetness quicly overpowered by hop bitterness. Slight citrus bite. Very nice, definatlty for hop heads though
m&d: medium bodied, with decent carbonation. Can be a session beer if not imtimidated by hop bitterness
12-13-2008 21:06:21 | More by UDbeernut
4.15/5 rDev +15%
First taste of Amarillo hops that I'm aware of, and I like 'em. Creamy full mouthfeel. Floral nose with a definite malt presence. A draught takes you through a wide range of flavor, but this beer's unique characteristic is the bitter juniper finish that sits on the back of your tongue for hours. I wanted to drink it out of a martini glass with a fat garlic stuffed olive rolling about.
05-10-2002 09:37:36 | More by inebrius
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