Rogue Now Makes A Beer Perfect for JMU Tailgating

Rogue has been crafting fine ales for decades. The wonderful folks from Newport, Oregon have recently created a special brew that might be just about the perfect JMU football tailgaiting beverage. You guessed it, it’s a purple. It’s called Wasted Sea Star Purple Pale Ale and it’s believed to be the world’s first purple beer.

Brewed with purple corn nectar, the beer has a distinct reddish-purple hue. And since it’s made by Rogue, you can count on it to be tasty. We’ve longed for a purple beverage to show our Dukes’ pride on gamedays. Sure, there’s Purple Drank, but we prefer to leave that to the Lil’ Waynes of the world. A purple pale ale is much more our style.

It turns out, the brewers at Rogue aren’t actually brewing this beer specifically for us Dukes fans. Shocking, we know. Instead, it’s being brewed to raise awareness of Sea Star Wasting Syndrome, which is a pandemic killing millions of sea stars along the Pacific Coast. A portion of the proceeds from the beer will go towards research to fight the pandemic. So it’s for a good cause. But mostly, it’s purple.

Sadly, the beer is only available in limited quantities in Oregon, Washington, and California. If any Dukes fans from out there will be making the trip back to the ‘burg this fall for a game, bring a few bottles of the purple stuff. And feel free to share.