According to a press release just published by Oregon’s Rogue Ales, the brewery is commemorating the decision of the Soviet Union’s President Mikhail Gorbachev that the Communist Party give up its 70-year long monopoly of political power — which happened on February 7th, 1990 — Rogue is releasing its very own Imperial Red on February 7th, 2008.
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