Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA

This is my third 12 oz bottle (not 3rd today) Got them all from the E Bremerton Red Apple (Gargiulles) - they are not out in the cooler; you need to ask the owner (Tim) to get one from the back. Nice cloudy orange color with a small head that reduces fast. Aroma is sugar cane, sweet fruits and hops. Taste is too sweet because the hoppiness is hidden behind the sugars. Nice warm and sweet finish - hops are more prevalent at the end. Tastes good, but disapointed after the 90 and all the hype.

Fresh from the brewery and graciously shared by a very generous friend. Pours with a fizzy body that soon becomes almost flat. It’s a mottled amber color with no cap and very faint lacing. Aroma is a medley of bitter-sweet ale, schnapps, and a fruity dry wine. Not what I was expecting but very intriguing nonetheless. Mouth feel is spritzy and has somewhat of a resemblance to balance. I really can’t believe how drinkable and "balanced" a beer of this magnitude actually is. It warms the belly, but is far from feeling hot. While enjoying my sample I found myself trying to figure out what I was tasting. After a while it dawned on me...Fresca! Yup good ol’ Fresca, nice fizzy grapefruity, sweet goodness. But it’s more than that it’s Fresca if it were a beer and then mixed with some high quality peach schnapps. Lot’s of apricot, peach, and citrus flavors involved with a malty backdrop of sugary sweetness followed by some bittering hops. Not at all what I would have guessed, not great but certainly better than my score indicates.

On draught at RnH (NYC): Pours like a shiny penny, smells like an apple. Tastes sweet and tart for a good while, until the very end when there’s a strong kick of pure alcohol that stays with you. But whatevs... it’s 18-21% alcohol! For its ABV, it tastes like a sweet, juicy gem (caramel, SUGAR, and maple syrup big time). It’s the ultimate mind trick. It’s awesome.

Pours like syrup. Call me crazy but I swear I smell glue(in fact I had my wife smell it just to see if I was crazy & she smelled glue). Taste is syrup, liquor(goes down smoother than liquor). Taste also like orange liqueur & leaves a little fire breath. I just think a highly rated beer should have more of a balance with it. Just because it is strong tasting doesn’t mean it should have a high rating. Kudos for pushing beer boundaries.

bottle(2008), pours dark copper, thin off white head. The booze can be smelled from feet away, Suprisingly nice aroma of grapefruit, citrus, and condensed milk and carmel. Sweet malty body, some biscuit and fruity yeast flavors as well, end with a light aromatic and lightly bitter hop bite. I’m suprised the alcohol is not felt, more of a heavy sweet candied pear and apricot with a mild bitterness following. Quite nice at 21 percent. The mouth is light to medium in body with a light carbonation. I like it.

sweet carmel aroma. super sweetness and high alcohol content aren’t very complementing. tasted the night of purchase. also bought another for aging, we’ll see if it improves.

On draught. Tasted of caramel, glazed ham, and rotten watermelon peels. More in common with a liqueur than an IPA--not a hint of bitterness here, either. Oversweet.

Pours a cloudy orange-brown with a super thin white head, almost oily at the surface. I can tell it is thick and sticky already because it started to run down the side of the bottle when I poured it too slowly. Talk about viscous. Smells of a ton of hops, very refreshing, with a bit of lightly caramelized sugar and of course, excitement! Pure peach juice in concentrate as well. Taste is...Wow, sweet. I poured half a beer and save the rest, but now I’m thinking I should have split it into thirds or quarters. So the flavor starts out with that sweet syrupy, peachyness. The bittering hops then eclipse the sweet briefly and fade to the edges of the tongue leaving what I would call a pleasant evanescent wave of the sugars and an even slighter reminiscence of the hops. Certainly interesting, totally fun. I wish the hops showed through more.