Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: American Strong Ale
Milton, Delaware USA

I have had several different years of this beer. Everytime I think its going have an extremely floral nose. I think the compounds responsible for aroma degrade rapidly due to the variance of bottles in the same case. On the other hand its dry hopped in the fermenter and then aged with hops for a month instead of bottling the freshly hopped beer. Same alcohol flavor as all of the other Dogfish Head big beers. Pretty bitter but can’t distinguish hop bitterness from the bitterness of the high alcohol flavor.

2007 bottle from Willow Bend Liquors (Tampa, FL). Cellar aged since released. Pours a slightly hazy deep amber orange color with a one finger creamy white head that settles quickly to virtually nothing. Aroma is sweet and floral with sweet and syrupy notes of brandy and alcohol, rich caramel and raisin aromas, some hints of wood, honey, ripe fruit, bready yeast. Flavor is sweet and floral as well with a stronger floral hop presence than in the nose. Notes of ripe dark fruit, caramel, raisins and candy sugar present as well. Generally full body with a floral and burning alcoholic finish.

Pours orange/brownish color. Nose is incredibly hop filled, with nice citrus and pine notes. Great mouth feel, excellent syrupy texture. Taste is of citrus hops. The finish has a great alcohol taste. Overall, and excellent beer.

Great aroma, florally, smells like beer perfume. Really, really, really sweet with a light caramel flavor.

12oz Bottle. A great beer to go with a special meal. Unbelievably Hoppy taste, but the bitterness fades very quickly towards the end. Certainly not an everyday beer, but excellent nonetheless.

An excellent beer if you like hops - and I mean really like hops. The heavy alcohol content does well to balance out the extreme hop flavors. An excellent special occasion beer.

Pours a murky apricot orange with a 1 finger ashy tan head that has decent retention and leaves tiny specks of lacing. Aroma is huge flora and citrus hops, some pine. Dig a little deeper and mango, pineapple, a hint of caramel, yeasty bread, bubblegum, unripe cherries, fresh cooked pasta and some sort of sweet booze that I can’t really pin down. Flavor is is interesting and very different for me. Up front is sweet naval orange, blood orange, bubblegum, mango, cherry, the malt notes are very mellow, sweet bread, heavily buttered toast, raw grain, and some dark fruit notes. Finish citrus and floral hops, pineapple, bubblegum, some other fruitiness and a little alcohol bite at the end. Not alot of bitterness. Palate is thick, sorta chalky at times, somewhat sticky and very oily.

Just finished this amazing beverage at the Petrol Station in Houston. Wow not just a great beer but what a hops head paradise. Go, Now! The Petrol rocks and Ben and Darren are at least demigods!