Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA

If you’re only going to have one beer tonight, make it this one ... or perhaps it’s the other way around.

Intense hops aroma, not much citrus, but a lot of spruce and flowers. Spring in an alpine meadow wouldn’t be far off. Pours a hazy, almost glowing red bronze with a modest yellowish head. Hits strong up front with coniferous and grassy hops, but cold, anyway, the mid-palate is off balance: the high alcohol content fights for supremacy with the downright syrupy sweetness, and it’s a stalemate. The finish mellows out, in toffee and caramel, while the hops lingers in a pleasant afteraste that lasts all evening.
</br> Would have rated lower, but as the beers warmed up, or maybe just as I warmed up, the powerful alcoholic warmth finally harmonized with the sweet and aromatic elements, as something like liquid crystallized ginger root. There is a wow in here, but cold it was overwhelmed by the whoa.

Bouteille de 330 ml. La bière se présente avec une couleur ambrée-orangée et une mousse beige modeste qui malgré son pourcentage d’alcool surélevé persiste un bon laps de temps. Au nez on découvre des arômes d’alcool, de sauce soya, de fruits secs, de gâteaux aux fruits, de pêche et de tourbe. En bouche le corps est très rond et liquoreux avec une effervescence faible-moyenne. Au départ on goûte le sucre, vient ensuite le côté salé de sauce sauce soya, par la suite on goûte les fruits rouges caramélisés en coalition avec le houblon. C’est tout un exploit de réussir une bière à 21% qui goûte moins l’alcool que la plupart des liqueurs au même pourcentage d’alcool.

Good god. Too much for my tastes. This is a once in a while brew. Wildey complex. Im very happy it was classified as an ASA, to call this an IPA is a travisty. Notes of strong greatfruit alcohol, vanilla, rotten.....I dotn even know, it smells like death and a hangover. Flavors were very intense lots of them. I thought I was going to be able to sit back and really enjoy its complexity but i really didnt. Ive got another bottle aging ill try it next year.

A whiff of hoppy aroma fills the room as you pop the cap. Your are teleported into a pine forest. A hazy brown beer that does not impress at first sight, but as you lift the glass, it punches you in the nose. Badass hoppy bitterness combined with full sweet malt. Amazing.

2006 Vintage Thanks By The Bottle! Pours amber orange in color with a slight fluffy head. Tried this beer along side an 08, what a difference 2 years makes. Still sweet, citrus hop, fruity flavor but the alcohol has mellowed and allowed the breadiness of the malts to peak out. Can’t wait for Vintage 06 vs 09

Draft. Had this one at an anniversery party at Moe’s Tavern. Very strong beer if thats what you call it. Extreme aroma and hop taste to it. There are very few beers that taste like this. Definitley a sipping beer.

12 oz. bottle. 2008 vintage. Previously had one of these on the night before my wedding with alexanderj and kleyland, but didn’t rate it. Pours an amber color. Medium sized, off white head. Aroma of citrus hops, molasses, and warming alcohol. Sweet flavor, with hints of dark pitted fruits, caramel, vanilla. Citrus hops are present, but not too overpowering. Finish is strongly alcoholic and bitter. Everyone should try this beer at least once.

12 oz bottle from trade deal. Pours slightly cloudy and amber orange with a smallish but puffy cap which lasts to lace the glass well. As it warms it gives off a pungent pine-citrus aroma with an underlying sweetness and light fusil alcohol-licorice tone. Big syrupy mouth feel, big bodied and boozy, a citus-pine hop bomb but surprisingly tame for the IBUs and Plato...long metalic bready aftertaste....BIG warming! Nothing like it.... Has to be experienced... it’s been described it as a hop liqueur..that’s it OK.