Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA

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

Major thanks to a local bottle shop for this one! Cloudy orange pour with a fuzzy head. Double smell aged with just about everything. Sweet feeling with candied sugar. Wooooo! SO complex and flavorful! My taste buds are going crazy. Similar traits with Avery’s Beast, and very well done. Intense as HELL! Very glad to have gotten to try this one.

Medium head with a reddish color. Very hoppy with fruity and floral notes in the aroma. Strong hop content and bitterness tingle the back of the throat. A well balanced beer despite the huge hops and that makes it very drinkable.

Nice IPA aroma. Hops, honey, a touch of bitterness. The flavor was not as much alcohol as I expected, but still overwhelming. Maybe if it had time to age it would improve.

Golden color with a lasting white head. This one had been sitting in a refrigerator for many months. Srong hoppy aroma, balanced with the sweet aroma of malt and a bit of alcohol. Well balanced flavor. Not too sweet, not too bitter. This beer is amazing, for something so huge. The alcohol takes a back seat to the meshing flavors of hops and malt. Well made and a must try.

A slight chill haze yellowy-orange color, very thin white head barely lasts, but not expected really much there with the 20%. Fairly good amounts of delicately thin lacing though. Not much aroma wise, mostly some very soft butterscotch-like warmth in alcohol, seemingly malty sweet mostly with light touches of waxy fresh hops. Taste is quite warm, moderate malty sweetness mostly, a bit complex yet mild, subdued fruityness of melons and a few darkened qualities with yellow raisin and fig. Some toffee and butterscotch meld together with a schnapps-like boozy warmth. Ends with a little extra kick of warmth, somewhat port-like and/or even vinous in character. Feel is well rounded, smooth, clean, and pretty full with a little burn of booze nearer the end and has some nice lingering sweetened mixtures that come through late in the finish...ah yes more malts...and more warmth. This is a major sipper and a great warmer-upper. I can see how some would be put off by its unusual presense and unexpected character, I went in with an open mind not trying to judge it from what I knew about the long hopping process this brew has. I was either expecting something overly hoppy or heavy malted, its the later, more like a sweeter aged barleywine then anything. Quite nice.

Pours a thick opaque apricot color with a small light golden head. Faint aroma is full of hop, sweetness, and fruit. I had hoped the alcohol would be hidden somewhat but not so. Powerful hops are multi dimensional. While they don’t bring any significant tartness to the beer they do provide layers of bitterness. Sweetness is a major theme to the 120. This beer is over the top in alcohol, hop, sugar, and fruit. It is not a shy beer and is one to sip. Larger gulps are just too overpowering. Drinking this beer is kind of like wrestling with a super model. Your hands are definitely full but they are full of some amazing stuff.

re-rate. Huge hop nose, pine, grass, molasses, citrus; grapefruit. Pours a rich amber almost a light brown color with a dense white head that dissipates slowly. Huge malt backbone to balance the outragous hop flavor. Pine resin, big citrus hop flavor, with large amounts of caramel and molasses with brown sugar, sweet bread. And an enormous alcohol presence, 21% is hard to hide, it does well though. Surprisingly easy to drink for the hops and alcohol. Actually this beer is pretty well balanced, for the IBU’s and ABV...................O.G. rating. Hoppy grassy aroma. Pale golden color. Sweet yet hoppy. A bit acidic. Kind of earthy. Thick tasting. I love hops and the 120 does me right.

Smells pretty much like grain alcohol with a few hops. It’s like some fruity, piney, boozy madness in a bottle. That said, I don’t hate it, I just won’t be buying a whole lot more of this.