Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA

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

Bottled: Deep golden coloured. Clear. Small whitish head. Sweet and herbal beer. Grassy, alcoholdense and hoppy. Is light perfumed. Smooth mouthfeel. Is full bodied. Alcohol is very evident, but dosn’t totally dominate the beer. Ends on a dense alcohol bitterness. Thanks Rasmus for giving me a taster of this. Looking forward to the bottle, that should hit me in a trade.

’03 bottle. Pours orangey with low carbonation. Smell is overwhemingly hoppy with all the usual hop elements present. Taste has more of that awesome hop profile with some nice caramelly notes. Thick mouthfeel and citrussy finish.

Deep orange colour with a brandy-like, almost still appearance. Sweet vineous malt character, ice wine aroma, cookie dough and toffee malts. Some berry fruitiness. Flavour is very sweet showing toffee, caramel, white grapes with a light white pepper spiciness in the finish. Very sticky and chewy.

Deep orange and clear with a suprisingly big white head. Subtle sweet aroma, slightly soapy and light. Drinking this thing is a task. Extrememly thick and immediately sweet and puckery on the first sip. Hits the mouth with the most overpowering sweet maltiness and sweet peach flavor imaginable. I'd hardly call this thing beer... seems like an experiment that went horribly wrong. Barely drinkable, so for this it loses points. The bittering hops do their job near the finish, thrusting your head into one of those "jaw kinks" that you get when you bite a pickle. This stuff is upsetting my stomach.

A rich amber color with a strong initial carbonation, a tan head that dissipated, yet clung to the sides of the glass, a surprisingly mild hop aroma... and a flavor that kicks ass. The alcohol taste was negligible. What you get is a hopped-up brew that is very drinkable, and I will have it again.

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Do not drink this cold! Sweet alcohol and aromas straight out of a hop extraction plant, Alpha heaven (or hell if you are not hops oriented). Orange citrus nose. Thick amber liquid with a head that look like the eye in Lord of the Rings after a 10 minutes or so. Just a lid of very tiny cream colored bubbles. Start with a pine sap flavor then the sweetness follows quickly, and lots of it. Overripe fruit galore, including bananas, pineapple, and raisins. Thick in near oily in feel. Corn syrup flavors tend to build as you continue. Perhaps the senses are getting numbed and shutdown. But it does seem to getting cloying and nearly unbearable towards the end. Still as a malt liqueur, I would enjoy 4 to 6 oz. a night.

Bottle@Home. Very sweet aroma with Madeira, raisin and a hint of grass. Red/brown colour, yellow firm head, good lace. Very sweet, strong Madeira, very bitter, lots of grassy hops, ginger in the finish. Sticky, cloying, burning in your mouth for ages. Beautiful balance, very flavourful, it aged for about 2.5 years (estimated).

Let's see here...I don't have much to say about this one. It pours a light copper color. Aroma is lightly hoppy (like SNPA) with the alcohol coming through when it warms. Flavor is very sweet with a fresh hop presence. This isn't very big or over the top as I was expecting, very straight forward. The thing that gets me it the ABV. They hide this alcohol like jenna jamison hides the....oh, nevermind.