Dogfish Head Au Courant

Formerly brewed at Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Milton, Delaware USA

2004 bottle i assume. Pours purple/amber with a tiny pink head. Almost looks like Lindemans Framboise. Aroma is cardboardy malt. Taste is weak malt up front with a very sweet fruit aftertaste. Wheat taste as well. No hop characteristics at all in this beer. A poor offering from DFH (and I even thought the Festina Lente was good)

Slightly spicey, like sauteed ginger. "Bolster my bluster." Hm, right. I don’t feel myself getting any more impenetrable to this oncoming cold, but I do feel the alcohol coming on into my bloodstream. Kinda bitter tasting.

Light Amber-pink hue. Generous off-white head. Uncomplex leafy (flowery) currant aroma, tartish and candyish. Reminiscent of a southampton peconic county without character. Maybe a bit better than it’s made out to be, but at 7% and from that brewer, you’re bound to expect more extraodinary artifacts. The only grief I have against it is considerable, I don’t see it going anywhere without the currants, the base beer would be seriously bland.

Blueberry Beer. Or something. Mixed with raisins? Wholly unimpressive beer. I suppose the alcohol is well-hidden, but add another slightly dissapointing beer to the Dogfish roster.

I thought I loved everything Dogfish Head made...until I had this one. Deep cranberry-ish reddish purple color that looked kinda neat. The pinkish head was a little disconcerning, but hey. The flavor was just wrong. Like drinking some kind of tarty, fizzy cranberry juice. I’ve learned from my mistakes and now I know never to have this again.

Pours deep ruby with a pink head. No lacing. Smell is candy sugar, fruit and leather. Taste is a melange of dark fruit: plums, currents, raisons, plums and grapes. Very winelike.

Musty, eggy malt aroma. Color was just wrong - peptobismol pink head. Thinnish mouth. Flavor was mildly tart, very lightly sweet, underhopped and boring. Not worth the effort.

Golden, light amber, pouring with a massive airy head. Super sweet nose. Nice alcoholy-sugary flavors ... distinct flavorof sweettarts, almost. Different, and good.