Dogfish Head Burton Baton

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Milton, Delaware USA

12 oz. bottle. Muddy orange color. Medium sized off-white head. Big, sweet, citrus hop aroma. Malty body with a nice bit of sweetness. Vanilla notes, oak, dark fruits. Subtle hop flavors lurking in the background. Nice and smooth body with a hint of warming alcohol.

Bottle bonused courtesy on fiver29. Pours a clear dark amber color with an initial one finger head that fades fast with zero lacing. Nose is sweet malt, caramel and alcohol. Palate is sweet malt, some oak, maybe a touch of vanilla. Not much hop for the style. Alcohol is hot on this one – has the burn the back of your throat aspect. Too unbalanced for my taste.

Dogfish Head Burton Baton is a hazy amber ale with a medium, off-white head. The aroma is sweet with some note of alcohol and the flavor is sugary with some apples. This is very complex and the mixture with the 90 minute IPA make this very nicely balanced.

Served cold from 12 oz. bottle. After learning about the (seemingly) complicated brewing process, I was extremely anxious to drink this beer. Dark amber in color, with a quickly dissipating white head. Rich aroma filled with hops and a hint of the oak barrels. Taste is quite good, hoppy and warm. Smooth for an IPA, not as bitter as others. Preferable over the Rogue I2PA.

Wonderful beer. Oak aging adds richness and complexity of taste and aroma. Takes a bit of the edge of the extreme bitterness of some dogfish’s IPAs.

The beer pours a copper, kind of ruby reddish color. The aroma is hoppy and fruity, a little winey, not tremendously strong but nice. The flavor is spicy and hoppy, some fruits, wood (oak?), a bit sour and syrupy. There’s kind of a medicine taste to it. This ended up being quite different than I expected but still decent enough.

Bottled on 12/29/2007

3/16/2008: DFH Burton Baton pours a nice, deep ambercolor with a thin off-white head. The aroma brings to mind citrus-flavored candy along with lots of sweet maltiness and some notes of vanilla and oak/wood in the back. The flavor is sweet and malty through and through. The hops have faded away but left citrusy and lightly floral goodness that combine well with the caramel maltiness. Also blended into this wonderful barleywine-like flavor is some subtle vanilla and scattered notes of dry oak woodiness and hints of barrel char. There is still a touch of bitterness in the finish as well. The alcohol is nowhere to be found in the flavor, but does provide a warming effect. The body of this beer is medium-full and it is very, very smooth on the palate. The pungent hop aroma and bitter hop flavor might be gone now, but this IIPA has made a wonderful transformation into an extremely balanced and thoroughly enjoyable barleywine!

12 fl. oz. bottle (10% alc. by vol.) from illinismitty. Thanks Sean! Rating #643 for this beer...

Extremely well balenced beer. Not too hoped for a dogfish. Strong alcohol well hidden. Sweet aroma, floral. Hoppy but not bitter. sweet malt very present. I liked this, unusual for a double IPA.