Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu

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

Cloudy, dirty yellow. Nose full of grapes and light fruit, flavor has hints of sweet white wine, good tartness, some lemon. Different.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden with a small short lived white head that leaves no lacing. Aroma of sweet muscat grapes, malt, and honey. Taste is the same as aroma with a hint of sweet tarts. Medium mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness. A little weird but good.

Thanks to Sombeast for opening this! Poured lightly hazy medium apple juice yellow with a short cap of white head. The aroma picked up sweet apple and white grape juices, some grape meat, phenols, some berries, and honey.. really odd assortment of smells, but I rather enjoyed it. The flavor was a bit messy.. there was an odd sweet/sour contrast throughout the drink (grape juice, honey, and herbal notes on the sweeter side and floral bitters, grape skins, pineapple, and boozy notes in the sharp department).. also sharp on the finish. Medium-ish bodied with a long finish.. transitions weren’t very good. Interesting brew.

Cloudy orange with good, creamy white head / Champagne-like nose of white grapes and stone fruit / Medium body with fine, delicate carbonation and crisp finish / Flavors of white grapes, apples, malt, and hawthorn fruit (?), with moderately sweet honeyed finish / If you’re drinking beer, but really want wine, here it is. Loosely comparable to a muscat wine.

Thanks Jason. The beer pours to a murky pine/straw colored body with some white chunks floating in it. A thin wispy white head. The aroma is fruity, honey, honeysuckle, light white grape juice. The flavors are soft and rounded. Buttery malts, light white grape juice, honey and something I’ve never tasted before that I can only assume is hawthorn fruit. The palate is soft, light, and sweet.

Pours a thickly clouded gold that gives a small amount of white head off a very aggressive pour. Nose is like sugar, fruit, mild honey, and grapes. Flavor is really odd and unique. Sweet. Tangy. Definite muscat grapes there. Heavily influence a lot of the flavor and feel. Speaking of feel. It is thick with a syrupy attribute. Falls off on the edge and leaves a wateryending feel but with a somewhat lasting syrup edge on the tongue. Definitely drinkable. Might be a bit too unique for a few, but overall definitely worth taking a shot at.

Smell is fruity (grape slightly passion fruitlike). Taste is hard to determine. The combonation of flavors does not smell to work well together.

Bouteille de 750 ml dégustée en compagnie de Dmac621, Dickinsonbeer, Cathschlag, MartinT, Beerbuzzmontreal et Glouglouburp. Arôme: Odeur de malt et de miel. Apparence: La couleur est orange voilée. Présence d’une très fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes et d’épices avec une pointe de poire. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement onctueuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence de banane en arrière goût (?). (Rating #1247)