Dogfish Head Chicory Stout

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Stout
Milton, Delaware USA

Pours nearly black with a thin head. Aroma of roasted malts and bitter coffee. Similar flavor - lots of strong coffee without being overpowering. I found the palate to be a little lighter than I was expecting, but still very drinkable. I would definitely reach for this beer again if given the chance.

Bottle from Total Wine in Ft. Myers. Such an odd beer experience, but I guess that’s to be expected with DFH brews! Pours like you’d expect a stout to pour, black with a motor oil consistency and a quickly-thinning pillowy tan head that left nothing in the way of lace. Smells like mexican coffee (from the chicory) and little else. Flavor is dominated by the chicory (which tastes just like coffee) and licorice. My amateur palate has no idea what St. John’s Wort tastes like, so I definitely couldn’t pick it out. Medium-weight with an intriguing finish. Not a beer I’d pay that much for to try again, but worth a shot once!

Draft @ Monster B’s. Like most good stouts, this beer had a wonderful marshmellowy soft white head. The added ingredients in this beer are too unnoticeable to differentiate this beer from the pack. Solid, but unspectacular; and when I drink Dogfish Head, I expect spectacular.

Draft: Poured a dark reddish brown and no head. The aroma was coffee, chicory, and toasted nuts. The flavor was roasted coffee, nuts, and birch. Overall, an easy drinking stout I’d definitely drink again.

Pours a deep black with hints of ruby on the edge of the glass as the light hits. The beer has a nice head and keeps good lace. The aroma is coffee with some toasty notes, simple but appetizing. The flavor is bitter coffee, some burnt toast and some dark chocolate, once again simple but delicious.

Pours black with no head. Coffee aroma and flavor. Light body and thin mouth feel. Pretty solid

Pour from the 12oz. bottle into a glass: Aroma is of pure bark. Tastes of chicory (never tasted chicory before but ok I cheated and looked at the description...is it a legume? What the hell is a legume?), bark, roasted dry coffee beans, spices, malts, and toasted mother earth throughout. Drinkability: yeah- it’s different, like a burnt stout. Rebuy: with all Dogfish Heads, my answer is always yes. It’s the most consistent brewery I know. #104 on 31082009, DG.