Dogfish Head Golden Era (Shower)

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: European Strong Lager
Milton, Delaware USA

Bottle from liquidsolutions.com. Smells like the malt smell that pervades the Coors plant during the tour. Pours nice and golden. Ample head, nice lacing. Flavor is a liquid rendition of the aroma. Palate is a little thick. Another crappy beer from an overrated brewer.

Poured golden rich. Small white head. Aroma was slightly spicey and sweet. Started out molasses/malty sweet with subtle floral and very little pepper. Middle and end were both malty sweet and finished slightly heavy but clean. I think some time would do this beer good. Pricey, but not bad for a lager.

Rather mild initally. Had a golden hue too it with almost no head. Some carbonation. Aroma with sweet with honey notes and floral hops, alcohol was present. Taste was sweet but not over powering. Some hops but a nice warming finsh.

Poured a clear dark gold with a medium sized off-white head. very sweet and malty. Sugary with notes of alcohol. Malty sweet flavor with a light bitterness on the finish. Pretty one dimensional it’s just a lot of malt. Medium to full bodied with a nice carbonation level.

Somewhat of a sour aroma, mostly malt. Pours a rich golden color with a white head. Very malty, lagery flavor, alcohol, with a sour aftertaste, there are a hint of hops in there somewhere.

Pours a slightly hazy golden brown, darker than a standard pilsner, but with similar head qualities. The nose is really very nice on this lager. Huge malt presence with an obvious sweetness not to mention the liberal flowery hops. This is a really smooth textured beer with the most viscosity and alcohol warming I’ve ever encountered in a lager... this really reminds me much more of a barleywine in terms of palate. Flavor is close to barleywin with the huge huge malt, though the liberal hops buts this more in line with a IIPA. Again, really big sticky sweet malt with very floral and slightly spicey hops. The alcohol bridges the two flavors rather nicely. I can’t say this is a nature feeling beer. Everything is so big. Nothing is mellow at all. The only thing that integrates the malt and hop characters is the alcohol I feel. This is probably a brew that would benefit from a little bit of age... if I see another bottle, I will probabily have to buy it.

A yellow-orange color with a small white bubbly head. Very hoppy and but not so much so that it dominates the aroma or flavour; also malty. Sweet and a little bit spicy. Smooth, full and almost creamy.

"Poured a hazy golden color with nice head and good lacing. Aroma was hops in the front followed by malts and some fruit. Flavor was good much the same very well balanced in with hops and malts, not as grassy as i expected. "