Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale

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

pours dark brown with a hint of ruby, thick tan head that leaves some nice lacing. smells of chocolate, brown sugar, and dark fruit. taste is mostly chocolate with noticeable alcohol. nice balanced finish with more chocolate, raisins, and a flourish of hops.

bottle. LOVE THIS STUFF. it smells great and tastes even better. you can smell the hops and taste them but it’s very smooth and little to no after taste. nice redish brown color. very small head. brown sugar ,malt ,a bit of chocolate a put in to one little bottle!

Poured brown with a tan head. Aroma of chocolate and nuts. Sweet malt flavor to start with some chocolate. Finished with a slight alcohol burn. Not bad.

Brown sugar reigns in the taste with a hint of hops to remind you that it is a beer. When craving an Indian brown ale, this one is a above average choice

Bottle. Pours a dark brown and almost porter like in color. No head and no lacing. Aroma of raisins, toffee, chocolate and mild coffee. The taste is similar with malt dominating the flavor. I sense very little hops in this beer. I think the low carbonation of this beer poses a problem for the overall taste experience. A beer that I was expecting much more from.

Aroma: brown sugar & malt w/ a bit of anise and chocolate with a tinge raisiny wood and alcohol. Needs more hops in the aroma. Taste shows more bitterness mixed w/ darker malt bringing me back to Stone 11th Anniversary, although the similarities end there. Mouthfeel is smooth but slightly too thin. Seems pretty good when spliced up, but as a whole it fails to satiate me.

It pours a dark brown color with a small creamy head. The aroma’s a bit dull with some dark malts and not much hops. The taste is coffee and chocolates, but I’m not really finding much of a hops presence which is disappointing. It’s not very bitter, but that’s not particularly good here, as the hops don’t seem to balance the malts. It is pleasantly smooth though.

The aroma leaves a bit to be desired with notes of stale hops and dark malt. The beer looks decent with a dark brown color and almost non-existent head. The taste is burnt molasses, dark chocolate, coffee, with a noticeable, but not too prounouced gingery hop character. Pretty smooth as well. Decent overall.