Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2002 (23%)

Unrelentingly black. Alcoholic fumes and a cloyingly sweet chokehold on my palate. Overly sweet dried fruit notes of figs and raisons. Wine like texture with a choco-coffee base. I don’t know about this stuff...I drank most of this one...then made a 50-50 mix of 120minute IPA and the rest of my WWS in kind of a DFH black and tan. It straightened me right out!

Thank you, Torrence Liquors, for having a couple of bottles on hand! This thing pours out so black that it absorbs light. There’s no head or noticeable carbonation, just the occasional rumbling from the netherworld. The aroma is sweet dark malts, black coffee, burnt chocolate, raisins, prunes, dates.... The taste is an unsettling mixtures of the aforementioned flavors. They roil in the gut, settle down hesitantly, then quietly warm the body. The finish is a sticky, fruity, alcoholic affair. Great drink!

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Thick warm-black color with No Head. Very rich aroma’s of Baba aux Rhum, Irish Coffee, Vanilla, 100% pure black Belgian chocolate. Marsalla, PX=Pedro Xemenes, Faint Orange skinn, crème Brullée and Coffee liqeur. Taste is very sweet with nobel burned accents, it has touches a fresh vanilla, very dark coffee untherbuild with Jamesson Whisky, loads of candy sugar, Milk and black chocolate, dry fruits raisins and very sweet forrest berries. Very High alcohol is indeed well integrated in this super concentated brew.

I didn’t have this exact stout but this is the closest one. I had their 24% and wow, what a beer. Pours extremely dark, looks almost like a cola with an off-white head. The alcohol, although very present, I thought was well masked for this beer’s strength. Light syrup and malts fill your mouth and clean your throat on the way down. Expensive but worth it at $10 a bottle.

Pours pitch black with little tan head that quickly diminishes. Leaves a fair amount of lacing behind though. Moderate malty smell and a bit of light hops, smelled almost like flowers underneath the main smell. Alcohol smell noticeable but not overpowring. Flavor is moderately sweet and heavily bitter. This dies down to a light sweet moderate bitter aftertatse that lasts a little while. The initial shock of the alcohol burn diminishes rather quickly, palate is nothing special but alright kind of syrupy with some nice carbonation to it. Big overall bonus points for the ridiculous ABV% all in all a nice beer, I’d drink it again if it wasn’t so damn expensive.

WOW, might have went a bit far here. Extremely strong. Not horrible but not I did not really enjoy it. Choaked back the last bits. I would opt for the 2003.

Bought this online a few years back. Very interesting, not necessarily good, but interesting. The extreme sweetness and alchol is overpowering. Hint of coffee after my tastebuds recovered from the initial shock of this syrupy beverage. I was not able to drink an entire bottle. In a note unrelated to the actual taste of this beer, it was the most expensive 6pack ever! About $70 after adding in shipping. I finally ended up handing it out as shots at a party I had, since no one was able to drink an entire bottle! I’m giving this an above average rating just for its sheer uniqueness. I’ve never had anything else like this.

thanks to enniskillen for sharing this brew.this version of the wws gave off a body that was black in appearance,until it was held to light.then i got a bit of ruby red highlights.the aroma contained mostly alcohol,followed by a bit of coffe.the flavor starts out WAY SWEET.this is sweetest sout i have ever had.the only other flavor i could grab was beef jerkey.honestly this tastes more like a dessert wine than a stout.it even leaves gelitan lacing on the glass like a wine.i think its a bit over the top if ya ask me.