Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2002 (23%)

This is very impressive! The alcohol is so well hidden, it is almost unbelieveable. Lots of sweet caramel and malty notes in the aroma. Burned caramel and roasted malt in the start and middle, with a delicious toffee-like finish combined with burned toast and brown sugar. Very smooth and soft. Brown sugar and burned caramel in the palate. This a very delicious brew!

Had this bottle since it came out and thought it needed some aging. Finally, I got around to trying it: Pours a very dark brown with very little light tan head. Mildly complex aroma with some dark fruits, roasted and caramel malts floating on alcohol. Body is very sugary sweet with little to no noticeable hop presence. This definitely lacks the complexity of the 18%. Very one-sided with a ton of malt sugars and no balance. Hides its alcohol pretty well, but is sort of a let down.

Aroma of coffee hops and yeast.Expresso appearance with quick brown head.Thick warming mouthfeel with tingly carbonation.Hoppy yeasty port brandy flavors with sweet molasses toffee vanilla chocolate and coffee.Sweet yeasty malt finish.

This was my bottle of beer for New Years Eve 2003. Very sweet molasses flavor that dominated the entire pint. You could tell the alcohol was there but it wasn't overpowering.

Deep black with almost no head. Warm sweet malt and alcohol aromas. Full bodied, feels more like a port than a beer. Sweet malt with raisins. A bit like Raison D'Etre but with a lot more oomph.

Well I must admit for the ten dollars I paid for a 12 ounce bottle of this I was not impressed. Yes it is strong and it does have it good qualities but it would not be a repurchase at half the price. The aroma of this beer was strong and seemed to be a mixture of malt and soy sauce. I was somewhat tatken back by this and asked another to smell this as well. Their take was soy sauce or Woosteshire. Hmmmmm first beer to be described that way. All in all thought the aromas was big and not unplesant. The color was black with little to no head. Flavor was very sweet (whcih I find somewhat objectionalble) but complex. The beer was like drinking a port wine. As such if this is used as an after dinner drink in small quantities it would be ok. I did not thing this was partriculary balanced as little hopps made their presense known. An interesting beer but flawed.

This beer is ridiculous. I believe this is the highest ABV I have ever touched from a beer. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, lots of alcohol and notes of cardboard. Flavor was very full, almost makes me wince. Lots of honey, alcohol, brandy, and chocolate. This beer is large, 46 proof!?!?!? Almost too much, a very good beer though.

'bout freakin' time. Bottle. What's with this stuff marked out? Did we get a defective batch that was brewed without vim nor vigor? If this is the case, it doesn't show in the brew. Yow! "Alcoholic chocolate" are our buzzwords here. It makes me think of this box of chocolate liquers that I got from a vendor as a Christmas present last year. They were pretty crappy and I only consumed like 4 of them, but if they had been filled with fine brandy and coated with the best of Belgian chocolate instead of whatever crap the vendor picked up in the duty-free shop in the airport...that's what it would have tasted like and I'd have been plus 10,000 calories last year. Fine sherry, brandy in the aroma which follows beautifully into the flavor. Tame but clever mouthfeel with a GREAT finish. I like this a lot more than the 18% 2001 version, but part of it might be that I was less experienced then. But from now on, when the "most overrated beer" thread that seems to come up every 3 months happens, I won't mention DFH WWS anymore.