Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2002 (23%)

This is a very strong beer. Gulping is not allowed. After drinking this I forgot where I lived, and I was sitting on my living room couch at the time.

technically this is an impressive beer since it is 23% and lacks any real alcohol burn contrary to what others have said. Notes of chocolate, and heavy hints of port. Other than that not very complex. The nose is primarily of alcohol. Honestly not a beer I enjoy since it is far too sweet (probably due to the quite high abv). Lackluster head and little actual stout taste. All in all a fabulous disappointment. If you want an amazing dogfish head beer try the raison d'etre - its superb. This beer is good but far from great and way overrated

I agree with dominion - DO NOT GULP THIS BEER or you will choke on it. It has 23% abv and you can tell that as you drink it. Extremely dark and extremely powerful. One of these gave me a heavy buzz. This beer is worth trying out just to say you've had it, but it is so damn expensive at $7.89 per bottle that I probably wont go that route again.

YOU MUST SIP THIS, do not attempt to drink this like a regular beer. This is one to be savored and never forgotten. 23.04% and you can feel every bit of it

This is undoubtedly the closest beer to port wine that I've ever had. Poured like molasses and smelled kind of like fermented molasses with some roastiness thrown in. A very dark and powerful brew, but still very complex and tasty. Alcohol shines through more at the end. Take a good hour to enjoy this one.

Well what do you say about a beer that’s 23% alcohol? “Holy Cow Batman”!

As it s sets in the glass, “Dark as the inside of a Cow”, the head microscopic, the color dark chocolate, texture spumous, the lace patchy. Alcohol quite evident, bananas and pineapple, sweet, underpinned by the malt, start is sweet as eating sugar from the bowl, some malt, and the top full, finish “ZAP, ZING, WHOOF”, all alcohol with the hops present but buried under the alcohol, dry and long lasting aftertaste. More than warms the belly, sets it on fire, definitely not meant for people who aren’t into ferine, beastly, bestial, brutal beers, I love it, but only once a year.

Thanks to Trappist for sending me a couple bottles of this. First of all, do NOT gulp this beer. It is definitely a sipping beer. I literally coughed after taking a normal drink. Pours pitch black with a very thin beige head and thin lacing. Aroma is sweet with sherry or port wine qualities, along with some malt and alcohol. Flavor really packs a wallop. Sugary sweetness eventually matches stride with the strong malt, dark fruit (raisins), and alcohol flavors with which you start out. With all this, it still manages a somewhat dry and bitter finish. While this beer is complex it is still a little unbalanced, but what can you expect from a 23%ABV beer. It is probably impossible to mask such a high level. A strange but good brew. I look forward to trying the 18% version.

Bottled, thanks hopsrus!!
Black hole black. I guess this is what happens when you're talking this sort of gravity. Calvados-like aroma. Very sweet, very complex and very, very malty. Notes of prunes, pepper and molasses. I think it is not as balanced as the 18% version was.