Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2002 (23%)

Formerly brewed at Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Milton, Delaware USA

Name: World Wide Stout
Date: May 10, 2003
Mode: Bottle
Source: Whole Foods Market, DC
Vintage: 2002
Appearance: black, thin tan head
Aroma: rich fruity sherry-like aroma
Flavor: amazing rich malt flavor, lots of fruity vineous character, good of alcohol that is strong but not fumey, sweet and creamy like an imperial milk stout, no roasted or chocolate malts in the forefrount, beyond a stout, at the end it becomes all sherry

Name: World Wide Stout
Date: February 09, 2005
Vintage: 2002
no change

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Score: ***4

The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

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.

(draught !) Jet-black, slim brown head. Roasted, grilled bacon, BBQ and soy sauce for a nose. Impossible to write or explain, but you can both SMELL sweet and bitter. This is a quite sweet stout tastewise. Saying it's a very strong one is as forcing open doors, but that's the problem. It's got a rosewater flavour, so sweet it's made lopsided. Still a superb beer, but I prefer the 18%. Mouthfeel: well. Liquified coffee-flavoured pudding with a dash of soy sauce. How DOES that feel? OK - there's alcoholburn. Huge.

Chocolate liqour aroma, insanely dense appearance, thin tan head, woahh... that first sip was intense, wow, the 23% really comes across, thick mouthfeel complete with an alcohol burn, the kind that warms your throat like whiskey, surprising amount of carbonation, smooth and syrupy, sweet chocolate, kind of like irish coffee in beer form, this is good for sure, but the alcohol kind of distracts from the stout... so whats goin on with that black line over the label? That's pretty sketch huh?

Black, no foam. Big extreme aroma of tar, port, cognac, plums, raisin, paint and whiskey. Thick and warming flavour of raisin, cognac, espresso and plums. Long oily aftertaste of espresso, port and whiskey. Extreme. Prefer the 2003 version, though.

Better than I thought it would be for such a strong beer. Kind of like a barleywine/stout mix. Rather sweet, but with a bit of coffee as well. More drinkable then you might expect.

Definetly a sipping beer. Very dark with almost no head. A chocolate and coffe aroma. Strong alcohol flavor, good beer to try once.

initital taste phenomenal but as soon as you swallow its like a kick to the face like a shot every sip. but hey what do you expect its 23% percent alcohol