Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2002 (23%)

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

Maybe it was a mistake to save this for the last beer of a rating night with friends. Maybe it was a mistake of downing my glass within 5 minutes (after TogBean dumped her third of this beer into my glass). Ok, so i was kinda toasted to begin with by the time i even got to this one, but i managed to take some notes..."sweet moleasses...heh, mole asses, hahahaha; almonds, burning like burbon". maybe it was a mistake to try and take notes while i was already loopy. i dunno. what i do remember of this beer before it sent me to bed was that it was yummy. damn yummy. i remember wanting more when it was gone. i remember staring up at the stars thinking, "hey, that star is moving! that's a satellite!" and then realizing that it was my perception of things that was moving, not the objects themselves. anyways, despite the big kick in this one, it's very tasty. i'd have it more often if it weren't almost $10 a bottle.

This reminded me most of a fine liquer. A Kahlua or something like that. Probably mainly because it is the same ABV. Did not really feel that alcohol was as omnipresent as others did. Dark, less thick than expecting, no head. Bourbon notes, chocolate and delicious sweetness follows. Shared with a whole posse of cowboys. All enjoyed the beer. I particularly thought it was better than the 18%. Maybe the 4 years of aging did something to it. It was quite the powerful brew. After a slew of bitter IPAs, this beer provided the malty sweetness to balance them all.

I was excited to find the 2002 release at Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido. For $8 a 12oz bottle, I got all that I expected and more. Aroma of brown sugar, caramel and heavy alcohol. It pours fantastic with a black opaque body and a thick one inch mocha head. Unfortuantely, the head dissipated quite quickly but the lacing was outstanding. Great body in the taste, sweet, and a helluva bite. I enjoy this stout immensly and I am a stout and barleywine kinda guy. This is like the best of both worlds. A great purchase and highly recommended. I matched this with the Dogfish Chicory stout and this absolutly punished the Chickory. Apples and oranges but still leaps and bounds above many sweet imperial stouts.

Remain seated for thsi ride (23%)! Poured black and thick with no head. Flavor was delicious and complex, not your typical Stout.

Elegant and impressive. Almost as close to perfect as you can get in my opinion with the ’04 vintage even closer to perfect. Thick, smooth and sweet with no head, this one is warming all the way down and beyond. Bourbon and vanilla with some molasses and coffee both in the nose and on the tongue. God I love this and at $12/12ozs I should!

black and nearly headless. sweet aroma of port , sherry and a little alcohol( but very understated for 23%). rich fruity taste, lots of dates, figs, anise, cardamon, coffee and chocolate traces of fennel, carrawy,mustard seed. flavors blossom as the beer warms. mellows in to a sweet tasty haze with a rumm finish. great desert beverage with a nice warming effect.

A fine stout. Sweet and lacing bitterness but a fine desert beer if you ask me

HOLY SHIT! Drink this in moderation, one is enough, consume more than that and you could end up on your duff! Very sweet and alcohol is very apparent. Like a port, burntish caramel flavor with a bitter sweet and alcohol after taste. A small almost non-apparent fizzy head that vanishes as quickly as it came. Semi-chocolatey and full body, dark brown to jet black body looking somewhat like motor-oil, this stuff is good!