Dugges Bollox!

Brewed by Dugges Ale & Porterbryggeri
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Mölndal, Sweden

Draught at the Rover, Gothenburg, Fullflavoured, great body, smooth and a wellbalanced bitterness, thick and creamy head and beautiful reddy complexion

Bottle, RBESG 07. Full malty base combined with a generous helping of flowery hops. A great beer. Lovely dry finish.

Draught, mackinlay’s Inn. Deep veiled copper with mysterious climbing head almost looking like a nitro muchroom. A pure darker meringue. Very rich nose displays, at its best, the Dugges malt traits that I dig immensely. Extreme fruitiness, not limited to hop aromas. The Duggest typical strawberry notes is all over, giving it a dessert feel, reddish berries abound atop of tropical notes, mostly litchee, lime, papaya.. melon.. A tartish vinous earthiness joins in to complexify this already bubble gummy, complex dessert baked in caramel sauce. Medium to thick body supports those flavors like a champion. Creamy and easy going palate. Oh yeah, did you know this was an IPA? Over the already pleasant foundations previously described, you need to add a flowery perfume emanating from this jolly snifter. Wonderful foresty hints, coniferous, sappy and most of all floral, earthy with pomegranate and blood oranges nuances. Soft support carbonation. A bloody good beer that. It reminds me of one of my favorite IPAs ever, that is the one that Stoudts used to bottle-condition in 765mL bottles. Perhaps even maltier that Dugges.. Atypical. A wonderful sipper, very close to a barley wine, but the hops are rocking in there.

Draft at the Enken. Fantastically smooth IPA offering from the Swedish masters, this beer is truly ensouled. Copious amounts of hops, but wtih a softer edger than I’ve had before, foam that art in heaven made, and overall a fullness of love of the craft that is powerfully felt in every sip. When beer reaches this level, we’re entering the realm of art and all standard descriptions of color, nose and what have you ceases to matter. This is a brew for the soul, for linking with all that which is best in man.

Draught at The Rover, Göteborg, Sweden. Amber clear color with medium but very thick, almost stout-like, head. Wonderful aroma full of floral and perfumy hops, backed up by a tropiclal fruit profile with peach and apricot. Very smooth mouthfeel. Flavour balances malt sweetness well with a massive yet not overwhelming hop bitterness.

Amber coloured, with a thick off white head. Hoppy nose with some nutty hints. Grapefrui´t and citrus in flavour with some sweetness. Good bitterness. Some notes of pine.

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich with hops, flowers and sweet malt. Good excellent long lasting bitter finish. Lasts for hours. One for the hopheads.

Draught at Glenfiddich Warehouse No. 68, Stockholm. Pours out in a reddish amber colour, topped with a huge, rocky white head. Rich and really enjoyable hop aroma of pine-needles, blood-oranges, black-currant leaves, grapefruit and wet grass. Flavour starts sweet of black currant and blood-oranges. Finishes really dry and bitter of grapefruit and pine-needles. The alcohol is totally hidden. Full and a bit sticky mouthfeel. Great IPA, bordering to an 2^¨IPA.