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Chicory Stout
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- From:
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- Delaware, United States
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 13.14%
- Reviews:
- 1,378
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 03, 2020
- Added:
- Aug 06, 2001
- Wants:
- 131
- Gots:
- 311
Chicory was one of the first beers we started brewing at our pub back when it opened in 1995. It's a dark beer made with a bunch of roasted chicory, organic Mexican coffee, St. John's Wort and licorice root. We use whole-leaf Cascade and Fuggle hops, as well as pale, roasted and oatmeal grains.
21 IBU
21 IBU
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Ratings by LieutenantWort:
Reviewed by LieutenantWort from Washington
3.95/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Served from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass. The beer is very dark -- a few shades south of caramel, on the way to chocolate -- but not thick. The bottle says "a bone-white head," but my pour has a very thin, khaki head that really only shows at the edges of the glass. Very little lacing.
The main notes on the nose are "roasted," as in both coffee and charred oak. A little bit of raisin and dark fruit at the back, but the more whiffs I take the more the coffee dominates.
Taste follows pretty much the same -- very bold dark coffee flavor with a hint of bitterness. There's some complexity that I can't quite put my finger on... maybe that's chicory? (I don't know what chicory tastes like.) The roasted/smoky notes are definitely there, and enjoyable.
The beer is a little on the thin side with very subtle carbonation. I didn't find it a drawback, but it's not quite a strength either.
Overall a very nice brew, and I wish I had a second to follow it and continue to tease out the individual components of that smoked wood flavor.
Apr 16, 2009The main notes on the nose are "roasted," as in both coffee and charred oak. A little bit of raisin and dark fruit at the back, but the more whiffs I take the more the coffee dominates.
Taste follows pretty much the same -- very bold dark coffee flavor with a hint of bitterness. There's some complexity that I can't quite put my finger on... maybe that's chicory? (I don't know what chicory tastes like.) The roasted/smoky notes are definitely there, and enjoyable.
The beer is a little on the thin side with very subtle carbonation. I didn't find it a drawback, but it's not quite a strength either.
Overall a very nice brew, and I wish I had a second to follow it and continue to tease out the individual components of that smoked wood flavor.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.24/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
The appearance was always a ruddy orange to brown color with a decent one finger white foamy head that dies within about a minute and left some nice foamy sticky lacing. The way it clings and how it seemed like an eternity before it actually started to even want to start to slide was beyond me - if anything I love the stubbornness of the lacing to stay where it is. The aroma - wow what didn’t thing have in it. There was a nice okay licorice showcasing a nice roasty coffee - like smell that seemed to be increasing in strength as it warms. The taste took all that I previously mentioned and smoothed things out eloquently with a nice touch of vanilla. On the palate, this one sits about a medium to heavy on the body when it’s fresh. I’ve noticed with some age with this, it does end up thinning out a bit. Overall, what an absolutely awesome American Stout
Jun 23, 2017
Chicory Stout from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
3386 ratings
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