Chicory Stout
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Chicory StoutChicory Stout
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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:
3,386
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
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Ratings by tectactoe:
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Reviewed by tectactoe from Michigan

3.28/5  rDev -12.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pours thick and dark, black with hints of brown; quickly dissipating, tan colored head comprised of big bubbles. The aroma up front is very pleasing - "real" chocolates, deep, deep chocolate candies and cocoa beans, bittersweet. Roasted malts, of course, are abundant in their most raw form. Sweetness can be detected on the nose, as can a touch of smokiness. Surprisingly thin body, especially since the pour looked to be quite thick. Roasty up front, touch of smoked wood chips which is quickly displaced by sweet chocolate flavored malts; some cocoa beans, light coffee flavors. Quite a heavy floral hop flavor profile, which is always nice to balance things out in a stout. It might actually be a little TOO prominent near the end, but maybe I'm just being nit-picky. The smokiness comes back a bit in the aftertaste - I guess that's the "chicory", although I never would have guessed chicory of it wasn't in the name of the beer. Medium-high amount of carbonation.

Eh, this one is okay. It was good at first, but I kind of started to grow tired of it. It wasn't offering anything more as it went on, and it kind of got one-dimensional and boring. Nice hop profile, but actually kind of weak on the malt robustness I was expecting.
Dec 10, 2012
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Rated: 4 by animal69 from Louisiana

Aug 14, 2017
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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
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
 
Rated: 3.69 by jcflorian from Connecticut

Mar 22, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by Rice_Nate_25 from Ohio

Dec 19, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by BEER88 from North Carolina

Nov 21, 2016
 
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Nov 10, 2016
 
Rated: 3 by suckaj from Florida

Oct 27, 2016
Chicory Stout from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 3386 ratings