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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Cave treat 2015 12 ounce bottle, poured into 2 DFH taster’s snifters. Nice little foam pops up and sinks into the deep amber and reddish haze.
Sweet raspberry aroma is nice. Kinda lambic and there’s a whiff of alcohol present.
Taste is berry fruitness with a tart follow. Again, the alcohol.,.
Mouth is fruit forward, dry, medium body and liw carbonation, undoubtedly from the aging.
Overall, a nice surprise visit from an old friend.,.

2015 poured from tap in Austin, TX. Pours an interesting orange/red with a good amount of off-white head. Nose was full of grapefruit, raspberry puree, and booze. The taste was a bit much for me. Solvent, grapefruit, cherries, citrus peel, some toffee, raspberry. Burning alcohol on the way down.

 

 

Reviewing a 10/24/15 or a 5 1/2 year old bottle here that I got on closeout sale.

Pours a murky reddish brown with a tiny head and little lacing.

Smells of booze and tart fermented sweet fruit. It is like hard cider smells.

Tastes of tart and slightly sour raspberries, plums and cherries. It is sweet with a slightly bitter and very boozy finish.

Medium heavy body with a slight prickly carbonation. Lightly syrupy mouthfeel.

This is a complex and powerful sipping brew.

 

 

Bottled 10/24/15, just about 5 years on this thing. Better days when this was bottled

So another huge, over the top DFH brew? I’m all in. But then again, I’m always all in for these guys

Pours a murky brown with tons of particulate floating about and a finger of off white head that reduces to a ring. No lacing but leaves legs

Despite 5 years of age, the raspberries still smell very fresh and jammy here. The berry notes are carried by sweet, heavy molasses and brown sugar

This thing is decadent but not overly complex in taste. To start things off, we get slight alcohol and malt with lightly tart raspberries. After the swallow, the alcohol heat comes through with fruity esters. The tartness subsides to bring just pure raspberry flavor

Medium full bodied with very mild carbonation leads this to drink like a dessert. Finishes mostly dry, just coating the mouth. Does not at all feel like 18%

This one was definitely big and rich, I was just wishing it was a little more tart. I found the fruit full fort a while back and set it down in the cellar for a special day, hopefully for an engagement or wedding. I’m glad I tried this and that I have the other variant, but maybe this wasn’t worth $10 a bottle

 

Bottle date is hard to read but I think it's from 2015ish

A: Poured into a tulip to a deep reddish brown topped by a dense finger of off white head which fades slowly to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing
S; Smells of raspberries and alcohol with a little bit of spice
T: Taste is tons of raspberries and a hint of spice. Alcohol is also apparent but builds slowly. Slight toasted malts and a hint of honey sweetness but mostly fruit on this one. On the swallow there's a lot of raspberries, alcohol, spice, and lingering hints of toasted malts.
M: This beer is fairly full bodied with a syrupy feel on the palate from all the fruit and sugars. Carbonation is slightly effervescent but it isn't over the top while the beer has a drying finish due to the high ABV.
O: Overall this beer is much better with time. Fresh the alcohol is way too hot but after some time it does mellow out well and allow all the raspberry influence to shine. Not much in the way of complexity but they set out to make the highest ABV fruit beer they could. Sort of worth a try if you want to tick it or want to try a high octane fruit beer.

 

 

 

 

Bottled 10/23/15; drank 12/6/15 @ the Yarchives.

Semi-opaque ruby red appearance.

A rough pour yielded a nice white head; decent lace.

Tart raspberry, sweet strawberry, honeyed grain & booze heat notes in the nose.

Medium thick, sticky mouthfeel.

Syrup-y raspberry & strawberry flavors up front; strong booze heat notes on the finish.

A cloying, boozy mess; not worth even trying fresh. I've tasted what a beauty this can become, but 2 months in it's a drainpour.

OMG! 10/23/15 bottling date. Raspberries dominate the nose on opening. Poured cellar temp to a tulip glass. Copper-red color with no head, some lacing. First sips are super sweet raspberry with a back-end of Belgian funk. 3.5 years did really good things to this. 3 more on the shelf. ABV nowhere to be found, but I know it’ll show up later. Slight warming. Just wow! IIRC, fresh was more heavily funk flavor with a bitterness that was not appealing. The cellaring made a huge difference. There is a fair amount of sediment which is either the raspberry purée or yeast, but the beer is so thick now that the particles stay suspended all the way through. I’ll be trying to find more old bottles, and I think I should get some of the fruit-full to cellar.