Black Tag
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

 

poured from 16 oz can

black in color, with tan colored head. cocoa and a little dark fruit in the aroma. similar taste, with a drier finish. Full bodied.

On cask at Dogfish Head Brewings and Eats in Rehoboth Beach, DE.

This one pours a very dark black, with a fluffy and thick white head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like rich dark chocolate, cocoa powder, roasted malt, and coffee.

There’s really not much coconut here – I wonder if the cask flattened that flavor out. Nonetheless, this is a super chocolatey and velvety stout, and I feel the delivery on cask really accentuated the lush body of this. It’s super chocolate forward in a bittersweet and well balanced way, with some nice roast, and just a hint of dark fruit and coffee.

This is thick, but not ridiculously so. It’s surprisingly big bodied for something on cask – sometimes that process really flattens out the body of beers, in my experience.

This is really delicious, despite the relative absence of one of the major ingredients.

 

 

Had at the Dogfish Head pub. Described as brewed with copious amounts of dark grains, toasted coconut, dehydrated coconut powder and Tanzanian cocoa powder. I was looking forward to this one but it did not meet my expectations. There was cocoa but not, if any, coconut presence. The beer was a little thin and boozy. I mean boozy, maybe a lot of higher alcohols but not pleasant drinking. There are plenty of boozy beers where the flavor hide the booze or the flavor enhances the warming nature of the booze. This beer did neither. In my mind, this needs further development.