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Ancient Ale
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
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- From:
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- Delaware, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 14.29%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 08, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 28, 2012
- Wants:
- 14
- Gots:
- 18
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Reviewed by NedFredHead from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours kinda cloudy with hardly any head. This is a pretty complex taste. Moves from mead right into grape, which came through suprisingly well. Not nearly as acrid as I would expect from a 9%. Would drink again if it were more available.
Nov 18, 2018Reviewed by Lorgeous from Minnesota
4.15/5 rDev +9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours a dull copper. Smells of mead and champagne. Something I've never smelt before in a beer it's very interesting. If you thought the smell was interesting so is the taste. I taste champagne, wine, mead, and a cider ale. Goes down about as easy as a 9% beer could.
= A big surprise here. I had no idea what this would taste like hence why I tried it. A unique flavor that blends well together and goes down just as easy. If this is the beer people drank 2000 years ago send me back in time...
May 16, 2017= A big surprise here. I had no idea what this would taste like hence why I tried it. A unique flavor that blends well together and goes down just as easy. If this is the beer people drank 2000 years ago send me back in time...
Rated by Jelectric99 from Florida
4.62/5 rDev +22.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.62/5 rDev +22.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
A different one and done, leaves you guessing. Well done!
May 19, 2016Rated by MikeDL from New York
4.68/5 rDev +23.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.68/5 rDev +23.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
great beer, different style then most beers but it is delicious
Jul 07, 2015Reviewed by surfcaster from North Carolina
4/5 rDev +5.8%
4/5 rDev +5.8%
Complete and total surprise on tap.
Pours slightly cloudy amber with very little head.
Tine bit on the funky side--almost trying to get to a sour with the mouth feel without the most of the acid. Esthers come through--pear and dried fruits. Had a little essence of homemade wine. Alcohol completely hidden
I think this one nails it. Really worth a shot --unique. Tasted like very little made today
Oct 28, 2014Pours slightly cloudy amber with very little head.
Tine bit on the funky side--almost trying to get to a sour with the mouth feel without the most of the acid. Esthers come through--pear and dried fruits. Had a little essence of homemade wine. Alcohol completely hidden
I think this one nails it. Really worth a shot --unique. Tasted like very little made today
Ancient Ale from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
50 ratings
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