Dogfish Head Unveils Mixed Media

A la Midas Touch and Sixty One.

https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/sixty-one

 

Well if it works and keeps the bottom line in the black, why not?

 

Naw, too expensive for the winos. No way the DFH price or ABV will match Thunderbird or Cisco Strawberry.

 

I'll bite, have had good success with others in this format. Texas brewery did a black saison that spent time in cab barrels, they made no mention of grapes being used but damn that beer drank like a port. Failure of a saison but great beer.

 

Bruery has been doing beer-wine hybrids for awhile and they're actually good.

 

And Noble Rot

 

And Au Courant from like 15 years ago I think. They have been doing this kind of thing for a long time.

 

With so many uncertainties in life, it's nice to have something you can hang your hat on. You can bet your last dollar that I'll be grabbing this one as soon as I see it on the shelf, and money is no object.

 

It is nicely inevitable that fermentables will merge, share concepts, evolve, and the resultant beverages will survive if the market allows. That brewers and winemakers are so interested in this union, I predict some quality mainstream product will emerge maybe not so far down the road. Achel Extra is a wonderful Trappist beer that is vinous, tastes like great malt, and ends up being a fine beer that is nearly perfect like a fine wine. It is beer, but more.This type of beer challenges the boundaries of beer. I am all for this type of exploring, and cheers continued to DFH!

 

Last time I was in Louisiana I lucked out and found Maison Blanc by Abita, it was brewed with Sauvignon Blanc grapes, not sure the percentage, and found it quite enjoyable. I know a lot of people shudder at the thought of grape must/juice and wort being blended, but I like it and hope it continues.

 

Noble Rot was delicious...especially the oak aged version

 

Yeah, the oak-aged version really sold me on this beer-wine hybrid thing. I also had a “vintage” version of Noble Rot (forget how long it had been aged...from 2012 maybe?) on tap at the Dogfish brewery this past summer that totally blew me away.

 

I really enjoyed this a lot.

 

Midas touch was interesting. It also used saffron instead of hops if I am not mistaken. Is there really a market for such a beverage,Hello Bartles and Jaymes again.

 

Midas Touch is year-round if I'm not mistaken, so evidently there's a market for it. (I like it aged a bit rather than fresh. I haven't had Mixed Media yet, but I wasn't fond of 61 nor Siracusa Nera, their other grape beers. On the other hand, I love Lagunitas Dark Swan.)

 

I for one am looking forward to this. Sixty-One, Noble Rot, Midas Touch, and Siracusa Nera are all among the best beers Dogfish Head has made, and I expect this to be similarly good.

This isn't Bartles and Jaymes at all.

I don't get why people on a site about respecting beer show so much disrespect and disdain toward anything their narrow mindset doesn't deem "real beer."

Beer-wine hybrids aren't for everyone (I love them), but just because you don't like something doesn't make it a wine cooler/flavored malt beverage.

You can see the same hate coming from people who don't like New England hoppy beers, fruit smoothie Florida weisses, pastry stouts, and American adjunct lagers. I don't care that much for two of those categories, but I wouldn't be so arrogant and closed-minded to claim, "They're not real beer."

It's the "no-true-Scotsman" of beer.