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rAvg: 3.67
pDev: 15.8%
Reviews: 1720
Hads: 1445
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Brewed by:
Dogfish Head Brewery
Delaware
,
United States
Style | ABV
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
| 8.00%
ABV
Availability:
Year-round.
bottle (1618)
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growler (4)
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nitro-bottle (1)
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nitro-tap (1)
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Notes:
A deep mahogany, Belgian-style brown ale brewed with beet sugar, raisins and Belgian-style yeast.
25 IBU
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Jason
Massachusetts
3.45
/5
rDev
-6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
This beer certainly has some chill haze problems, the head was not much better either. Smelled of rum, caramel, raisins, solvent alcohol and some other odd fruit.
The taste was the same with more of an expressive solvent alcohol that bordered on a rubbing alcohol flavour. Syrupy and slick with sweet malty and alcohol flavours, a bit softer and more palatable than in the bottle.
Not too bad, you just have to remember that it is 8.0% abv and not to suck it down like any other beer that is on-tap.
Serving type: on-tap
08-25-2002 05:11:48 |
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Todd
Massachusetts
2.9
/5
rDev
-21%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Had a big 32oz mug of this last night at Bukowski's (Boston), and wasn't that impressed. A dark beer with a decent head. Aroma was pure grape bubblegum. Flavour also had a dominant bubblegum character with burnt orange and raisin flavour kicking about.
Interesting. Glad I tried it. However, I won't be ordering it again.
Serving type: on-tap
04-07-2002 06:31:58 |
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Poured from a bottle into a New Glarus proprietary tasting glass. Bottled 7/20/2012.
A: Brown with copper hues, no haze. One finger tan head, no lacing. Let's say 18 degrees SRM.
S: Sweet molasses, brown sugar, dark fruit - mostly raisons. Grape, maybe? For 8% ABV no alcohol detected.
T: Dark fruit, brown sugar, prune/raisin. Sweet and malty with no hops detected - in true fashion for this style.
M: Full, thick body. Not as much carbonation as I am used to with this the few examples I have had in this style. However, I enjoy the lack of ‘over carbonation'.
O: An excellent beer. I haven't had a bad Belgian Strong Dark yet, and this one is arguably my favorite.
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