Liquor De Malt - Dogfish Head Brewery

Scoats

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

After a visit to the brewery (man it's impressive but that's another story), a buddy and I scored one each.

We drank them on the beach later that night (we were bad boys ignoring the no alcohol sign! woo hoo 40 ounces of rebellion!). Sam recommended same day drinking due to seal issues. They were planning to rebottle all of it (though I wonder if they will have the time to get around to doing that). Sam was dissatisfied with the level of carboniation but the ones we had definitely were not flat, not particurally active, but not defintely flat.

The beer is highly drinkable, very smooth with a Yuengling Lager-like corny sweatness with no discernable high-alcohol taste. Other than that it didn't really register for me in any particular way. This may be because I drank it straight from the bottle (it's a 40!), not really a way to get subtlties from a beer. Anyway it is a nice novelty, highly drinkable and 100% fun. Perfect for drinking on the beach at 3am with your best friend yakking about women and other dude stuff.

Serving type: bottle

06-24-2004 12:48:04 | More by Scoats

WVbeergeek

Ohio

3.33/5  rDev -8.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

Got to sample at the Penn Brewfest, but I also bought a bottle to take home. I don't understand why they are using these plastic twist off caps on the forties that can't hold air, on the way home we lost some carbonation drank it later that night and noticed some difference compared to the earlier samples I had at the fest. Honey amber gold tone at the fest a white frothy head formed but dwindled rather quickly leave thin lacing around the sample glass. Aromatics grainy sweetness and alcohol with a mild dose of corn somewhat husky but not wretched smelling, actually smells nice with the strong sweetness and alcohol. Taste consists of a sugary malt and adjunct deriven flavor with alcohol eivdent pretty clean and very stomachable especially compared to most forties. Mouthfeel was light to medium mildy sticky with a soft syrup texture. Drinkability, yeah you could get folded off a couple of these they are easy to drink and pretty tasty, not worth all of the hype but it's awesome to see a micro brew a forty.

Serving type: bottle

06-07-2004 18:04:32 | More by WVbeergeek

HappyHourHero

Indiana

3.15/5  rDev -13.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Bright white head faded fast. Strong sweet corn aroma with a pinch of alcohol. Mildy sweet, slightly bitter corn flavor. Mellow mouthfeel, easy drinking. Damn screw top didn't hold, I heard it hissing a couple times on the way home from DFH, and then I stuck it in a cooler for the long haul up to NY and a quarter of it leaked into the cooler, what shit. The lack of carbonation didn't seem to effect the drinkability though, plenty of kick for this sweet malt liquor.

Serving type: bottle

06-02-2004 03:33:50 | More by HappyHourHero

mschofield

Massachusetts

3.2/5  rDev -12.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

From the AOBF:
Pours a pale orange-gold, thin bit of a white head. Well carbonated.
Sweet aroma, corn and apple.
The taste is corn and pale malt.
Medium bodied, crisp and smooth. Great as a malt liquor - it's not a complicated beer but it won't make you ill or have to be served at 20 degrees to be palatable.

Serving type: bottle

05-21-2004 15:40:59 | More by mschofield

konabrewer

Massachusetts

3.08/5  rDev -15.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

I guess I'll be the first...
Allen from DFH brought me a sample at my booth at the AoBF
Thanks for the glug bud...

I like corn so this will be easy.
The beer was bright but with little to no head. However, had plently of carbonation
A nice bouquet of corn and hust with a hint of earthy hop aroma
The taste was of malt and a hint of corn, no over powering
Quite enjoyable for a higher alcohol malt liquor
The carbonation was perfect or the style. uggg
the beer was quite drinkable and left me thinking that these guys are brilliant to do this as a hoot.

This is a great gift idea to any unsuspecting beer lover or future beer lover. Quite a novel approach to craft beer

Serving type: bottle

05-14-2004 13:11:03 | More by konabrewer