Raison D'Extra - Dogfish Head Brewery

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740 Ratings

rAvg: 3.97
pDev: 16.12%
Reviews: 569
Hads: 171

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Brewed by:
Dogfish Head Brewery

Delaware, United States

Style | ABV
Belgian Strong Dark Ale | 18.00% ABV

Availability: Rotating. bottle (554), on-tap (14), nitro-tap (1).

Notes:
This beer is retired; no longer brewed.

A bigger, bolder version of our Raison Raison D'Être.

This is a bulbous, brown ale brewed with a bunch of malt, brown sugar and raisins.

40 IBU

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Reviews by flagmantho:

flagmantho

Washington

3.43/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5

Poured from 12 oz bottle into a tulip.

Appearance: cloudy ruby color with almost no head at all. Looks a lot like an old ale.

Smell: very sweet and, appropriately, raisiney. The raisins are accompanied by apple and pear aromas as well. Hops are nonexistent.

Taste: raisins, sweet malt and alcohol. It is rather cloying and intense. This bursts the needles of the both the sweetometer and the alcolimeter. It's good but ... just too much.

Mouthfeel: body is medium but the liquid is rather syrupy and does a good job at coating the mouth. Well, it's a good job if you like alcohol and raisins.

Drinkability: good, in its way, but it will be hard to finish.

Serving type: bottle

10-04-2009 23:51:42 | More by flagmantho

More User Reviews:

smithj4

New York

4.5/5 rDev +13.4%

05-19-2013 02:45:33 | More by smithj4

dbrauneis

New Jersey

4.01/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

A: Pours a hazy dark reddish brown in color with minimal amounts of visible carbonation and some garnet red highlights. The beer has a minimal amount of light beige head that quickly reduces to a very thin ring at the edges of the glass. Minimal amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate to strong aromas of dark fruits (raisins, prunes, and plums) and candi sugar.

T: Overall this beer is pretty sweet, with moderate to strong flavors of dark fruit malt sweetness with raisin, prune, and plum all making a strong presence. There is a strong presence of candi sugar as well which contributes to the overall sweetness.

M: Full bodied with light amounts of carbonation. Syrupy with light amounts of alcohol warming.

O: It is a shame that DFH stopped making this beer and continues to make the Raison D'Etre (the watered down version of this beer) - I would love to see DFH pull this one out once every 3-5 years as it is so much better. Nice amounts of complexity but it is not the easiest beer to drink as the alcohol is not as well hidden as would appeal to the masses.

Serving type: bottle

05-19-2013 02:44:56 | More by dbrauneis