120 Minute IPA - Dogfish Head Brewery

gueuzeonhigh

Maine

2.85/5  rDev -29.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

Dogfish Head 120 minute IPA

This beer billed as an IPA is but a shallow IPA. It seems to me as if DFH put all their effort into creating a beer with 20% ABV rather than the IPA art. The IPA parts seemed as if it was just a vehicle for transporting the 20% ABV.

The beer poured with a dark amber color.
A short frothy head appeared only to collapse back from whence it came a few minutes later.

The nose was a scant hoppy, malty wisp.

The flavor was surprisingly non alcohol centered. But still considering that the bottle label said “IPA”- it’s but a scant IPA. There bittering units of Hops were there, commingled in a deadly embrace of a strong note of sweet malt. Some notes of caramel and other sweet related permutations of malt were there, but considering the IPA paradigm, the flavors seemed out of place.

The alcohol was not center stage, but none the less could not be ignored, especially 10 minutes after half the bottle went down my gullet.

Finally, I have to consider the 10 bucks a bottle.

Was lots of fun to try to satiate my curiosity, but will this brew become a regular in my cellar or my tasting cabinet? Not likely.

Serving type: bottle

05-27-2004 00:37:21 | More by gueuzeonhigh

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