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Poppaskull
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- From:
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- Delaware, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Pale Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 16.01%
- Reviews:
- 166
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 17, 2022
- Added:
- Nov 17, 2010
- Wants:
- 74
- Gots:
- 102
This time around we brewed at our brewery in Milton, DE and made a deep, golden ale spiced with cardamom and fermented using a robust Belgian yeast strain. One third of the volume was then aged for 6 months in oak brandy barrels. Spice, esters, and sweet brandy dominate the aroma. A robust 10% abv is rounded by caramel and vanilla notes from the wood with a slight spiciness coming from the yeast.
20 IBU
20 IBU
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Ratings by davey101:
Reviewed by davey101 from Connecticut
3.88/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
750ml bottle into a DFH signature glass. Bottled in 2010E. Thanks so much HopsMatt!
A - Pours a crystal clear golden amber color with rising carbonation. Two fingers of soapy off white foam forms. Leaves behind a nice thick edging and a thin cap. Swirling creates a new beautiful cap and sticky lacing coats the walls of the glass.
S - Starts off very herbal and floral. This fades into some ginger, coriander, lemon peel, and caramel biscuits . Very spicy with just a touch of sweetness. An odd aroma on the finish that is a bit offensive. Complex and interesting.
T - Cardamon, Belgian yeast, banana, cloves, and spice. Lingering ginger flavor. Can't say I detect any brandy notes, but the alcohol sure does warm things up on the finish. Very tasty.
M - Medium bodied and well carbonated. The finish is somewhat dry and prickly which works well with the ginger. Comes off like a Belgian inspired ginger ale.
O - A lovely beer that I honestly wasn't expecting too much from. Its held up very well to the age, although I can only see it going downhill from here. I've had the FFF Popskull in the past and I remember liking that one. Curious how that one has held up.
Dec 11, 2012A - Pours a crystal clear golden amber color with rising carbonation. Two fingers of soapy off white foam forms. Leaves behind a nice thick edging and a thin cap. Swirling creates a new beautiful cap and sticky lacing coats the walls of the glass.
S - Starts off very herbal and floral. This fades into some ginger, coriander, lemon peel, and caramel biscuits . Very spicy with just a touch of sweetness. An odd aroma on the finish that is a bit offensive. Complex and interesting.
T - Cardamon, Belgian yeast, banana, cloves, and spice. Lingering ginger flavor. Can't say I detect any brandy notes, but the alcohol sure does warm things up on the finish. Very tasty.
M - Medium bodied and well carbonated. The finish is somewhat dry and prickly which works well with the ginger. Comes off like a Belgian inspired ginger ale.
O - A lovely beer that I honestly wasn't expecting too much from. Its held up very well to the age, although I can only see it going downhill from here. I've had the FFF Popskull in the past and I remember liking that one. Curious how that one has held up.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona
3.52/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
From 750ml bottle it pors a slight hazed light golden color . Smell is spice yeast malt and citrus . Taste was herbal and woody with lemondrop ,cardamom citrus and very slight Belgian funk. Mouth feel was herbal light not funky ends with cardomen.
Sep 17, 2022Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
2.89/5 rDev -24.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.89/5 rDev -24.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Pours a dark gold out of an expensive 750ml bottle. Nobody would want 6 bottles of this, so they make it in this format. And charge you more for it.
Aroma dropped the shitty cardamom as promised. Belgian yeast. Lemony hops. Alcohol.
Taste dropped a substantial wood quotient, along with big alcohol heat, can't make out the kind of tree this wood came from, it seems to be obscure and therefore more cool in the eyes of nerds.
Cardamom just really ruins this beer for me, it is such a bomb. Not to mention that it drinks hot. Definitely would not bang again.
Apr 24, 2016Aroma dropped the shitty cardamom as promised. Belgian yeast. Lemony hops. Alcohol.
Taste dropped a substantial wood quotient, along with big alcohol heat, can't make out the kind of tree this wood came from, it seems to be obscure and therefore more cool in the eyes of nerds.
Cardamom just really ruins this beer for me, it is such a bomb. Not to mention that it drinks hot. Definitely would not bang again.
Poppaskull from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
320 ratings
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