Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: American Strong Ale
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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The 120 is really interesting, but you have to put it in it’s place. I don’t even like to drink a full bottle of one of these-- to me, it’s more than enough flavor and strength to share with 1-2 friends in small snifters. The general skunkiness, incredibly heavy, weighty feel, and the almost never ending hop montage is amazing. . . but every time I open I bottle, I find myself drinking it just too slowly for it to really be great beer. So, great experiment, great example, great experience. . . maybe not great beer to actually sit and drink.

A - Pours a super hazy golden-orange color with a finger of frothy off-white head. The head fades down at a normal pace leaving behind some lace. S - Aroma full of tropical and pine hops with lots of grapefruit, orange, citrus, and grassy aromas. There is also some sweet caramel malts, residual sugar, and booze. T - Starts off with lots of tropical hop flavors with grapefruit, mango, orange, and some bitterness, alongside some sweet caramel malts. Through the middle, lots of piney and grassy hops come through with strong bitterness with some sweet residual sugar and some booze. The finish is full of tropical and grassy hops, some floral hops, some good bitterness, sweet malts, and booze. M - Full bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth and resiny with a warming, bitter, and dry finish. D - Very drinkable. Huge hop flavor and strong booze, but the body is able to hold it all and the overall beer feels well put together.

2008 bottle pours a hazy amber red with a paperthin head into my bruery tulip. Aroma of alcohol vanilla, bananas, and cherries. Taste follows nose but the alcohol isnt as present. Smoother than i expected, not a bad beer, i was expecting it to taste like an american barleywine but this is much better than any other barleywine i have ever had. very good

I’ve had this quite a few times just to make sure I wasn’t getting bad bottles. This is just a bad beer overall, and does not even hold a candle to it’s sister, WWS. This is overly sugary, syrupy, sweet sticky alcohol juice with a nasty nail polish remover note. Yuck. Fuck this tripe.

Tap. Pretty apricot-golden with big white foamy head and decent lacing. I get perfume, grapefruit, pine, and malt. First impression is that it’s very boozy. Liqueur like sweetness followed by hot goodness. Thick bodied but not quite syrupy. still manages a dry hop finish. Very warming. A year ago I probably would have rated this higher, but I find I’m liking crisper lighter beers more these days. Still yummy though.

Had one of these bad boys in storage, decided to crack it open. Poured into DFH ale glass, clear orange with little head. Aroma is strong pine, citrus, hops galore, boozy and sweetness. Taste is heavy, little sips will go a long way. Long aftertaste, very enjoyable.

Pours copper and orange with a small head. Nose is buttery, caramel, light pine and alcohol notes. Taste is sweet with well rounded bitter that takes over for the finish. Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy yet sharp. Heavy body with a big long aftertaste. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours light copper with almost no head. Smell is boozy sweet, lots of rotting tropical fruit, melon and alcohol. Taste has the alcohol burn, bit hoppy, melon, mango, syrupy texture. Interesting at least.

Clear orange with miniscule off white head. Aroma is more malty and caramel than anything else but complicated with some candied citrus and dark maple and some hops. Full bodied and syrupy, bit of carbonation, obviously some alcohol but that is not overwhelming. Flavor is intensely but not unpleasantly sweet, orange fruit flavors, powdered sugar, hops in background but not really much bitterness to speak of. A unique drinking experience, kind of hard to rate in comparison to anything else.

Purchased at Armanetti in Chicago, IL; split with friends after a nice Greek meal. I think this is one that should be shared, kind of a special brew. Appearance is a rich copper with a thin white head. Aroma is more sweet than hoppy, it does give off a syrupy nose without much complexity in my opinion. Taste is very good, still has a sweetness but going down, it has a nice burn that sticks in the back of the throat. For being the most hoppy beer in the world, it doesn’t taste like it and has a uniqueness that’s all it’s own, which actually makes it more impressive in my opinion. Great stuff, will get again for special occasions. Also, 2nd time I’ve had this. First time was after a Cubs game where I drank 10 beers on an empty stomach, then decided to order one of these, and an hour later ended up on a bathroom floor. I don’t recommend doing that...