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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(Bottle) Another generous pick from Keg_Juggler. This is the MOAB of Hop Bombs! The alcohal and IBU are off the chart. Clear, light-amber complexion with thin head, no lacing. Aroma is piney, resin, grapefruit and alcohol with similar flavors. Not for the beer novice. A Masters in Beer Appreciation with a Hop minor is recommended to enjoy.

I can only say wow. The first taste was like swigging some high octane alcohol. I got that body swivel shake when u down whiskey. Very hoppy as you would predict it being 120ibu. Alcohol level of 18 plus % was major impressive. Smell was strong, taste improved with each sip, nice dark appearance with a creamy lacy head. I have to thank my brother Dave for sharing his pre2009 bottle. With just a 1/3 share of the bottle i was feeling good. I would totally recommend trying the 120. Buy 2 bottles. One for tasting and the other to save for the next few years. Aged like a fine wine. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Sweet alcohol on the nose, bordering on rubbing alcohol. Golden orange color with almost no head & quickly disapaiting lacing. Taste is very sweet, almost caramelized sugar. Stays on the palate for a long time.

12 oz bottle. Pours a golden amber with almost no head. Fruity alcohol nose. Taste is Surprisingly sweet, also hardly any bitterness. Tastes more like a belgian than an IPA. Fairly drinkable for 18%. Try this!

UPDATED: APR 8, 2012 Certainly more of a triple than an IPA. Very potent. Suspiciously like a hoppy IPA but likely more an infused alcohol tripel. Tremedously strong but suspiciously drinkable. Hard to rate because the alcohol overcomes the flavor. Both wonderfully grand and needlessly strong.

I feel lucky enough to have been able to try this twice. My second bottle I poured into a large, balloon snifter. The beer gives off a slightly hazy, golden-amber color that looks inviting for a beer of such weight. A stiff current of slick booziness pervades all the aromas given off from the glass. Notes of soaked apricot, deep melon and pungent fruits rise from the glass. The head is minimal, and what there is recedes quickly to a thin, foamy cap. On the palate, this beer flows lazily over the tongue and coats the mouth with warming flavors of hop resin, deep apricot, pear, sweet pine and more melon. All of these flavors come warmly and sweetly across the palate, but do not burn. The finish is smooth and slick with more sticky resin and pear notes coming through. The alcohol really makes itself unforgettable in this beer, which is not surprising. However, it doesn’t overpower and integrates itself with the flavors very deftly. This is craft beer at its most awesome and daring.

Drank as part of the "continuously-hopped challenge" (drinking 60, 75, 90, 120 minute DFH ipas). Aged for close to a year. 120 is a lotta beer. The thickest beer of the continuously-hopped brethren. Beautiful dark amber color. Peach, really. No major head to speak of. The first whiff knocks you off your feet. Whew. There is that booze...but also some pine in there and a syrupy sweetness. The taste is right there too. So sweet that it covers the hops at first. Then the hops rage back, hiding the booze fairly well. Long lasting lingering. Has some of those major malt and fruit taste that you might find in a Belgian Strong. The mouthfeel is extremely thick with slight carbonation. Definitely a sipper. Couldn’t imagine how a beer hopped for 2 hours wouldn’t be a sipper. I wonder what she’d be like with a bit more carbonation. Quite a beer. One 12 oz. was more than enough for me and the Mrs. Glad we got to try it, and wouldn’t mind revisiting once in awhile. Challenge over. Time for bed.

Bottled 2011. Burnt cloudy orange appearance with no head when poured into a snifter. Very nice aroma, carmel malt, citrus, pine, and sometimes I get strawberries and other fruits. Powerful taste. Would never be able to tell this is 18% abv. Lots of carmel malt along citrus and fruit. Malt is pretty well balanced by the bitterness. Very sticky mouthfeel, lingers for a while. A must try for IPA lovers. About as smooth as it gets at that abv.

Deep amber color with no head. Aroma is caramel and hop with some grapefruit. The palate is pretty intense. Huge burn from the alcohol kills your palate. Taste is very sweet. Finish is grapefruit with major sweetness. I liked the taste of this a lot, but the palate just killed it for me.

Lacy head retention, darker golden color, nose is too much like rubbing alcohol but what should I expect, obviously strong alcohol taste as well, almost feels more like drinking brandy; not too hoppy, fruit with a slight coffee and chocolate aftertaste