Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA

A hazy orange beer with a fine beige head. The aroma is like sticking your head into a hop plant - hops and oil all over. The flavor is also very hoppy on a sweet background with notes of oil and loads of bitterness, that draw out the mouthwater.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Dark amber, unfiltered with a pretty flat head and some sediment. Pronounced hoppiness in the nose, in fact the hops saturates this beer - they’re simply all over and returns in the palate. One of the most hardcore IPA’s I’ve had.

Bottled. Amber colour, average head. Strikingly hoppy nose with pear and lychee. Initilally it’s dry with rounded mouthfeel. It’s dominated by sweaty hops, but there is enough malt not to make it too lopsided. Some malt sweetnes comes through before a finish which is very bitter.

Cask gravity @ GBBF 2007, London. Light unclear medium orangge color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, orange, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.

Bottled. Golden colour, small beige head. Apricot, hops and fruits in aroma. Hoppy apricotty/sour peachy flavour. Longlaasting fruitish hoppy aftertaste. Pleasant and quite refreshing.

Bottle. Clear golden coloured with a white head. Aroma of malts, fruits, pine needles and hops. Dry flavour of malts, fruits, pine needles, grape fruits and hops.

Date: April 02, 2003
Mode: Bottle
Source: Whole Foods Market, DC
Appearance: hazy orange, thin fine white head
Aroma: nice sweet grassy citrus hop aroma
Body: light creamy body
Flavor: solid hop flavor leading to a long bitter finish

Date: January 29, 2005
hops fade, drink fresh, still a great creamy pale ale with nice hops, citrus character, and a mellow esb like bitter finish

Date: April 04, 2007
Mode: draft
Source: taco mac
Score: 3.3 to 3.0
nice, hoppy, and drinkable, a basic IPA by today’s standards

Date: September 10, 2008
Mode: draft
Source: summits woodstock
Aroma: sweet crystal malt aroma with spicy hops
Flavor: sweet malt flavor with crystal and caramel malts, nice balancing citrus hops, light bitterness
Overall: more about the hop flavor rather than bitterness as it should be making a really easy drinking IPA

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

The brewer told me that the first time they made this beer the football game didn’t work and he had to do it by hand. Ouch! Hazy amber, floral, lightly piney hop nose. Rich hops, lots of bitterness. In a way, this is less balanced than the 90Min, but in a way, that makes it better. A great beer in the hop-o-rific West Coast style.