Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Milton, Delaware USA

On draught at Rattle ’N’ Hum (NYC): By far one of the most memorable beers I’ve tasted. Notes of apicots, peaches, cranberry, maple syrup, and raisins... So delicious! It’s one bountiful fruit basket in a pint. I’ll come back to this one again and again. For sure.

I don’t normally like a hoppy beer, but wanted to give this one a shot. I’m pretty impressed. Although the hoppiness is a little too much for me, as i normally prefer a more malty, yeasty type of beer. This one has a good mouthfeel and a very strong finish. Hop hop hoppy hop.

This beer followed Urthel Samaranathanantnatnantntn at the Freakin Frog in Vegas and it certainly lived up to the expectation without considering how my wallet just got raped.
Poured out a clear amber brew with a great light tan that was quite thick and left average lacing. The aroma is insane! One of the best I’ve ever smelt. Beautifully floral with peaches, apricot nectar, more fruits that I didn’t have time to identify, weak pine, raisins maybe, thick malts. The taste was incredible form first sip - the wonderful aroma just set that up. Intense hops of grapefruit, orange, lemon, sweet bready malts, soft caramel, tastes like flowers smell, weak molasses. It’s all just put together so nicely. Every sip I told my wife that this is one of the best tasting beers I’d ever had in my life. Smooth on the mouth with good, soft carbonation, deceiving bitterness that was no where near as taste bud crippling as I figured it would be. The shit part of this is that I had to attempt to review it and drink it in under 5 minutes. But still, what a five minutes that was.

wow! Pours a copper-gold with off white head laces nicely. Aromas of sweet malt, dark fruits some caramelly molasses, citrus hop - orange, and noticeable alcohol. Creamy-medium body malts upfront and then bite into the hops (citrus, pine) which tingles the top of your mouth while your tongue takes in the sugary malt, dark fruit molasses. "Brandied fruitcake" is pretty dead on - 294 calories of deliciousness! Sweet raisin contrasts the piney bitterness and alcohol to round off the finish(last a good while). You have to expect a 9ABV to be sweet...all around just fantastic!

I didn’t care for this. It’s hopped over and over and over. It just tasted like I was chewing on a hop cone as using it like snuff and drinking the juice.

did not really live up to the hype, maybe a bad batch but i really didnt like this one too much. Dogfish Head is sort of hit or miss for me, i guess this was a miss.

Original review date 10/30/2008...12-oz into Cab glass. I haven’t had this for a few years, so let’s see if I can trust my palate memory... Crystal-clear copper color with sparse carbonation. Head is thin and dissipates quickly, leaving yeasty bubbles. Extra-grassy and earthy hops, but there is that DFH tell that I remember profusely...quite a bit of earth. There’s actually a little cowpie stench in there, too. Copious amber/caramel malt. Even thought there’s clamminess and the cowpie stench shows up in the back of the palate, there is a nice malty taste to this with slightly alcoholic sweetness. Still...that extra-earthy tone detracts from this quite a bit and grassys up the hop bitterness a great deal. Good, but not as impressive as one would expect. Palate feel is OK once the earth is traversed. It’s mostly amber maltiness, with some austere grassy hops and maybe some pinyness. Still, that signature DFH earthy aftertaste will bite down on it hard. Now I remember why I haven’t picked this one up recently. Decently-crafted but maybe it’s the water that provides that ultra-earthiness. Not for me.