Dogfish Head Au Courant

Formerly brewed at Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Flute

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12 oz bottle purchased @ Mustard Seed Market in Solon, OH: Pours reddish pink like cranberry juice and has a short lived light magenta head. Laces well. Sweaty aroma along with some wet horseblanket & catty aromas. Currant aroma is a lot lighter than others until it warms, but it still takes the back seat. There also seems to be a light grainy malt and floral hop as it warms, but it’s very faint. Flavor is well balanced, a little tart at first, but smooths out as it warms. Currant flavor more apparent in the flavor as is the grainy malt. A little bit of herbal hop flavor at the very finish which is semi dry & into the lightly grainy malt flavored aftertaste, which is short when you put things into perspective. There’s also a little bit of an earthy, musty flavor at the start. Light medium body, low medium carbonation, and a little mouthpuckering. Not astringent, but dry and strangely smooth at the same time. A very interesting beer to say the least! Not as sour as a lambic, but has some of the characteristics, as well as some grainy "golden ale" characteristics that share the beer equally at different temps. It’s not something I’d drink a whole lot of, but it is interesting for a change

When this beer first appeared several years ago (around 10) I really enjoyed this beer. I don’t know if the recipe has changed over the years, but today it’s much fruitier than I remembered. A fruity aroma but no malt or hop aroma and little currant. Finish has some citrus. I remember liking this beer a lot, that’s why I had to get another bottle, but, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I was hoping. If you like fruity beer, this is for you.

Gift. First off I’m not a fruit beer lover, but it’s Dogfish and it’s a rating. Red/ orange pour with big notes of fruit. Synthetic fruity taste with a tart finish. It was good for the style.

Pours a dark golden orange color with burnt orange hues when held to a light source and a frothy, pillowy two finger off-white head. Very god retention, only slowly fading into a lasting cap. Large chunks of lacing left behind. Very sweet dark fruit aroma with subtle hops, caramel malt and sweet alcohol. Slightly spicy with a bit of pepper that accompanies the apple and currants. Medium bodied with slight oxidization up front. It’s still very sweet with lots of caramel apple and vinous dark fruit. Unfortunately the alcohol hasn’t mellowed much, adding heat and more sweetness. Stale hop profile which is understandable considering the age. Hints of grape, currant, apple and grape along with spicy pepper. Dry finish. I was glad to try this beer but it kind of tastes like spicy, alcoholic apple cider.

Thanks to Degarth for the share. Pours hazy orange red with a small white head. Nose is wine-like: vinous fruit, tartness, currants, and oxidation. Flavor is similar with lots of tart wine character with um, currants. I am glad I got to try it: I can certainly take it off of my wants.

Bottle shared by Joey at a very fun tasting, never thought I’d get to try this one! Obviously a very small pour, but it stuck out as being a slightly oxidized belgian gold with some interesting fruity sweetness and a bit of lingering tartness. A beer that was probably very fun and explosively flavorful when it came out, and one I wouldn’t mind seeing remade.

UPDATED: NOV 23, 2011 Pours golden. Nose/taste of berry, barley, sweet malt and light hops. Medium body.

Bottle from 03 at the Rosso release at Captain Lawrence. Pours a hazy brown with a thin white head and some grey flecking throughout. Gorgeous currant aromas, sweet and smoky. Tastes like sweet currant candies, soft and fuzzy. Caramel and slightly tart. Seems to have held up rather well.

Dogfish Head Brewing Company--Au Courant--2004 12 oz. Bottle. 7.00% ABV--25 IBU’s? (3.5 / 5.0) Fruit Ale--Black Currant--Pink mild lace head. Bright dark pink red color. Mild Bottled Conditioned sediment haze. Rich currant mild hop front. Dry sweet astringent currant sour thin malt body. Tart dry sweet fruit citrus mild hop end. Fruity Lambic Flavor. Sampled 7/22/2005.

Dogfish Au Courant. Pours a hazed orange color with a beige head. Nose of perfume, sugar, candy, alcohol and grains. Grainy fruit sweet malt flavors with alcohol phenols. Soo sweet and tough to drink. 5/3/5/3/10

Pours hazy blue/red color, medium off-white head. Aroma- sweet and tart berry. Taste is moderately sweet berry and caramel with some tart finish. Medium body.