Dogfish Head Burton Baton

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

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Nice rich golden red pour, pleasantly strong aroma and good mouth feel, with a balanced finish

Bottle. Mellow wooden aroma. Murky golden brown, no head. Wood and vanilla start, spicy cocoa middle, herbal background notes. Medium to light body, light oils, dry wooden finish, perfumed hop and wooden vanilla retronasal. Slightly weird mix at first, but pleasant in the long run.

Draft. They poured it really cold, so hard to get an accurate description. But loving the warrior hops, and really well balanced. Hides the alcohol

Nose is nice with with fruity hop notes. Fruits are dark pitted fruits like plum or cherry. Pour is orangish amber with a thin cream cooled head. Taste is very interesting. More amber ale than ipa. Malt is the main flavor and the oak is very subtle and on the tail end which also kind of mediciny like cough syrup, though not unpleasant. Mouthfeel is medium. All in all a decent beer. Not a show stopper but pretty good. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle thnx to Budznudz. Pours a clear dark orange beer with a small white head. Aroma is nicely balanced between sweet oaky and full bitter hops. Sweet oak and light alcoholic. Flavor is very nice, hints of caramel, light bitter and again very well balanced. Awesome feeling, great in balance, awesome beer.

Following an Oaked Arrogant Bastard; shockingly sweet in comparison. Golden-red with a thick, long-retaining head just on the cream side of white. General berry-sweet fruit in the scent; gentle malt is apparent, and a little sweet-hop aroma. In terms of flavor, this beer, while being hugely enjoyable, is more sweet than I want it to be. It hints at hops and wood at every stage of a sip, but never gives enough of either. The mouthfeel is detrimentally effected by the sweetness. My mouth candied up with improper ecstasy that I’d rather spend on bitterness or sourness. If I knew a lady that enjoyed beer, flowers, and sweets, I’d buy her every bottle of this I could. And I guess I’d hold onto a few for safe-keeping. Overall, this is another version of a ’big-bad-wannabe-macro-but-good’ beer that I’d recommend, but wouldn’t quite serve to impress the beer buddies. It’s fucking good, but that’s all it is. And did I mention it’s weirdly sweet? I really wish this one sat on wood a good while longer, and at least another hop addition would have done is justice. Last word: very good, but.... well, give one to your non-beer-geek friends to get them on the path to great beers.

Pours a medium - dark amber with a small head. Sweet, caramel aroma. Nice, full taste. Would recommend

Pours typical DIPA amber with a fairly long lasting off-white fine head. Nose is potent bitter hops, apples, a little wood, and booze. Flavor is big, crisp hops on the front with a fast fade to the malt and its fruitiness. Some bitterness lingers and lasts through the long, sticky finish. Booze is present but doesn’t hurt anything. Good DIPA.

Amber pour with a thick white head. Oak, hopy, vanilla smell. Nice malt body with hints of vanilla, oak flavor and hops take over on the finish. Very smooth beer all the way through, this is top of the line.

Strong alcohol, pine and malts on the nose. Pours a rich amber. More sweet and malty than I hoped for. I really wanted to like this more and found it hard not comparing the Burton Baton to Cigar City’s Humidor Series Cedar Aged Jai Alai IPA (which is far better IMO).