Dogfish Head Chicory Stout

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Stout
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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On tap, pours a really dark brown color with a medium tan head that leaves good lacing. Smells of coffee, roasted malt, dark chocolate and black licorice. Tastes of all the same things in the smell with a slight spicy wood flavor I’m assuming is the Chicory. Mouthfeel is thick and creamy with great carbonation. Overall this is a great coffee stout but all the other things going on flavor wise mute the coffee flavor a bit. Still a solid Dogfish beer all around.

Good smokey, roasty stout with mexican coffee, barley, malt, oats, and some flavorful hops.

Bouteille de 12oz. Merci Patrick. Bière brune foncée presque noire avec une mousse beige foncée. Au nez d’intenses notes de café, de cendrier, de chocolat, de caramel. Bouche particulière avec du chocolat, des épices. Finale sur une drôle d’amertume. Produit particulier.

I’d be reluctant to have this marked out as a session beer, I think that the overall impression of sweetness would make it a difficult ask after a few. If you were working through a few beers in a evening with friends this would be a magnificent part of that journey, it offers a lot to talk about and mull over., and you’d need a couple because it’s just that nice. I would recommend this to friends and I would buy it again.

Dark brown, clear, tan head. Big coffee nose with some chocolate as well. Flavor is chocolate, coffee, cocoa, a cinnamon-like spiciness (possibly from the chicory, which I'm not familiar with), a little licorice and an earthy note. Has a biscuity dryness at the end. Interesting. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Standard looking stout, not a creamy one. The roasted malt and style of coffee seem to clash, giving off a bite that's not all together terrible, just slightly. Still, drinkable. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tan head nice block size dark pour soft medium carbonation aromas rich chicory so good caramel a dark chocolate note the flavours chicory very sharp but smooth caramel nice touch dark chocolate mild coca very nice medium bitter a smooth stout with the chicory so good on the palate at the finish main aftertastes chicory dark malts medium bitter really good stout

Dark black pour with a finger width light tan head. Smells strongly of coffee but with a very balanced taste and a smooth mouth feel, definitely a solid stout.

Une petite bouteille versée dans une pinte qui devient presque noire. J’observe une tête mousseuse bien belle et très tenace. Je plonge mon pif dans cette marée brune et je découvre plein de choses intéressantes. Outre le café, il y a des grains qui sont tout près d’être brûlés. Il y a une présence évidente de la chicorée. Je sens des racines, de la terre et des épices. Des parfums chocolatés viennent se greffer à ce grand mouvement d’air torréfié. Mes papilles ne sont pas en reste. Ma langue capte encore une fois des éléments rôtis qui finissent par faire parler le café, la chicorée et les racines de réglisse. Il y a toujours cette présence chocolatée qui, fort heureusement, ne permet aucune intrusion sucrée. Une bouche sèche qui ne propose aucune acidité. Le liquide propose un corps facilement aimable, moyennement léger et doucement bercé par les bulles. La texture pourrait être qualifiée de finement huileuse. La finale est honnête, amèrement chocolatée et parcimonieusement touchée par une fumée de torréfaction.

Pouring a very dark brown with a touch of red with a tall, frothy, cappuchino’ed-milk head, this beer looks quite appealing. The nose has bitter cocoa and toasty malt, but an unsettling slight sourness as well. The flavor is similar, more coffee coming out on the tongue, with nice hops that balance but do not overpower, but still that undesired sour element. Drinks down very easily because it is so well-balanced, seeming quite dry and quaffable. I have to admit I can’t really get the chicory, although I can buy that it serves as a smoothing agent. Very easy to like and interesting compared to many dry stouts, but the flavor profile lacks the complexity I was expecting out of Dogfish Head. I know, that’s probably not fair...