Dogfish Head Fort

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Flute

The guy below is a complete moron. He probably thinks bud ice is the best. This beer pours reddish brown. The smell offers sweet raspberries. The taste is sweet,very raspberry,malt,and booze. Great winter beer. It will warm you up. The finish is pretty long. Good solid ale. Please don’t rate a beer if you don’t know what your talking about.

This is complete shit. Its as if Dogfish wanted to brew a beer that tastes just like Robitussin. Stay VERY far away from this.

Draft at Jerry’s. Pale rose-gold with fair, creamy, white head / Mild nose of fresh raspberries and cream / Medium to full body, creamy but with a hot brandy kick, with fair finish / Mild flavors of fresh raspberries and cream / Best approached as more an eau de vie than a beer. I love Dogfish, but some of their beers are best left on the drawing board.

Pours a cloudy orange with a thin foam. Smell of raspberry hides some hop spice. Full body is fruit and alcohol. The fruit leaves residual sweetness while the alcohol leaves some dryness. Good beer.

Light amber color. Aroma of sugary fruit, alcohol. No carbonation, thick syrup, sweetness, alcohol finish. Not my favorite offering. A little ambitious with the ABV leads to a not so great offering.

Clear amber/orange pour with small white head tha quickly dissapears. Aroma is raspberry jam and malt. Taste is raspberry, caramel, butterscotch and vanilla. Very sweet beer but the alcohol tames it down. Low carbonation and a creamy mouthfeel. Very enjoyable fruit beer!

First time with this one. Was generally pleasantly surprised. Aroma was very fresh and fruity with a healthy dose a fruity perfumy alcohol. Often times with these dogfish beers I get a ton of fusel alcohol and it comes off excessive and artificial. Some similar notes to a framboise but mostly from the obvious raspberry connection. You’ll find the ethanol and higher alcohol nose is quite similar to that kicked off by a Samichlaus. Fort is very bright with some pinkish hues amidst the deep golden body. Very minimal head which is quick to drop, light cream to sandy. Fort’s flavor is a blend of fruit and a heavy dose of warming alcohol. There is no shortage of bready malt, but the raspberry and alcohol dominate the palate. Some bitterness in apparent in the finish but quickly washed by the alcohol. The body of Fort is this dense than I imagined. The fruit and hefty alcohol combine to offer a medium light body, deceptively smooth and approachable. A nice supportive carbonation. This was a November 2011 bottle I received for Xmas from the Misses. We shared it and both genuinely liked it. We don’t often see pint to pint. Fort could in many ways work as a nice red wine substitute. Certainly a nice and somewhat surprisingly refreshing night cap. For its high abv it was easily shared between two people. I believe this one would likely age nicely and retain pleasant raspberry notes especially in the flavor. There is room for the alcohol to mellow some but you won’t be disappointed fresh either, just expect some heat.

Pours amber clear in color with a decent off white head. The aroma is boozy raspberries, sweet and potent but delicious. The flavor is similar, sweet but boozy raspberry flavor on a medium syrupy potent body with plenty of boozy raspberry flavor coming through.