Dogfish Head Immort Ale

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Snifter

I love big beers and scotch, but this is not for me. All the basics are here but the flavors are to smokey and almost fishy. Great looking and the palate would be perfict if I liked the flavor. Will not buy again.

Velvet feel with that peat and vanilla soaked bourbon-like flavor coming through. Mahogany in the finish. Bitter hop presence but this does not carry to the flavor where malts and grains rule the day. Biscuit grain too? Overall a nice barleywine but a bit unbalanced with everything going on in the flavor. Thanks Joe P the new brewer at Barley Creek for this one!

Draft. Pours clear amber with thin off-white head; decent retention and some lacing. Aroma is roasted malt, dark fruit, smoke, and light earthy hops. Flavor is mostly sweet malt with some smokiness and alcohol; sweet finish. Medium body and carbonation with high warmth.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy reddish brown with a small white head.. some carbonation action in the glass. Smells of caramel and maple syrup. Taste is interesting.. some smoke.. maple.. vanilla..and a very faint bit of alcohol on the finish. I’m pretty impressed.

Purchased at In Fine Spirits in Chicago, IL; enjoyed after running and finishing a half marathon on a cold, windy January afternoon. Appearance a red/orange hybrid with a thin white head that rims around the glass. Aroma is nice and complex, slight sweet, vanilla notes, maple, dark fruit, light smoke, and oak. Taste is good, alcohol burn in the back end but masks it quite well, maple shines a bit more with a smoke/oak presence. It’s pretty good, having a difficult time trying to review it. It’s good, not my favorite barley wine, but it’s good.

This a barley wine that works for me because it has some interesting things going on and it isn’t just about an overdose of sweet malt, which I think is rookie breweing. The brew is still sweet, but not overdone, and the sweetness has some interesting complexities in it. Most noteworthy is the strong oak tones, which work very well. There is some mild bitterness, to help balance things out. There are also more subtle flavors that I cannot identify yet. This is a barley wine that I will come back to again, and will age several bottles.

Cerveza color cafe obscuro, de cuerpo completo, añejada en roble; en el aroma se nota el añejamiento ya que se percibe cierto olor a madera, asi como a vainilla; el sabor como en muchas cervezas añejadas, es raro, exotico, complejo, pero en este caso bien balanceado y totalmente disfrutable.

Draught @ City Beer, San Francisco, CA

Pours reddish orange with a small bubbly head. Strong malty aroma with notes of syrup, ash and smoke. Taste is quite malty and sweet with notes of smoke, ash and maple syrup. Warming, sweet and slightly spicy finish. Okay, a bit untypical barley wine.