Dogfish Head Liquor de Malt

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Malt Liquor
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker

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40oz bottle via trade thanks to soulforpeanuts on BA. Been after this one for awhile. If there was a packaging category in rating this one, it would do quite well: brown bag, 40oz bottle, plastic screw top. Classy. Pours cloudy amber with a nice frothy off-white head and some lacing on the glass. Aroma is nice and sweet but not too exciting: pale malt, caramel, slight floral hops, and some grainy adjunk (corn, I think). Flavor is sweet and malty. Pale malt and maybe some caramel, grain, corn, and just a hint of floral hops. A little sweeter than it should be. Smooth and sweet on the palate. Medium-bodied with an average carbonation level. Drinkability is not too high, but what 40 of malt liquor is drinkable? Edward 40-hands wouldn’t be much of a challenge then, would it? I think "great for the style, but not great overall" sums it up. I like what they did here, but probably wouldn’t opt to drink this again.

Bottle (Batch 2? this year’s batch) thanks to jjfoodie. A bottle conditioned 40? Awesome. Pours with a large, lasting off-white head. Great lace. Aroma is sweet, apple, caramel. Taste is sweet corn and maybe light hops. Fizzy, dry and probably the best malt liquor that I have ever had.

The bottom dregs from a 40 oz bottle shared at the CL Rosso release. Poured an ugly cloudy milky gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma o sweet malts, vegetables and lots of cream corn. The flavor is similar to the aroma with lots of corn and vegetables, sweet malts, honey topped cereal and alcohol. Novelty beer but in a cool ass 40oz bottle that brought me back to my college days.

40 oz bottle. Poured into a plastic pink wine glass. Aroma just gets soapy, residual and a bit herbal. The flavor is a bit underwhelming. Kind of creamy corn-sugar-based alcohol profile. Oxidized. I had hoped that this would offer me a revolutionary experience with malt liquor, but really it’s just a kind of clean, largely bland plain malt lager that’s strong and unexciting. I’m actually stunned that it’s not painfully sweet and full of "white malt." Fun to try, but I’ve had better craft malt liquors.

Bottle via trade a ways ways ways back shared with liz and cyn for lost night. Pours deep muddy brown with no real head. Nose is sweet and weird. Taste is sweet and muddy. Eh, on taste nearly 6 years old and way past its prime, but a a great concept.

Yeah, 40 oz. Store took all the brown paper bags off!?? Why, not sure. First 40 I ever poured into a glass. Aroma is sweet with some faint fruit and cardboard. Flavor is sweet, some rice and caramel. Some cooked corn sweetness finish.

Bottle 120cl.
Clear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, oxidide malt, mazipan ! moderate alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090821]

Bottle, 1qt 8fl oz, shared by Papsoe. It’s a hazy, golden-orange beer with a minimal-sized off-white head. Malty nose with some alcohol, quite fruity. The flavor is malty and fruity with a faint alcohol warmth and a good sweetness. Full-bodied, and finishing sweet and malty. Well, for a malt-liquor it’s nice, else it’s rather uninteresting. 090821

Botella. Hazy deep golden colour. Sweet alco caramel aroma. Sticky mouthfeel. Sweet caramel malty flavour with alcohol and some fruit.

Bottle 120 cl. Courtesy of pepsican. Pours a hazy deep golden with tiny floating impurities and a small, rough off-white head. Sweetish aroma of corn, malt, caramel and alcohol. Quite full-bodied, almost flat with notes of sweet corn and caramel. Alcoholic finish with a somewhat raw hoppiness. 210809