Dogfish Head Midas Touch Golden Elixir

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Traditional Ale
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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This beer, in my opinion, is probably the best in the world. It has everything that I look for...great taste, high alcohol, very complex, yet very refined. It is very special. It does have a beer/mead taste which is very unique. Although this beer is 9% alcohol, at times it feels like it has considerably more alcohol content - an opinion that has been voiced by others who have had it. Overall, an excellent, truly world-class beer. Certainly pricey, but in this case you get what you pay for.

HONEY - sweet, refreshing. Full marks - this is my favorite, right now. WINNER

My favorite beer of all time! Which explains why I always bowed down to the god Horus. Not only is this beer 9% abv, but it taste like no other beer out there. It’s brewed with real grapes but its taste isn’t overbearing. This beer goes the extra mile and so do I to purchase this classic gem.

This is the perfect beer. Smooth, interesting ingredients, keeps you wanting more. Truly heaven in a glass.

Strong honey and barley notes in the aroma.Smells as good as it looks. Head settles in quickly to reveal an pale, crystal clear, golden ale worthy of King Midas’ fingers. Smells as good as it looks. Minimal lacing. (Head don’t last long, but carbonation acts like a pilsner). Medium mead-like sweetness that finishes subtlely bitter. Light-medium body with a fizzy taste resembling a fine champagne. This ale is as brilliant as the story on the bottle as to how they obtained the recipe!! By the way, this one will get you sideways quick!

I feel that MIdas Touch is the best beer in the world. It has captured the wine and beer world simultaneously. Because it uses muscat grapes which are used for white wine and combines it with a belgian tasting yeast and malt, you get an oak taste while eliminating the excessive sweet and sour taste of wine. The grape, hops, malt, and yeast round out the beer giving the drinker the great sweetness of wine and the crisp bitterness of a malty ale. Robert Donahue

UPDATED: NOV 8, 2009 I really enjoyed this beer. Clear gold pour, minimal head. Citrus aroma, with a fruity finish. You can taste every ingredient in this beer, from the grapiness and honey to the barley.

Very tasty. Part Belgian blonde ale, part Ethiopian honey wine, and part chardonnay. I drank it at about 45 degrees, and it worked well.

Great with food. A wonderful beer to take to someone’s home who likes wine.

UPDATED: JAN 11, 2004 This beer almost like a mead and wine, it is very good. This beer is sweet and smooth. It has honey in it and white muscat grapes. Saffron. It is golden in color and has a great aroma. Nice and sweet smelling. I highly recommend this, it is very good. Really enjoyable.