Dogfish Head Pearl Jam Twenty Faithfull Ale

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

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Pours golden yellow-pale orange with a large white head. Smells bready, yeasty, and fruity. Taste is fruity, like currants, with a solid bready, yeasty malt backbone. Medium-bodied with a slick texture and average mouth-carbonation, Dogfish Head Pearl Jam Twenty Faithfull Ale finishes with a fruity sweetness and a bit of breadiness.

Strong currant aroma. This beer reminds me a lot of Midas Touch. Head is short lived and clarity could be improved upon. Very sweet taste that lingers on the tongue for quite some time.

25.4 oz. Bottle purchased in 2011 from Chuck’s 85th Street Hop Shop, Ballard, Seattle, Washington for $15.99. "Ale Brewed With Currants--20 IBU’s". Lacy lasting quarter inch bright white head. Clear pretty bright yellow gold color. Light Belgian yeast aroma with hints of Currants and mild hop notes. Tight sediment hazes brew slightly. Clean mild sweet fruit lick black currant Belgian Golden Ale body. Very nice medium texture. Clean mellow sweet smooth Belgian end. Very smooth and tasty. Aged nicely. (4.25 / 5.0).

Review from the July 4th. Drank this while listening to Pearl Jam’s Rearveiw Mirrior greatest hits. Smells of currants with light hops. Pours a light gold color with light white head that fades quickly. Tastes of currants and mild hops. Mouthfeel was. a light chewyness with a light carbonation. Overall this is a pretty good beer. But tastes better with age, originally had a bottle when it was released.

Pours more like a pilsner than a true Belgian golden, but has an extremely pleasant fruity nose. Currant notes balance well with hop bite, great taste in a highly drinkable beer.

Poured from a 750ml bottle into my tulip glass.

A: Clear golden color, thin white head, not much carbonation showing.

S: Slightly malty with hints of sweetness throughout. Not very strong but pleasant.

T: I actually really liked this. Very easy to drink with a nice fruity flavor to it with a sweet taste.

M: Medium carbonation with times making it near thick with low to medium carbonation.

O: I liked this beer, but then again I wasn’t expecting it to blow my mind like others may have. It’s a nice easy to drink beer with good flavor throughout.

THOUGHTS: Pleasant Belgian ale, but I didn’t really see what all that currant was supposed to do to the beer. Sure, it’s a little fruity, but it could have been just about as fruity with the right Belgian yeast. Docked it a point for being more gimmick than beer. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a sparkling, light to medium gold with beautiful carbonation and an average, white head that mostly diminished and left a little better than fair lacing. The aroma had light grain and pale malts; moderate spicy yeast; lighter dusty yeast; hints of funk at the end of the bottle; grape; apple; golden raisins; white wine; slight honey; berry; light fruits; and the slightest hint of vinegar. The initial flavor was lightly sweet, light to moderately acidic and slightly bitter; while the finish was light to moderately sweet, lightly acidic and slight to lightly bitter. There was white wine, green grapes, berry, spicy yeast, slight honey, grain, pale malt, slightly dusty yeast, light fruits and hints of funky yeast. The light to medium body was rather dry with quite fizzy carbonation and a dry and ever so slightly astringent finish.

Hazy-ish gold with a thin white head. Interesting aroma of belgian yeasty toasted biscuit, currants, citrus, maybe some apricot, and sugary earthy grains. Taste is pretty neat and well put together, not terribly complex but still tasty. Soft citrus hits the palate with some pale sweet belgian cereal grains, following with some yeastiness that comes across as doughy biscuit, with a very gentle citrus/floral hop bitterness that smooths out the sweetness. Its got a currant tone throughout, but it’s not terribly strong, just kinda "there", along with some imagined apricot esters. The fruitiness comes through more in the aftertaste, alongside that doughy yeastiness. Kinda fun to drink.

At Chriso New Year 2011/12 tasting. Clear pale gold lasting off white head. Lagerish aroma. Some fruit in flavour. Yes some blackcurrant in the flavour. Some toast on aroma. Good mouthfeel. I like this. Very lagerish. Nice fruit. Good.

Bottle. Great bottle. Pours a light golden color with an orange hue and a small fizzy white head. Nose is grainy with grassy hops and straw notes, light currant notes. Palate is full with a heavy load on the tongue, little syrupy but not overwhelming. A light sting is also present. Flavors of currants, light sweetness, grainy notes.