Dogfish Head Raison D Extra

12 oz bottle, bottled 03/15/07. The third in my tastings of DFH’s 15%+ beers. Pours brown amber, and a vigorous pour is able to elicit a coarse light tan head that dissolves rapidly. Definitely has some legs (ah, wine term, fabulous!). First aroma is the now-familiar extreme sweetness and alcohol blend characteristic of these high-gravity brews. Getting past that there may be some fruity (dark fruits and cherries) and caramel aromas, but it’s hard to distinguish them. Flavor is of course intensely sweet with some alcohol, but also has the raisin and grape notes of the base beer, especially in the finish, along with some caramel, which all complement the sweetness nicely. Not as great as World Wide Stout, but quite a nice beer.

12 oz bottle from NYC. This is packed with flavour, but the raisins make this almost more like a fortified wine than a beer. Molasses, raisins, warming alcohol, sherry and port tones. For slow sipping with a good book.

Jeese, this beer is strong! Aroma is of booze - hard alcohol, toffee, raisins, and other dark fruits. Taste is vanilla like with some pistachios and alcohol. Syrupy mouthfeel, with lively carbonation. This beer is way to alcoholic for my tastes!

Bottle at EBF. Amber, no head. Sweet syrupy, alcoholic aroma, cloudberry liqueur. Flavor is cloud and raspberries, maple syrup, sweeeet, alcohol burn in the finish. Full bodied, sticky palate. Good as a liqueur, but difficult to rate as beer.

Courtesy of Tony @ OTH. Pours amberwith tan head. Aroma is filled with alcohol, malty and fruity (raisin). Taste, is again fill with the 18.5abv, malty fruity. Something to sip on and enjoy.

12 oz bottle. Pours a beautiful maroon or dark rust. Sweet to the nose and you can "smell the proof" as like in the Sam Adams Triple Bock. Taste of raisins and malt. Delicious I will buy again the next time I’m in the WI area.

bottle, 12 fl. oz. 2007. appears muddy golden/brown. dark yellow head that was mostly bubbles and that disappeared really fast. flavor is raisins, and a little citrus. not that strong. no alc. in aroma. a little sourness also in the aroma. flavor : alc! lots of alc! also raisins, sweet stuff, bitterness. not balanced, and not really very well tasting. for comparison, rørvig gløgg-øl is much better tasting and about as strong. and they usually make totally shitty beer. Anyways, flavor is, if you can distract yourself from the alc, somewhat belgian, just quite subdued. will let it warm, perhaps it gets better. an alternative way to get drunk for sure, If i should compare it to something it would be an average belgiand, add vodka to bump ABV to 20%, and drink.. Still, i love it when brewers freak out and make something special. keep surprising me please. I think this one would probably be less agressive and more balanced if lagered for some time. What about a barreled version? I have warmed it now. it just got worse. In my opinion the beer clearly can’t mange the high ABV, alc. distracts bigtime. if you drink it like whiskey (no air) it is a lot better.

Damn... Pours deep copper color with a light head. Smells pungent, of grapes(duh) and alcohol. I needed a friend to help me finish the 12oz bottle.