Dogfish Head Raison D Extra

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

12oz bottle. Pours a clear ruby reddish color with a thin brownish head. Aroma is rich and sweet, with aromas of molasses, dark fruit, spices, and a bit of roasted malt. Taste is syrupy and sweet, with a strong rum-like flavor complemented by dark fruit, molasses, booziness, and some hoppiness. Very similar to 120 Minute IPA in character, but still quite distinct in terms of flavor -- a wonderful sipping brew.

A thin wispy head hides notes of cherry, cedar, and a vaguely sweet scent. The overall flavor tends more towards strawberry, dark fruit, caramel, and a somewhat medicinal finish that lingers for a long time. Somewhere along the lines of Forte, but without the impossibly sweet quality. Raison d’Extra would be a fine dessert beer to pair with poached pears in cinnamon with vanilla bean ice cream.

Aromatic with wafts of malt and heavy on the Turkish bazaar-type sweet nuts and fruits and alkeeyhol. Murky brown, but I poured it all without leaving the yeasties behind. Wimpy head. Chewy body that’s also creamy and goes down well in spite of the obvious alcoholic PUNCH. Alcohol overwhelms the flavors considerably. It’s tipsy, with an afterburn and yet has me sipping enthusiastically. Good barley wine.

Amped up? They ain’t kidding. Great aroma of dried fruits and malts. Sweet flavor with lots of alcohol. Nothing hidden here. This is a sipping beer. You can feel the burn. Best on a cold damp night.

Hazy brown with medium head. Malty aroma packed with raisins. Sweet flavor with roasted malt and raisins. A bit boozy and too sweet.

Pours a hazy copper/brown with no head. Aroma of port, raisins, honey, and alcohol. The flavour is top notch, sweet, but good, it’s complex and hard for me to name them all, but theres obviously some port like flavours, with raisins, prune, and alchohol being the most prominent, with undertones of orange, honey, toffee, brandy, brown sugar, green nyquil cough syrup and black licorice. A top notch brew from a top notch brewery.

[917-20071205] 12floz (c/o redlight). Alcohol malt aroma has a hint of nail polish or paint thinner. Hazy, dark brown body with quick off-white bubbles. Sweet strong alcohol malt continues in the flavour with a hint of raisin. Medium body. Lots of raisiny booze.

Wow, kind of surprised it is 18.5% alcohol since it hides it pretty well. Pours brown with a ruby tint and no head whatsoever. Smells sweet and fruity (obviously). Goes down smooth and is very sweet. Well done.