Dogfish Head Raison D Extra

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

Bottle: Poured a reddish brown with a small off white head. The aroma is sweet with fruit and some veggie earth to it. Taste is very sugary fruit with plenty of alcohol as it filters through my senses fast. Very impressive and glad boboski added into my trade.

12oz. bottle, at least a few years old. At first sniff I knew this would be an ass kicker. Pours a headless, and nearly flat reddish brown. Very viscous and thick. Aroma is of dark candi sugar, dark fruits, and plenty of alchol. Very brandy like. Flavor is sweet caramel, vinous fruits, with a warming but not burning hot finish. Palate is rather full bodied and oily. Definitely an extreme brew that is more of a novelty than anything else. I agree that this needs a pairing of some sort to cut the sweetness.

from a 2007 12 ounce bottle. a deep rich brown color. taste of raison, very sweet, alot of brown sugar. great for an after dinner desert beer. not nearly as intense as i expected (similar to the 120 minute) enjoyed it througholy. all in all dogfish does it right agian.

Poured from a 12oz bottle (bottled on 9/29/06) and served in a tulip. This brew poured a clear, dark copper/amber with a minimal head of quickly fading tan bubbles. Not much lace to speak of. The aroma of the beer consisted of raisons, caramel, sweet vinous notes, candi sugar, and also some alcoholic notes. The flavor was made up of candi sugar, raison/grape notes, sweet caramel, dark fruits, and some warming alcohol. The high ABV was considerably well hidden. The mouthfeel was full-bodied, slick, and slightly oily with minimal carbonation. A very nice beer, but the one thing holding it back was that the sweetness tended to border on cloying at some points.

12 oz bottle, 2005 Vintage. Pours a perfectly clear amber body under a minimal fizzy beige head that completely vanished. Zero visible carbonation. The nose is big alcohol vapors over heavy raison, some candi sugar, and lots of toffee malt. The flavor is ridiculously sweet, but I can actually appreciate it some before the tide of alcohol washes it away. Tons of raison, dark brown sugar, and some fig and date fruitiness. Mouthfeel is full bodied and thick, but not especially sticky or cloying despite how sweet the taste is. Moderate soft fizzy carbonation. Overall, this wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting. I had a much harder time putting down their WWS than this. If you like the sweet stuff, this might just be for you.

11/2005 12oz bonus bottle from the newly beer god, kmweaver. From my wants list. Thanks Ken! Pours with little head of small bubbles barely fighting their way to the surface of the deep brownish amber liquid. Lots of sediment in the bottle including little black chunky things. What were those?Aroma is a little crazy. Deep dark fruits, malt laden apricots and some inevitable alchohol. Thick body. Lightly sweet malt taste. I would put this in the barleywine category. Maybe it’s the alchohol, but it has low drinkability. Must be sipped for sure. It needs an accompanyment of some cheese or something. At 18% I can’t help but wonder what it will be like in 10 years.

Whoa! Another knockout from DFH! Aroma heavy of alcohol and dark fruits. Mouth feel like a plum wine with raisins, brown sugar, and malt. This is an excellent slow sipping after dinner beer.

Pours a beautiful dark amber with a minimal head. The aroma has the signature Dogfish characteristics... I’m not sure how to describe it... old socks, maybe? Really funky. I suppose it’s the yeast they use, but I don’t know. The flavor is super heavy... the alcohol comes out underneath dark malts and raisins. The beginning is a tad rough, but it all smooths out into a thick sweet flavor that has hints of cocoa. Much closer to the other Dogfish super-strong beers than to the Raison d’etre. Excellent.