Dogfish Head Raison D Extra

2005 bottle it pours a light glowing brown with zero head. The smells very sweet (honey) and the raisins come through along with other dry fruits. The taste is of maple syrup with a nice dry warming finish. With the age on the bottle the alcohol level isn’t offensive at all. This is great beer for a really cold winter day it’s really warms you much like apple cider mixed with some captain Morgan.

Bottle from Wegman’s in Princeton. Pours a deep clear orangish amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt, raisins, honey, and of course alcohol. Flavor is a sweet raisiny alcohol explosion. Like a liqueur almost, with fairly low carbonation. A little hot, might improve with age. Good stuff though.

2002 vintage thanks to Cornfield at DLD ’09. Clear amber with no head. Aroma is sweeter maple but not offensively so, slight alc, vanilla, honey (mead like), real nice. Sweet bourbon aged mead like, honey, burn, vanilla, maple, aged notes. Medium and syrupy with burn. Nicely aged and heat is less than normal but still present, like a barrel-aged mead. Thanks Carl!

Pours a deep amber color with a tiny tan head. Aroma is raisins, caramel, toast, a touch of earthyness, and alcohol. Flavor is sweet syrupy malt, caramel, biscuit, raisins, and a sweet alcohol finish.

Pours an amber red/orange brown. Strong aroma of dark fruits. Flavour warming with fruit and malt notes. Alcohol is well hidden. Pleasent beer all around.....and I normally absolutely hate raisons!

Amazing beer- gloriously thick and noticeable heavy for a liquid. It coats the glass with a lovely film, great smell of sweet sugars, like a raisin bran crunch with a lot of sugar on the bottom of the bowl. This is way easier to drink than the Raison D’etre in my opinion, and the alcohol is not even noticeable It does not read on the bottle, so I was guessing 10 or 12% abv. I was wrong. Bottle at Lucky Liquors in Miami, Florida.

05 bottle. Sweet smelling and sweet tasting but with a nice clean body and a suprisingly mellow alcohol presence. It (the alcohol) burns the throat though while warming the belly. The brew finishes warming and sweet. Allot of figs, raisins, sweet malt and alcohol flavours. To sweet for me but still drinkable.

Bottle from trade with SoLan - glad you had pho, my man! Aroma is a thick dull grape skin and dark syrup. Color is that darkish red brown with no head that many aged beers have. Flavors are raisin, maple, hazelnut, and eventually a dry coffee. This bottle had some age on it, but boy was this pleasant.