Dogfish Head Raison D Extra

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

2002 750 ml bottle shared by Egajdzis at the DFH vertical tasting of 1/27/07 in Rehoboth. Pours a mostly clear copper with strange floaty globules and a thinning diminishing head. Aroma is oxidized with tons of sherry already, toasted malts, sugary sweet toffee, molasses, brown sugar and lots of rum soaked fruits. As it warms the flavor gets more and more boozy and even more sherry oxidation is noticed- cherry pit, tons of stale molasses and brown sugar- old oxidized rum soaked fruits, old decaying autolyzed yeast, and a bit of burnt rubber. Alcohol burning comes through even more as it warms. Newer bottles like the 2005 and 2006 actually seemed to hold up much better than the more rare 750 ml bottle from 2002.

0.355 l bottle at Konttori, Tampere. Hazy brown color. Sweet thick raisiny and fruit liquer like aroma. Lots of raisins and dark sugar in flavor with warming and sharp alcohol as well as notes of meat broth (rosemary?). Surprisingly close to white port wine. Too sweet and boozy for me.

12oz bottle. Pours a leggy off-white head with a beautiful dark amber/ruby, clear body. Aroma is sweet dark fruit, dark sweetness, and alcohol. Tastes the same. Molasses stands out in the finish. Almost sickeningly sweet all around. This is port wine in beer form.

Dark brown with a medium tan head.The smells of rasins, brown sugar, figs, plums, and alcohol all stand out.The taste of alcohol and dark fruits blow me away. I can feel the alcohol burn through my nose and in just a few sips I can feel a warming come over me. Very powerful. It is also very sweet.Not something I could drink all of the time even though I like the alcohol burn and sweetness.

Pours a hazed brown with some tan head. Aroma is alcohol, raisin, coffee, chocolate, honeysuckle, nut, and molasses. Taste is very dynamic with toffee and raisin, some alcohol tingles the nose. Finishes nice and bitter like coffee. Toasty and delicious. Could be more textured but age would surely help.

pours amber/brown with no head. aroma is heavy alcohol but with malts and sweet dark fruit. drinks hot with 20% and is sweet and rich. full mouth feel and finishes hot. will be much better with age i would expect

(Bottle, 0.355 l, at Pikkulintu, Helsinki, on 2009-03-27 -- shared with isos, thanks!) Reddish and hazy. Lots of raisin and malts in aroma. Full bodied, warming an dry palate with little bit of carbonation. Malts, wood and raisin in aftertaste.

Poured brown with almost no head. Aroma of booze. Some raisin and fruit flavor but mostly booze. A big booze bomb.