Dogfish Head Red and White

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

2007- Cloudy magenta/ cranberry juice in color...coriander, orange and an overall sweet smell,.expected more to show through on the nose and palate...a soft creamy mouth-feel...wine seems to drown out much of the Belgian flavor...slight sweetness, flat flavor, and a sour finish...very intresting

750ml bottle via trade with JB175 I believe. Thanks. Pours pinkish red, with a 1 finger pink/white head. Aroma is light with hints of coriander and a bit of something else lightly winey. Taste is very interesting, beer and wine with definite coriander and orange peel is there too. This really strange but good and the alcohol is also noticeable. Good work sam keep up the experimentation.

Bottle from Weaver St. Market in SoVill. bottled 2/19/07. pours a bright and hazy red with a sudsy white head that fades. Nose is typical of a belgian wit with less coriander, and added oak, pomegranate, and strong vinous notes (guessing this is the pinot juice.) Flavor is similar, with a wet, bitter finish. Fruity and strong, yet refined a bit in the middle. This beer is thin in the middle but much thicker in the finish. An interesting experiment that I can say Im happy to have attempted. My conclusion is that this is a success.

Rich, mellow aroma and flavor. Ripe red fruits. The only complaint I have is there is a bit of rough, dry woodiness on the finish and aftertaste.

750 mL bottle, split with NachlamSie. Pours crystalline rusty red with thin, but long lasting white head with a pink hue to it. The aroma is corriander, a touch of cellar funk, and lots of sweet fruity tones. Pretty vinous nose, really, though it has some zest and citrus in there with the grapes and berries. The flavor is zest and yeast at first; it starts off like a pretty textbook wit. The mouthfeel is very sparkling, but still fairly round. As it moves through the mouth, it becomes much more vinous. Grape, oak, and alcohol tones kick in toward the finish, though a strong corriander presence reminds me of the mixture. The aftertaste is dry and musty and is really where the red wine aspects dominate. After several sips it starts getting really dry. Interesting, to say the least. I think I’ve decided that I like it.

Bottle thanks to Tronraner. Pours a distinctive red with a fluffy, receding white head. The nose is fairly delicate for a beer of this magnitude. Apparent vinous notes are up front with fruity suggestions, subtle farmhouse funk, oak, cherries. Why is Dogfish Head so weird? The mouthfeel is crazy. It’s very spritzy, yet coating and cakey at the same time. It’s heavy on the oaken/grapey sweetness with a fairly earthy finish with bold flavors of coriander and other, tamer spiced tones. This is a very vinous beer indeed. DFH tries so many weird things, which I really respect. This is one of the winners.

I’m not a big fan of wit beers nor wine, but I am a DFH fan, so I had to give this a try. The color is beautiful, somewhere between a burnt orange and cherry red. Aroma is all coriander/wit. Flavor is more of the same, plus some cherry, orange peel, and oak notes. I don’t get a lot of wine, except maybe in the moutheel, which is pleasantly sharp. I don’t want to write this off as simply an interesting experiment, because it’s more than that -- but it’s not one of my favorites.

Bottle. Ruby red pour with a snow white head. Lovely, wine-like aroma with hints of cherry and red raspberry. Medium body. The orange and coriander come out in the taste, along with the cherry and raspberry I had detected in the aroma. Alcohol is only noticeable in hints in the aftertaste. With all of the flavors that go into this one, the final flavor seems a little subdued. But then again, Pinots are such delicate, subtle reds that I guess it makes sense that the end result here is likewise subtle and mellow. Not my favorite of the Dogfish lineup, but their innovative spirit really shows through in brews like this one, and that is the quality I love most about this brewer.