Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2001/2003-Present (18%)

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Snifter

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12oz bottle (2011). Pours a deep brown, almost black color with a little more than one finger of creamy coffee colored head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, notes of coffee and alcohol. The taste is also of roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee, sweet and warming peppery alcohol.

2007 drank 2013. Pours black with thin tan head that fades to a bit of foam on the edge quickly. Everything about this is sweet, from the nose with chocolate covered prunes, to the mouth full of a light port sense. Finishes with faint chocolate notes and lots of residual sugar. Big, bold, should’ve shared with someone. Hides the alcohol extraordinarily well.

Jet black, brief head that fades quickly. The aroma is really great. It smells like dark but creamy chocolate, coffee notes with hazelnut and vanilla, caramel, something like bread pudding, too, and pumpkin pie. God, it smells good. I could sit and just smell it for a damn while. All of that is in the flavor, of course, but there’s also a booziness that isn’t surprising from 18% ABV. Plus there is more hop burn and tingle than I expected, big coffee on the finish, and a strong ABV punch on the exhale. This is a remarkable stout, I wish it were easier to find in my area.

Balanced aroma and near perfect pour with a strong alcohol taste and mild mouthfeel. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

2010 bottle scored in a trade, consumed in March of ’13. 12oz bottle to snifter. Aroma of alcohol and dark ripe fruits. Dark and thin. Booze, fermenting fruits. Syrupy with some carbonation. Tastes like a stout and a barleywine had an accidental baby. Gives you a concerned look on your face when you sip it.

Reviewed 3/11/13. 2010 vintage, 12 oz bottle into a tulip glass. Had this one about a week ago; from notes. A: How about that, it’s not entirely pitch black. It pours a very dark red color in general. The head is one finger mocha shade with superb retention given its gravity. S: One of the most ridiculously prune-forward stouts I’ve ever encountered. This makes the dark fruit notes of BCBS and Parabola look feeble in comparison. No, it doesn’t have the luscious bourbon character of those two (well, of BCBS at least), but it is backed by some rock-solid chocolate and vanilla notes. Yes, it’s ridiculously sweet - at this ABV though, it’s a moot point. T: Simply put, a chocolate/prune bomb. The complexity featured is solid (perhaps not as impressive as its gravity would suggest), with augmenting flavors of smoke, bourbon, vanilla, and molasses. Roast notes are missing, or probably just buried beneath all of the sweetness. What ISN’T missing is the booziness...well, actually, it kind of is. It’s only really prevalent on the finish and aftertaste; I have trouble buying it’s 18%. The price for that is paid by the sweetness level, but it falls short of being ridiculously cloying, thankfully. M: Creamy, thick, and super sweet. The finish dries up enough to expose some alcoholic heat on the back of the palate. Most of the heat felt from this appears on the esophagus and stomach, really. Carbonation is very low. O: This is one of those offerings I only desire to have once a year; but during that singular day out of 365, it’s just really, really easy to like. Take out some of the prevalent chocolaty notes, and this could almost pass for a great port. Certainly a must try.

black color, aroma of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, same flavors, lots of roasted malt, licorice, brown sugar, oats, pine hops, booze, very big beer thats very enjoyable

This is a beer I’ve been meaning to try for a couple years now and finally took the plunge a couple days ago. In the last few months I’ve been escalating my stouts, trying first Founder’s Breakfast Stout, then Goose Island’s Bourbon County and now one of the biggest fish in the stout sea, Dogfish’s World Wide Stout. Each step was an escalation of flavor and complexity. This is a beer to be savored over the course of maybe an hour.

#150 RIS. Thx! to Kraddel. 355 ml. bottle split. Darkish brown, blackish, little head, that quickly goes to the sides, mocha. Cheaper chocolate, chocolate cake in the nose, sweet, brown sugar, light liqueur, roasted malts, slight tang. Taste is sweet, light booze, touch liqueur, roasted malts, touch burned grains, thick brown sugar, bitterness, stong liquorice, light booze but certainly not overly alcoholic, hides it ABV not badly, touch molasses, warming, black chocolate, bitter,… Touch thicker. As previous DFH, interesting concept that doesn’t really translate into an added value for the beer.

Pours black , no foam Smells oaty Oaty taste Sharp carbo , thick , yet i wouldnt say this is 18 %