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

This might be my favorite beer ever! Pours like motor oil, with a thick head. The aroma is heavy with chocolate. Very strong taste. Drinking more than one is not recommened.

Dear God its sooooo good! Thanks Greg for hooking me up with this beer! Pours a very dark color, with a minimal head. Smells of vanilla, with dark roast, and a taste out of this world with a complex BAM that hits you. Basically its a party in your nose when you smell it then when you taste it, the party moves downstairs ha! So good....I WANT MORE!!!!

This beer is a little over the top with alcohol. Very stong burn on the way down, but still a very drinkable beer. Nose and taste is almost all alcohol with chocolate and coffee trying to musk it. There is no hiding 18%, but I’d say this beer does a pretty good job of it. Poured ninja black with brown head. Very interesting beer, seems to taste different everytime I drink it. If you dislike an over the top alcohol taste in your beer steer clear of this one!

Smells like someone has spiked it with rubbing alcohol. Tooth-meltingly sweet and harshly bitter simultaneously. Masses of alcohol and rough, disjointed flavours. If I weren’t such an alcy, it would be already be down the sink.

I never imagined that my favorite beer would be a stout from Delaware, but this one knocked me off my feet. I was equally surprised that it was 18% as the alcohol is not overpowering in taste. It’s a sweet, malty beer, and I wish I could buy it in Georgia.

Bottle. Pitch black, almost no head. Raisin and chocolate aroma, plum, figs, fruits, vinous, sherry notes, some blueberry (?), tar, chocolate, sweetish with coffee and cocoa notes. Figs and raisins in flavor, fruits, rather malty, vinous, sweetish chocolate notes, coffee plum and of course rather roasted. Huge body and alcohol is very well hidden. Nice lacing and with a distinct malty fig and raisin finish.

12 oz bottle from a trade with thecheeseman. pours black with a short lived fizzy tan head. aromas are of boozy dark fruit and sweet roasted malts but the alcohol burning the hair out of my nostrils doesnt make up for the niceness that lays beneath it. flavours are insane. probably the best flavour profile ive ever had in a beer but again the alcohol shines through and ruins the party. ok i admit it i drank this very young and if i cellared this it could be way better but i thought what the hell and opened this at least 2 years too early. the next time i get some of this i will cellar it and re-rate it at that time. till then all i can do is tell you what i expeirienced tonight and that was only partially enjoyable.

Looking at a 2003 and 2005 bottle. 03’ has sweet strong malt aroma...tasty body...excellence balance for a imp. stout lover, which I am! There is an aroma of alcohol and it’s in the taste and body, but with the flavors of chocolate, raisins, molassas and some bitter notes, it’s wonderful. 05’ is rougher, grunt, snort...love the older stuff especially.