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

Strong scent of alcohol and coffee/chocolate. The appearence is very dark with little head. While the smell is of strong alcohol, the taste is much different. It tastes a bit sugary and goes down very very smooth. The aftertaste is sweet as well. There is a very good job of hiding the alcohol taste. You certainly feel it after a short while though.This is absolutely a sipping beer.

2005 Bottle from Bodega’s in Lacrosse. Poured an oily black. Almost overpowering smell of alcohol. Tasted much better than it smelled. Very good taste. Sipping beer. Feels like you’re drinking a wine more than a beer. Would buy again to sip on but a little too strong to have a regular basis.

Purchased at Bodega Brewpub in La Crosse Wisconsin. 2005 variety. Pours a very dark black with thick brown short lasting head. Aroma of roasted grain and strong alcohol. Taste of sweet grainy goodness, slight bite of hop, and strong aftertaste of alcohol. Great amount of flavor that hides alcohol as well as it could. Delicious beer. Would buy again any time. Gets better every sip. haha. wow.

2007 12 oz. bottle poured into a snifter. Pours a jet black with clear edges ( when held up to light ) with no head and no lace. Make no mistake about it, this is a sipping beer. This is a malt bomb. Thick and syrupy and heavy on the alcohol. A once in a great while treat, but to over the top to want to drink on a regular basis.

bottle poured into a snifter is a brown bordering on black that had some transparency when held to the light. carbination is virtually non existent and there was a light layer on the surface that disappeared all together after a few minutes. aroma definitely has some alcohol in it that takes a minute initially to see through, roast bordering on smoke, heavy malt, caramel sweetness, some underlying dark fruit, and really smells of a port more than a beer. taste can only be slowly sipped as it is an immediate assault on the taste buds. starts with alcohol, smoke and roasted wood, dark fig and raisin like fruit, definitely has a good dose of sweetness, and finished with some burning warmth and bitterness. i guess this is about the extremes of brewing right here, not sure if an imperial stout classifies this correctly either. glad i tried this one once but not sure about returning again at the price per bottle it is a little absurd.

I enjoyed this with the perfect balance of malt and alcohol and how it settles with a warm shot of bourbon. This is one to cellar for further research and discovery of how this massive beer holds up.

Way too syrupy. This beer lays it on real thick. Taste of choclate and alcohol. One beer acquired a fast buzz but that is the only thing going for this beer. The beer cannot be sipped at room temp. :(

I don’t quite get all the fuss surrounding this beer. It tasted and smelled as if I were drinking laquer thinner.