Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2002 (23%)

Formerly brewed at Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Snifter

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Pours dark brown ad flat. Smells and tastes roasty and chocolatey with lots of booziness and some dark fruity hints on the finish. Didn’t notice any difference between this and the 21% version.

Bottle graciously shared by Keith at STL RB gathering, thanks! This was a great treat. Pour is dusty dark brown with no head at all. Aroma goes on for days and is accented by notes of cocoa powder, light fruitiness, faint roasted maltiness, and a lightly dusty note. This aroma is incredible. Flavor is quite sweet. Notes of roasted malt poking through with hints of dark fruit and burnt brown sugar. This beer is very brandy-like at this point. Quite sweet but hides its alcohol so well. A real treat, I loved it. the 1-1.5 oz serving I had was plenty though. A sipper for sure.

Bottle shared by kwoeltje- thanks a ton, Keith! Pours a murky, dark, deep brown color with no head. Looks dangerous. Aroma of huge dark fruity notes (dates, figs, raisins), molasses, soy, and some booze- tannins really coming through. Flavor of molasses, brown sugar, roasted malts, syrup, ash, and dark fruits. Full-bodied, with a smooth, thick, sweet, chewy mouthfeel and low carbonation. Sweet and rich. Doesn’t seem like 23% ABV, but feels "big" in every way. I liked it just a tad more than the 2009 we had next to it.

Sampled at the StL RB gathering. It poured a dark color with a little head. The aroma was of syrup, berries and a scent of alcohol. The flavor was present but hidden by the sweetness and flavors of raisons. A very good Imperial Stout.

Tasted at 2nd STL Ratebeer Gathering, thanks for sharing a remarkably rare offering! Poured an opaque black color with no head whatsoever. Alcoholic perfume aroma. Profoundly sweet flavor, like a sack mead. I just don’t understand how there is so much sweetness left after the yeast digested up to 23% alcohol. Subtle hints of dark fruit, toffee, burnt toast. Very heavy body, syrupy mouthfeel, medicinal aftertaste. Gave me shivers just like strong liquor. I feel bad looking this gift horse in the mouth. I know it took a feat in brewing science, and is highly sought-after, but it really wasn’t very pleasant. I am nonetheless grateful I got to try it ten years after release.

Sampled at STL RB Gathering - Pours very dark brown with no head. The aroma is very roasty with soy sauce, alcohol, figs, dates, raisins and dark berries. Full / thick body that’s rich and slick with almost no carbonation remaining. The flavor starts off with ltos of molasses sweetness, smooth roast, oiliness, lots of dark fruits from the aroma and brown sugar. The finish keeps the sweetness going. Interesting beer. Didn’t think I’d get to have this version - big thanks to the RBer that shared this.

Sample courtesy of cgarvieuk. Thank you! Reddish black pour. Massive nose, rich sherry fruit, chocolate, booze, oak. Amazingly powerful. Similar flavours, overwhelmingly sweet sherry front, treacle, molasses even, slight roast chocolate malt flavours and a huge boozy warm finish. Wow. Need more of this!

[12floz bottle, courtesy of cgarvieuk] [2002 vintage] Pours brownish/black, no real head to speak of. Thin bubbled lacing. Pure barrel-aged alcohol aroma. Viscous, super sweet, smooth syrupy on the palate. Some barrel oakyness on the flavour. Sweet sherry – it’s like drinking a pillow. Smooth. Figs and more marzipan – really amazing considering how old the beer is, it’s retained all of it’s punch over the years [13012012]

From bottle. Thanks Craig. Pours black with no head. Aroma has huge whiff of alcohol, chocolate. Taste has chocolate and licorice, roasty, dark fruits, fruity alcohol notes. Sweet with an alcohol finish. Could do with being reigned in a bit but very tasty

2002 bottle. Pours a very dark brown colour with a lacy tan head. Lots of alcohol aroma, a little fishy smoke with roasty malt, dark chocolate, caramel and a sake yeast character. Similar flavours with alcohol quite prominent, raisins, figs, roasty malt, chocolate and caramel again. A woody, sherry character also. Mild carbonation and an oily mouth-feel. Nice.

This 2002 vintage is courtesy of the tasting host and now father of two, Douglas. Thanks for this amazing treat and congratulations. It pours super dark void with thin mocha head and some legginess. The aroma is pulsing yumminess with sweet caramel candy, molasses, chocolate, more molasses and smooth sweet chewy maltiness. The taste is smooth yummy sweetness with molasses, sweet maple nectar and some rich maple pancake syrup. It then picks up rich sweet prune juice reduction and chewy rich smooth sweet maltiness. This seems it can’t get much better than this with additional aging. It seems near perfect today. Wow!