Dogfish Head Midas Touch Golden Elixir

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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Pours a sparkling looking "golden" color. The muscat grapes are effervescent, musty with a hint of vanilla. I found a tulip glass really let the aromas pop out. Complex flavor; I notice the Chardonnay like grape profile the most. The honey comes through as it lingers in the taste buds. It has a dryness much like a wine. Has a sweetness that I’m sure is due to a healthy pitch of saffron. The carbonation is lively and tongue tingling. I give this beer extra props for being so different. A wonderful ancient recipe. I can certainly see this not appealing to the masses, but If you’re tired of IPA clone #150 then I would say seek this one out.

Poured into a dogfish signature glass. Color is a golden tint with about two and a half fingers of white head. The beer is very carbonated. The taste is very sweet. You can really detect the grape flavors and this beer almost leans towards a white wine. Despite this beer’s unique flavor it is one of my favorite DFH offerings. I highly recommend this beer to anyone.

This beer had the benefit(?) of sitting in an office in the Christchurch red zone for a good year or so, undisturbed by anything except more aftershocks. Now it sits in a glass on the table looking golden, benign with sparkling carbonation and the makings of a whitish head. If only this beer could tell a tale. Smells of candy sugar, plump juicy sultanas and of a dozen kinds of juicy lollies from a jar. This smells incredibly pleasant. While not complex (or too complex for my appreciation) this smells just gorgeous. The flavour is richer and puts me in mind of a cross between a late harvest wine and a lighter kind of Pinot Noir. Then it becomes that candy store sweetness again; rich and mellow, golden and honeyed. This beer is remarkable, one of those ones that you sit and think about, drawing a dozen conclusions before taking your next sip and changing you mind all over again. As I mull it over the flavours develiop a certain blood orange juicy quality, maybe a bit of pink grapefruit and sherbet. It certainly is enduring (more sultana, muscatele raisin etc). Just wow. If you have a bottle, my advice would be to age this for a couple of years before opening. Mind you, it would be interesting to do a linear tasting of this ale.

Bottle pours medium orange with a white head. Aromas are sweet and spicy grainy and bready. Tastes are grape, grass, spice, and the finish is dry. Overall, interesting but not my thing.

355ml bottle. Pours a medium gold, with a white head. Fruity aroma, malt, citrus, hops, caramel, peach, raisins. Off-dry, medium body and bitterness, balanced CO2. Fruity, slightly yeasty taste, quite spicy, malt, citrus, earth, apricot, dried fruits. (2012-04-30)

From the bottle poured a golden brew with a thin white head. Fruity aroma. Medium bodied with flavors of malt and a touch of amaretto.

Bottle. I suppose I should have expected it to be golden based on the name. Smells to me like honey and wine with a chalky quality and a hint of grain. I’m not getting the saffron. Sweet but not cloying, counterbalanced with a dryness. Medium-bodied, pretty carbonated, slight sweet finish. Decent.

Tap. Pours clear yellow with average, creamy white head; short retention and spare lacing. Aroma is citrus fruit, biscuit malt, floral hops, light pine, and and faint yeast. Flavor is sweet malt forward with good supporting fruit esters and faint hops; dry, semi-sweet finish. Light/medium body, medium carbonation, and medium warmth.

Pours a golden honey-like color into my glass with no head at all. Aroma of grapes, honey and saffron, taste follows the nose, tasty and fairly easy to drink for what it is. I couldn’t drink this every day but man is this a nice treat. A great beer overall

A - Pours a cloudy orange-yellow with a thin layer of frothy white head. The head fades down at a normal pace leaving behind a touch of lace. S - Aroma mix of sweet honey and grapes, saffron and other spices, and some bready flavors. There is a touch of lemon and some tartness as well. T - Starts off with sweet honey and white grape with some tartness and a touch of earthy flavors. Through the middle, some saffron and other spices come through with a bit of bready malt flavor. The finish is a mix of sweet honey and white grape with some earthy spices, and a bit of bready flavor. M - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth with a sweet, tart, and dry finish. D - Very drinkable. Really interesting mix of flavors, but the beer as a whole is nicely balanced. The sweet flavors are a bit bold, but there are a lot of other flavors to balance.

Pours like a light lager, pale yellow and little head. The nose is of honey and sweet fruits. The taste was very dry and bitter with heavy taste of spoiled (corked) wine and vinegar. Not very pleasant to me.