Dogfish Head Altar Boy

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Milton, Delaware USA

Style: Abbey Dubbel | Ratings: 5 | Special Seasonal | Alcohol: 7%

Alter Boy is a Belgian Dubbel that is being aged in Bourbon barrels, it will be 7% alc. when finished. It’s a very balanced malty beer that uses Belgian Pilsner, Biscuit, Munich, Special B, and Vienna malts, as well as Belgian Candi Sugar in the recipe. The Bourbon barrels will add notes of oak, bourbon, vanilla and caramel that will really complent the the maltiness of the beer. The beer has been aging in the barrels for over a month and has really come together nicely.

The beer was the brainchild of Dogfish brewer Wayne Milford. He came up with the idea by trying to find something off-centered that would complement one of his favorite beer styles (Belgian Dubbel). Wayne had some bourbon barrels that he’d picked up a while ago and had never used them so he figured that he’d give them a whirl with this beer. Wayne said, "I thought that by aging the beer in bourbon barrels I would get flavors and aromas that would really hold their own, but also not overpower an already complex style of beer."

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Malt
caramel, bread, hay, cereal, chocolate, coffee, nuts, toast, roasty

Hops
resin, floral, grass, spruce, citrus, herbs

Yeast/Bacteria
dough, barnyard, cheese, basement aromas, leather, earthy, leaves

Other
alcohol, banana, bubblegum, butterscotch, clove, cooked vegetables, cough drop, ginger, licorice, raisin, rotten eggs, soy sauce, skunky, smoke, vanilla, woody