Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Dogfish Head World Wide Stout

Wow. Crazy beer.

Poured jet black, has to be the darkest stout I've ever seen! Imagine pouring a black hole into a glass and you get the idea. Medium head that dissipated quickly, intense lacing on the glass. Deep malty, chocolate, coffee smell. First sip is very sweet, almost too sweet. Its immediately apparent that this is a big beer that must have had a very high SG and the residual sweetness makes me think the FG was fairly high. Very full bodied, not chewy but velvety I liked that about it. Next sip I start tasting the malts and chocolate with a coffee aftertaste. Put it down and came back to it 15 min later - The flavors have blended a little more and the alcohol sweetness has taken a backseat, this beer is better when served at about 50-55*F.

Interesting beer, definitely worth trying and I'm looking forward to drinking the other one I bought when the mood strikes me. However, not something I will go out of my way to get again.

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