Monday, October 20, 2008

Dogfish Head Brews

Sweet T and I recently went to Dogfish Head Brewery in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and had a great time. DFH bills itself as: Off-centered ales, for off-centered people... that's what they do at Dogfish Head! Whether it's weird ingredients, super-strong extreme beers, or crazy, made-up styles, you can be sure that a beer from Dogfish will challenge your perceptions of what beer is supposed to be!
They make, bottle and keg most of their beer in a Milton, Delaware brewery but they also have a small brewery inside their Rehoboth Beach, Delaware brewpub. That's where they do the experimental batches - the funkiest of the funky!
I had a Palo Santo Marron (Holy Tree Brown) that's an unfiltered, unfettered, unprecedented brown ale aged in handmade wooden brewing vessels. The caramel and vanilla complexity unique to this beer comes from the exotic Paraguayan Palo Santo wood from which these tanks were crafted. Palo Santo means "holy tree" and it's wood has been used in South American wine-making communities. This beer is a 12% abv, highly roasty, and malty brown ale aged on the Palo Santo wood. At 10,000 gallons each, these are the largest wooden brewing vessels built in America since before Prohibition.
I also had a Indian Brown Ale: IBA which is so so so good. It is Availabile: Year-Round.
A cross between a Scotch Ale, an I.P.A., and an American Brown, this beer is well-hopped and malty at the same time. It is brewed with Aromatic barley and caramelized brown sugar.
7.2% abv /50 ibu. Tasting Notes: Notes of molasses, coffee, ginger, raisinettes, chocolate.
I had a sample of Midas Touch which is crafted after a recipe derived from 2700 year old drinking vessels discovered in the tomb of King Midas, This was a smooth, sweet, yet dry ale residing between wine and mead. @ 12IBU/9% ABV.

I was looking to try Theobroma, which is brewed with Aztec cocoa powder, cocoa nibs, honey, chilies and annatto dating this brew back to 1200 B.C. with 10IBU/10%ABV but they were sold out.

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