Dogfish Head 90 minute Imperial IPA

 Dogfish Head 90 minute Imperial IPA 9% ABV

Appearance:

Orange Amber in colour slightly hazy with a half finger off white head.

Aroma:

Lighter citrus hops more of an orange and light lemon aroma up front. Balance with sweet and caramel malts in the middle, followed up by the slightest hint of roasted malts and hop pine resin. As it warms you get hints of alcohol but barely any at all. Very well balanced.

Taste:

Initial taste is very nice. It starts with balance Grape fruit hop flavour that changes quickly into orange zest and malt flavours. As the flavours settle the hops die down quite a bit but leave a light pine taste like in the aroma. The flavour is then primarily malts, Caramel malt and a slight roasted flavour like in the aroma but goes perfectly with the pine flavour. It finishes with some alcohol warmth at the back of the mouth and some more hops that leave a great dry mouth feel, bitterness and slight orange flavour. As it warms though everything mellows out and the flavour is very well balanced. Despite this there is a little to much alcohol flavour at the end but it isn’t a sweet alcohol taste so the bitterness from the hops kind of masks it just adding to the beer. I really enjoy the flavour profile.

Mouthfeel:

The mouth feel is medium to full bodied. Probably just slightly bellow full bodied. The beer coats the mouth and lets all the flavours linger in a very nice way. The carbonation is a little high and is partially to blame for the alcohol warmth and emphasise at the end. But as it warms and the carbonation dies down the warmth dies down too solving the problem.

Drinkability:

The problem with this beer is if it is served at a temperature just bellow room temperature it is really drinkable for a 9% beer. For people new to the style it may not be quite the same, due to not being used to certain flavour profiles that change from a regular IPA to an Imperial IPA, however all in all for the style I would say very drinkable indeed. The only off put I would give the beer is the slightly too much alcohol finish but other than that it is a very good Imperial IPA.

Style:
Appearance:  8.5/10
Aroma:          9/10 

Taste:            8.5/10
Mouthfeel:     8.5/10
Drinkability:   9/10
Overall:        8.7 /10

Personal Peference: 9/10 highly recomended

-The Ass