Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA:
Ahem.  Order, order in the court of beer.  Today, I bring before you what is possibly the single best bottle of beer in America.  This beer is highly sought after by hop heads and beer afficandos alike.  Though this beer is of the variety that sends many average beer drinkers running for the hills, those brave (or curious) enough to try it have been wowed by it’s nose, it’s flavor and it’s rich color.  My friends, I speak of the hard to find bigger brother of my favorite beer Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, and that brother is their 120 Minute IPA. To know the awesomeness of this beer, you need to understand what this beer is, which is hopped beyond hoppiness, hopped more than a rabbit going cross country. This beer is hopped for 2 full hours (hence the 120) while being boiled with high alpha American hops, dry-hopped every day while in fermentation for a month and then aged for a month on whole leaf hops.  Yeah, wow.  How does it taste?  Like a ripe grapefruit which has been puréed with a strong ale then mixed with something flowery.  That’s the best way I can describe it in a short and concise, the long description would basically have a new description with every sip and I don’t guzzle this, it’s at least 19% ABV, more like 20%.  The sad thing about this is it’s lack of availability here in Texas.  I’ve heard  several different reasons to this including the high alcohol content per bottle to the sheer small size of the batches.  This batch, vintage 2008 is a nice ripe age of 4 years and could age another 6 and be even more amazing.  How’d I come across this bottle you ask?  Well after planning a work trip to Delaware and Rehoboth Beach which is home to the brew pub for Dogfish I drank my first glass of this and quickly inquired in the was any to purchase, a 4 pack later (really a suitcase full of beer later) I was back in Texas and distributed two of my four pack to friends.  So there you go, what is possibly the greatest beer in America and I was lucky enough to have had it twice.  A great way to start May off, expect big things this month friends.