Dogfish Head 75 Minute IPA:
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.  God I love that line, if you’ve never seen a video of the man do that little intro, then do yourself a favor and YouTube it.  Johnny was my way of dipping my toe into the water of country music and well, I did and subsequent listening to similar artist have shown that country music is more of a live action glamour shot show than music, but that’s a topic for another day.  When I first visited Rehoboth and the Dogfish Head brew pub I noticed almost immediately a banner saying Johnny Cask 75 minute IPA.  Being a literal kid in a candy store, I was overwhelmed by my choices on tap and slipped by the Cask brewed 75 minute IPA and went for the famous 120 minute.  I wish I did do that because after reading about the cask brewed 75 minute, I was really close to drooling.  Well, alas, I got a bottle of the 75 minute IPA (minus the cask) and features a drawing of young Johnny wearing Groucho glasses.  The reason for the disguise? Well, per the bartender, current laws won’t allow them to sell the cask strength brew so they have a disguised Johnny on there as a nice tongue in cheek joke for those in the know.  So how does it pour/smell/taste?  Well, to me, like a 90 minute (the beer is blend of the 60 and 90 minute IPAs with maple syrup) and that is not a bad thing at all seeing how that is probably the best widely available IPA out there.  The nose is a nice subtle grapefruit with a touch of sweet maple and has a nice balanced head that stuck around for a good portion of it’s consumption.  The beer tastes like a slightly toned down 90 minute that has a sweet undertone that only really shows up in the back-end.  Now, per the website, this is distributed in Texas when it’s available so who knows when that is, but something to keep an eye out for.  In the pantheon of Dogfish IPAs, this falls into a tie with Aprihop as the third best IPA out there.