Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Dogfish Head World Wide Stout:
Hello! Welcome to your place for all that is Dogfish Head.  Yes friends it is time that we return to that great brewery that stole my heart (and if reader reaction is the stander, stole y’alls too) and today we return to it and it’s wonderful brews.  Once again we look at one (yes, one) of their stouts and what a stout character it is (ha!).  World Wide Stout is a beer that is proud of it’s origins and it’s ingredients,  hell, even on the label it says that it’s “brewed with a ridiculous amounts of barley” and while I can’t attest to the fact that it does have an obscene amount of barley in the nose and taste and it is very strong in the barley area- I guess that does count for an obscene amount, doesn't it?  The beer pours a midnight black and seems very syrup like with really no head to speak of (which is par for the course on stouts) but a nose that is more like a whiskey stout than anything else.  The beers taste starts off with a strong caramel taste of roasted malts that move into a blend of coffee and dark chocolates with a strong liquor back.  The back end is a heavy syrup like consistency that keeps the coffee flavor with an after taste of roasted malts and the heavy mouth feel is still there, leaving a coating on the tongue and inner cheek.  This is a great stout, though I think it doesn’t edge out the Buried Hatchet Stout from earlier this year for best stout.  Still really good and very drinkable as an after dinner beer and, if you’re lucky enough to find one.
 

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