Dogfish Head Immort Ale:
Greetings dear hearts and welcome to a testament to beer craft itself.  Yes friends today we look at a beer that makes us not only happy we drink beer but wonder why there aren’t more beers like this in the world.  So lets get the obvious out of the way first: this beer is from Dogfish Head and I think my admiration for this beer maker is well documented and now, lets look at their Immort Ale.  This English Strong Ale takes maple syrup, peat-smoked barley, juniper berries, and vanilla and then aged in oak tanks to make one delicious beer.  The beer pours a nice copper color with minimal head of foam, no lacing, and a nose of vanilla and smoke.  The beer’s taste starts with a nice subtle caramel flavor that moves to a sweet vanilla mid tongue that carries smoke and floral notes with a nice oak addition on the back end of the tongue while the aftertaste is a nice mellow bend of oak and sweet notes of vanilla.  So this is not a beer that will knock off my favorite DF beer but this definitely vaults itself into the top five in their line.  Now the sad part: this isn’t available here in the Lone Star state (I got mine up in Delaware) but there maybe hope of this making it’s way down here sometime.  How do I know?  Faith, people.  Faith.