Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale:
Howdy one and all and welcome back to the best little beer website west of the Trinity River.  Maybe, kinda.  Well it’s a matter of opinion but let’s move on.  Today we get to look at my beer love, my joy, my reason for drinking beer (a good reason, believe it or not): Dogfish Head and now we get to enjoy their Indian Brown Ale, a brown ale that successfully straddles the line between a roasted malt ale and a medium hopped beer.  The beer pours a nice dark brown with an aggressively building off white head of foam that quickly reduces down but leaves decent lacing and a nose of roasted malts and dry hops.  The beer’s initial taste is akin to a pale ale with nicely balanced hop notes while the mid tongue and after taste is heavily dominated by heavily roasted malts that slip in and out of coffee notes and caramel notes with the aftertaste being slightly sour and smooth.  This beer, billed as a Dark IPA by Dogfish, is a bottle of beer that I never gave to much attention too since it’s availability is year round and my focus with them is more on their seasonal or rarity releases.  Boy, am I glad I cracked open this bottle, this is a good beer that can satisfy both the hop heads as well as malt beer lovers and it’s light on the palate despite it’s 7.2% ABV.  Easy to find and it’s worth the purchase of the whole six pack in my opinion, or at least a handful of singles to consume at your leisure.