Tasting: Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA

•Name- Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA
•Variety- Double IPA
•Region- Delaware
•Country- United States
•Year- 2011 Bottle Date
•Price- $7-12 Per Bottle Dependent on shop
•Shop/wine critic/winery review- Too extreme to be called beer? Brewed to a colossal 45-degree Plato, boiled for a full 2 hours while being continuously hopped with high-alpha American hops, then dry-hopped daily in the fermenter for a month & aged for another month on whole-leaf hops!!! Our 120 Minute I.P.A. is by far the biggest I.P.A. ever brewed! At 20% abv and 120 ibus you can see why we call this beer THE HOLY GRAIL for hopheads!
•Your review- This is not the first time I have had 120 minute IPA, but just drank another bottle over the weekend so I figured I would give it a review. Upon first pour the nose of this beer is quite evident in that it is a very sweet and hoppy smell, but the high alcohol content was also very evident from the nose. The color of this beer was nearly perfect for me in terms of other IPA's I have observed, the slightly golden color but also with a orange hint to it, which makes it quite gorgeous. Then I took a taste of it, and I have very mixed feelings about the beer. The taste is very sweet and the hops are somewhat evident, but at the end of the taste you can really notice the alcohol. Once the beer warmed up some it was slightly less noticeable and quite a bit better. Overall I really did enjoy this beer, but as with other Dogfish Head beers I have had, they tend to overdo it on the alcohol content.
-I did not have food with this beer.