Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Commercial Brewery | Milton, DE, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 68 (logged 157 times)
Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA: 61 (logged 11 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA: 69 (logged 4 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head 75 Minute IPA: 63 (logged 4 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA: 75 (logged 9 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Alternate Takes #4: Barrel-Aged Apricot Farmhouse Ale: 67 (logged 1 time)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Dogfish Head American Beauty: 58 (logged 5 times)
American Pale Ale
Dogfish Head Aprihop: 61 (logged 3 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Beer for Breakfast: 75 (logged 1 time)
Stout
Dogfish Head Beer To Drink Music To '17: 25 (logged 1 time)
American Blonde Ale
Dogfish Head Bière de Provence: 67 (logged 1 time)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Dogfish Head Burton Baton Oak-Aged Imperial IPA: 81 (logged 4 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double, Oak)
Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
Dogfish Head Citrus Squall: 83 (logged 1 time)
American Blonde Ale
Dogfish Head Dragons & Yum Yums: 69 (logged 4 times)
American Pale Ale
Dogfish Head Festina Pêche: 70 (logged 8 times)
Berliner Weisse
Dogfish Head Flesh & Blood IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Fort
Fruit Beer
Dogfish Head Immort Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
American Strong Ale
Dogfish Head Indian Brown Dark IPA: 83 (logged 4 times)
Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale / American Black Ale
Dogfish Head Lupu-Luau IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Midas Touch Ancient Ale: 77 (logged 11 times)
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
Dogfish Head Namaste White: 67 (logged 1 time)
Witbier
Dogfish Head Noble Rot Ale: 72 (logged 3 times)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Dogfish Head Oak Aged Noble Rot: 67 (logged 1 time)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine: 71 (logged 4 times)
Barleywine
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron: 64 (logged 16 times)
Brown Ale (Aged in Barrels)
Dogfish Head Piercing Pils: 63 (logged 5 times)
Czech Pilsner
Dogfish Head Positive Contact Spiced Imperial Wit: 67 (logged 2 times)
Witbier (Imperial / Double)
Dogfish Head Punkin Ale: 73 (logged 7 times)
Pumpkin Ale
Dogfish Head Raison D'Être: 63 (logged 6 times)
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Dogfish Head Raison d'Extra: 71 (logged 2 times)
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Dogfish Head Red & White: 71 (logged 2 times)
Witbier (Oak)
Dogfish Head Robert Johnson's Hellhound On My Ale
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
Dogfish Head Rosabi
American Pale Ale (Imperial / Double)
Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale: 67 (logged 3 times)
Wild Ale
Dogfish Head Siracusa Nera: 79 (logged 2 times)
Stout
Dogfish Head Sixty-One: 71 (logged 2 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Slightly Mighty: 67 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Squall IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Ta Henket: 50 (logged 2 times)
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
Dogfish Head The First Disguise: 25 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Wood-Aged Bitches Brew: 75 (logged 1 time)
Stout
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout: 79 (logged 8 times)
Stout
Trandoshan Ale: 58 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Wheat Ale

Collaborations

Dogfish Head / Victory / Stone Saison du BUFF (collaboration)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Dogfish Head Birra Etrusca Bronze (collaboration): 61 (logged 3 times)
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
Dogfish Head Kvasir (collaboration): 63 (logged 2 times)
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
Dogfish Head Life and Limb Rhizing Bines IPA (collaboration)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Dogfish Head Saison du BUFF (collaboration): 46 (logged 2 times)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Ecliptic Sagittarius B2N (collaboration): 79 (logged 2 times)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Maui / Dogfish Head Liquid Breadfruit (collaboration): 67 (logged 1 time)
Stout
Sierra Nevada Life and Limb (collaboration)
American Strong Ale
Sierra Nevada Wood-Aged Life and Limb (collaboration)
American Strong Ale (Aged in Barrels, Whiskey)
Victory Saison du BUFF (collaboration)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale

Logs for beers from this brewery

Ruby grapefruit, tangerine; lightly tart but with a very mellow finish. Extremely refreshing, I think - although getting a beer in a frosted glass sometimes messes with my flavor perception.
A lot going on in this beer. Cinnamon, vanilla, and lactose stick out; reminds me of a big sweet Mexican chocolate stout like the Abraxas? Not sure the other ingredients computed for me (but admittedly, I have no idea what breadfruit tastes like).
Yeasty, somewhat tart. I mean, I was in Galaxy's Edge so nothing was going to be too disappointing.
Undrinkable! Intensely flavored, almost like dry cola syrup. Forward sweet, tacky, more unpleasant than the Hubbard’s Cave, which is saying something.
Dry bitter IPA that nevertheless has some of the flavor notes of a juicy IPA.
Can at Home
Sweet and spiced, honestly I think the beer base might be really good, but I don't really like the perfumed spice on top of it.
Harsh and bitter. Which is where I started.
Bottle at Home
Maybe it just gets better the older it gets.
Bottle at Home
Not overly sweet, with more of a vegetable flavor (I'm assuming from the carrot). Like Mike says, it's not very "beery", but I enjoyed it.
Bottle at Home
I don't know man, it's sort of bitter, sort of brackish.
Bottle at Home
Noticeably more sour than the Star Party, with just a touch of funk and a lot of dry lime. A bit of buttery sweetness evens it out. Salty on the lips afterwards. Good flavors.
Bottle at Work
Not sure this tasted at all Kolschey to me. Instead, it just seemed like a sweet IPA which added a weird, additional sweetness (lactic?) onto the finish instead of the typical balancing things a normal IPA does.
Halfway between a pale and a Vienna lager. Fruity, malty and cereal.
Round, cleanly tart and fruity up front. Definitely reminiscent of "dragonfruit flavor" rather than dragonfruit itself. Some berry. Light, pale ale finish. It's tasty and drinkable, but I think the character is more like a radler than a beer beer, you know?
A funky, dry apricot sour, buttery with recognizable fruit. I can't tell if the up-front bitterness is from the funk or from a stronger-than-usual hop presence - my palate was a bit muddy. Loved the first half of the glass but near the end the funk got to be a bit much.
It's like a very limey kolsch. It's fine and refreshing. I wouldn't really call it sour, so much as lime-flavored.
Can at Home
Good, but barely disguised booze. Thick, pungent, sweet, and gets into your head very, very quickly.
Yup. 3 ounces is about the right size for this beer.
Yes, this was very nice. Medium-bodied strong stout, not too roasty, not too umami. Good overtone of grape. Very drinkable. I guess this wasn't actually wine-barreled, but made with the wine, and then aged on oak. Yum!
I can't remember a whole lot about this, sorry, other than it tasted distinctly of hibiscus and I distinctly didn't like it.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Sweet with a spiced undertone. Still kind of like it
Bottle at Home
Creamy, strongly coffee-flavored stout although this has lots in common with lighter cream stouts in flavor; slight sourness, almost smoky light roast. Saved by the thicker mouthfeel and light finish. A very nice beer.
Hints of sweet pie, but curls into a more funky finish. I originally remembered this as very sweet from four years ago, but it's not nearly as sweet or smooth as the Pumking or other recently had pumpkin beers. I found myself wishing it were smoother.
A really interesting pine-hop-citrus-tart flavor, but strangely empty in terms of body - very little malt backbone to give it a refreshing, beery flavor, this was more like essential oils and a bit of water. It's a shame because this flavor profile would add a lot to a good beer.
Belgianish saison with a hint of hops, some vinous funk, and a smoky herbal character that wasn't super-strong but definitely present. I do think the saison format works a lot better for these savory herbs than the usual IPA combinations I've had in the past.
Smells like a scotch, tastes like a scotch, with a touch of sourness.
Wasn't nearly as sweet as I remember. This was actually a very good pumpkin beer on the creamy custard side of the spectrum, as opposed to spice-centric. Always good to have another solid pumpkin choice.
Growler
Middling Amber color. Slight watery fruit scent. It's thick and smooth in the mouth, malty with perhaps a tiny hint of bitter. There is a flavor of some odd spice that I can't identify.
Quite lovely! Lots of bright fruity flavors. Grapefruit, orange, flowers. Low bitterness.
Bottle at Xbeer One
I seem to remember liking this more. It feels understated, maybe it's because of the spicy food I've had.
Intense sweet and hoppy notes hit you up front. Smooth hop on the finish. Yet, a powerhouse. Careful with this one.
Dogfish Head Raison d'Extra (unknown release)
Good mix of sweetness and sourness. Raisins are noticeable mostly in the aftertaste. Especially after having a fee sips. Had a weird faint medicinal flavor though.
Dogfish Head Raison d'Extra (unknown release)
High alcohol starts off hidden but becomes more apparent over time, right at the front of the flavor. There's definitely raisin in here, but the beer is surprisingly mellow in spite of what could have been a cloyingly sweet flavor. Quite good, but small sips!
Boozy fragrance. Tastes like a strong barleywine, with some date-cake fruity sweetness and a nice, smooth finish. Thing is, the booze builds up fast and strong... I wish they had shown some restraint and given us something a little less in-your-face. The flavors are great and deserve it.
Very booze smell with some light pleasing fruit hints. Sweet but not overly so, very boozy particularly near the end. The fig and dates flavors a subtle but present. Very pleasing overall.
Quite powerful smell. Smells of strong alcohol, hop, spices(?) and malt. Surprisingly well balanced for the insanely high ABV. It has clear hops flavors, but it's strong sweetness cover pretty much all the bitterness. Sweetness reminds me a little bit of honey. Wouldn't get more then a taster of this.
Everything I said before still stands.
Astringent alcohol smell on head and vapor present after each taste. Pleasant body but confused with the alcohol. Had a taster, would be willing to try it out again.
Watered down berry--mostly cranberry-- smell. Tart start, quick dry end. Light overall character, buttery finish.
Bottle
Wooded yeasty cereal hop smell. Slightly sharp sweet starting taste, thin body, light hopped finish, more fizzy than hippy. Drinks easily.
Bottle
Vinegary elements to smell. Round sweet starting taste and heady alcoholic follow through. Fig finish.
Bottle
Extremely tart on the nose with a ripe grape note. Sweet and bitter in perfect harmony.
Heavy. Chocolate banana bread on the nose. Intense bitter chocolate on the palate.
Mild hop on the nose. But drinks like a very smooth IPL! So freaking good.
Musky white grape on the nose. Intense dry white wine on the palate. Easily mistaken for white wine.
Smooth. Fruity. Sugary sweet on the nose. Would make a great summer BBQ beer!
Clean and light wooded cereal smell. Good oaked presence mid taste finishes with a woody floral bitterness.
Bottle
Yum. Perfect for today: plenty of cinnamon, not too sweet.
Bottle at Home
Pumpkin bread smell. Caramel and toffee sweetness, warm maltiness, and faint pumpkin at the beginning and finish.
Bottle
From Davis Beer Shoppe. This is...powerful. 12% ABV, tastes like rum/bourbon, and will definitely put hair on your chest. *checks* Yep.
Bottle at Home
Smooth, hints of spice but nothing overpowering.
Bottle at Home
Yummy. A fragrant body with a light middle bitterness. Clean finish.
Draft
Pretty darn sweet although not too heavy. Kind of like a slight lighter flavored but still heavy on the palate mead.
Eight months after purchase. Still intense, still so good.
Bottle at Home
At first, this drinks like a classic saison, but the herbs, while understated, do start poking out in uncomfortable ways. In particular there's a savory turn with the thyme right before the end, and a soapy bitterness afterwards which I assume comes from the parsley. I assume the rosemary faded into the hops and I couldn't detect sage at all. I thought I was going to like it, but in the end I couldn't finish.
Interesting champagne scent. Nice sour effervescence to the taste. Otherwise clear, almost sweet flavor.
Fizzy bright citrus and funky-honey-wheat smell. No matter how you pour it it will foam over. Light body with some tack. Grapeish-fruit overtones to finish.
Bottle
Smells powerfully boozy, like rubbing alcohol with a perfume of hops on top. The flavor is more balanced, while still quite strong - hop juice and a sweetish, almost saturated malt body that don't exactly make it pleasant, but masks the alcohol fairly well. It's still a workout and a little goes a long, long way.
Bottle at Friend's House
Really smooth for an Imperial IPA, not much aroma but tons of flavor on the palate. Full bodied and not very bitter. Vanilla, grapefruit, some resin. Other flavors I can't place. A must-try beer.
Bottle at Home
Aroma of grape, citrus. Tastes of citrus and grape. Lighter/medum bodied with a lighter crisp carbonation. Interesting beer, not bad at all but well outside the normal range of flavors one would expect. A bit bitter and a bit tannic.
Bottle at Home
Meeeeeehhhh.... Very light beer taste with a weird sour peach candy aftertaste. Not a great mix in my opinion.
A lot of wheat funk aroma leads into a beer which feels a lot like a cross between an American Hefe and a peach cider. The tartness is pleasantly acidic but not in your face, and the finish is quite clean. That smell, though.
Bottle tasting
This manages to taste more like a coffee soda than a beer, but still completely works somehow. Really, really yummy.
Bottle at Work
Smells of pine, resin, and apricot. Apricot is subtle and not overpowering. Taste is fruity hops, sweet and not bitter. A minor hint of resin behind. Medium/full bodied. Finish tends towards sweet. The apricot enhances the hops natural flavor, like salt on food, instead of overpowering it.
Bottle at Home
Nice wood character on top of a decent IPA; slightly over-boozy, but still good.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Not bad, well balanced, but nothing special about it either.
Bottle at Home
I love this beer. It's got some a yummy sweetness from the sugar, a depth of flavor from the malt, and a clean finish from the dry hopping.
Bottle at Home
Yeasty musty smell. Sweet spongy hoppy body with a musty sort of finish. Tastes like a pilsner.
Bottle
Musty and savory-sweet, like a medicinal eastern stew that someone decided to serve as a cold beverage. I'm sure there's a place for this "beer," but I'm pretty sure it's not in my mouth.
Funky smell which makes it to the taste. Fruitiness like a light peach. Sweet cereal later on.
Lots of funk fragrance, along with a hint of fruit cider. Flavor is all fruit and hop bitterness, almost to the point where I felt a bit like I was drinking soapy water. I mean, it was definitely okay, but it was weird.
Slight funky smell. Medium body malt with a high-bitter finish. After re-reading the label the bitterness is like that of tea tannins.
Solid cereal body. No strong bitter finish initially but successive drinks go towards a moderate resin like bitterness. Sweet trailings.
This stuff will knock you on your @$$ at 18% ABV - but there's no taste of alcohol at all. Very heavy on the malts but even at 18% has the mouth feel of a lower alcohol beer. Hard to say why as it's not a Belgian, but reminded me most strongly of a Trappiste Rochefort - there's a sweetness reminiscent of candy sugar. Definitely worth a try, but hard to drink more than one due to the richness.
Bottle at Home
Super thick and malty & super-smooth. The depth and purity of flavor without resorting to barreling tricks is astounding. Scary to think how strong it is! Glad I had just a couple ounces.
Really good in a small dose. Very malty (obviously). I thought it would lend itself well to a coffee version.
Lightly viscous mouthfeel, raisin-esque finish. Really pleasant cereal body only slightly marred by a salty mid-tongue effect.
I am broken with IPAs, I guess. Too much resin, too much perfume.
I think I really like this. It's not like most other beers. I think I'm most noticing the saffron, less of the honey and only a hint of the grapes. It smells of a herbal/spice and grapes. I'll give Mike his comment that it's really weird. But again, I think I rather like it.
Bottle at Home
The aroma hints at pear fruit, which might fool one into thinking this is a Festina Peche, but the taste is all pilsner: light, clear with the right level of bitterness. It's much like those beers that shalt not be logged done right.
Bottle at Home
Kind of a yeasty smell with a hint of something that might be raisin. Full mouth-feel. A good flavor but there's nothing that specifically stands out to me (but I haven't had a lot of these darks ales to compare to).
Bottle at Home
Raisin/dried-fruit smell. Somewhat of a salty-sweet raisin taste. Salt gets stronger over the course of the bottle.
Bottle at Home
Pleasant malt cereal and finishes with a sweet hoppiness.
Bizarre beer, with a sweet flavor profile dominated by honey and muscat. The overall feeling is a lot like a Belgian pale, but without the effervescence. Somewhat cloying finish.
Light sweet bodied. Muscat grape is pretty strong in the taste and the honey coating keeps going.
Not bad. There is some apricot scent in the head, and the drink itself is quite smooth. It's actually a good combination of apricot and hop.
Bottle at Home
Wow. It tastes like hard liquor. And not the good stuff. They talk a lot about wood on the label and I'm wondering how much wood alcohol it has.
Bottle at Home
Strong Belgian spice notes that are cleanly cut through by the grape juice and wine flavors. The carbonation peters out rather quickly before a musty finish. I could only imagine myself in a dank cave winecellar as I drank.
Smooth, non-aggressively pumpkin-y ale. Definitely no fake flavors here. The pumpkin isn't quite forward enough for my taste, but then that's what I remember of Dogfish Head flavored beers -- the other tastes reveal themselves best with a complementary food.
Bottle at Home
A floral but not resinous IPA with an unconventional finish, dry and full of maple sugar molasses. All that said, this may still be the least bizarre Dogfish Head beer I've ever had.
Peppery smell. Sappy, tacky sort of finish. Pleasant taste.
Very mellow the third time around, combined with all the caramel complexity from before. I guess this brew really benefits from an extra month in the fridge.
Bottle
Multi-flavored with tones of pomegranate.
Not much like a beer, other than a faint flavor of wheat and some saison-like qualities that opened up over time. Otherwise, the predominant flavors are pomegranate, a medicinal rooty flavor, and some spice.
Like a natural cherry cola but where the cherry's barely there but has the viscosity and concentrated sweet dark flavor of a not-very-sweet cola.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
This was something amazing. It's like having peach juice, with all the sugar removed, and then grafted on an incredibly light and effervescent lager
Brackish and black like an Imperial Stout, with an unexpected wood-sap sweetness and a fairly strong, high-alcohol woody finish. Compare to: Port Old Viscosity Ale.
As delicious as a kick in the pants can be.
Thick taste, sharp smell. 12% Abv, wow. Leaves me wanting water.
On the maltier side of big IPAs, lending a great balance to the big hop flavors. Not the most bitter IPA so it's one I like to offer as an example of big IPAs.
Bottle at Home
Heavy but amazing light finish. As advertised, really heavy on the barley. For some reason this reminded me of dark Belgian's candy sugar flavor. Not the most stout-ey of stout (the primary flavor didn't seem to me from roasted malts). Definitely worth a try - or two.
Bottle at Home
I like IPAs, especially big ones, but this was just too much, too alcoholic and too heavy
Bottle at Home