Higher Math
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Rotating Out of Production|
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6.54
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Way back in the early ’90s, a 20-something waiter in New York City named Sam got a taste for small American “microbrews.” A do-er, Sam stopped by a homebrew store and embarked on the first batch of his very own beer. On the way home, he spotted a bag of cherries at his local bodega and thought they’d make his beer a little more interesting.
He was right, and the day after he and his friends enjoyed that first batch, he started researching what it would take to open a brewery.
The rest, as they say, is history. Higher Math is a tribute to that auspicious first beer and celebrates 20 off-centered years of Dogfish Head. It’s a golden strong ale fermented with sour cherry juice and cocoa nibs and clocks in at 17% ABV.
Higher Math has forward notes of cherries, pineapple and stewed fruit, with late notes of cocoa. It has a lingering sweetness and a notable warmth from the alcohol.
He was right, and the day after he and his friends enjoyed that first batch, he started researching what it would take to open a brewery.
The rest, as they say, is history. Higher Math is a tribute to that auspicious first beer and celebrates 20 off-centered years of Dogfish Head. It’s a golden strong ale fermented with sour cherry juice and cocoa nibs and clocks in at 17% ABV.
Higher Math has forward notes of cherries, pineapple and stewed fruit, with late notes of cocoa. It has a lingering sweetness and a notable warmth from the alcohol.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle. Pours a hazy deep amber with a caramelly off-white head. Overripe fruit aroma with the sugary sweetness of Dogfish Head’s other high alcohol beers. Overripe raisin flavor, red apple, and syrupy soy cocoa sweetness. You know, despite their extreme sweetness, these Dogfish Head beers usually somehow end up being tasty. But this one didn’t; at least not for me. It’s not awful, but it leans a bit in that direction.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2015
at 03:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle. Pours a mostly clear reddish purple color with a tiny white head. A huge sticky sugary flavor. Cherries, brown sugar, chocolates. The beer is super sticky sweet, a bit of strawberry, cherries. Hmm. This isn’t offensive really. But it is pretty much a chocolate covered cherry- and I like those. Not hot but very boozy. I like it. Had a 18% beer last night, a 17% tonight!
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2015
at 01:30
4/10
Tried
on 17 Dec 2015
at 17:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle pours up with a near clear amber to ruby red colored body that supports a thin light tan head. The aroma offers up sweet fresh raisins, figs and prune like fruitiness to go along with a sweet maltiness, a dash of nectar sweet maltiness, molasses, a dab of biscuit like malts and toffee and then firm booziness at the end of the draw. The taste delivers big smooth brown sugar coated and molasses drizzled raisins and prunes as well as some smooth deep nectar like malts blended with cherries. Riding above all of the various sweetness is a thin cloud of milk chocolate. At times it gets a bit peppery as the booziness hits. This just might pull off a Raison D Extra yumminess with a few years in the cellar. Still, right now this is a nice sweet sipper with plenty going on here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2015
at 21:38
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle thanks to rick. Pours out a copper amber topped with a small ring of a head. Nose is odd lots of booze some burning plastic and cherries. Taste is herbal some fruit and heavy booze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2015
at 19:42
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle from Bert’s Hazy reddish auburn with a couple of floaties and a smallish bubbly white head that dissipates quickly. Cherry liquor with lots of alcohol on the nose, almost a vinegar thing going on as well. Down the gullet and holy shit what the hell is that. Cherry syrup with lots of alcohol burn and flavor. Light brown sugary malt flavor deep in the background. Horribly sticky sweet flavor with only the alcohol burn to counter it. Gritty and syrupy mouthfeel if that’s possible. Almost feels like eating powdered cake mix. This didn’t work for me, I don’t think age would fix it either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2015
at 19:59
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Sampled on draft at 99 Bottles this beer poured a red-orange-brown color with a medium sized foamy white head that faded quickly and left decent lacing. The aroma was sweet and boozy with pineapple, sugar and pine. The flavor was intense and quite boozy with sugar, syrup, pineapple, pine, cupcake and frosting. Very long finish. Full body. Astoundingly boozy but it works. Lovely.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Dec 2015
at 11:24
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Associated, Bushwick Brooklyn: pours copper with a white head. Aroma is booze, sugar, cherries, fruit syrup. Taste is boozy and thick. Body is syrupy. Taste has very light sourness. Some wood up in there. I mean it is drinkable and I drank about three fifths of the bottle, but it is also kind of pointless. Whatever.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2015
at 13:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home sipped slowly while watching excellent Meru. Rosy brown pour small head. Nose is cherry light chocolate hot boozy medicine. Tastes of much the same chocolate is more subdued than cherry also get chewy fig and brandy. Strong stuff but fit the time of day film and situation quite well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2015
at 22:52
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours ruby tinged mahogany into a snifter. Tan head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet summer fruit, hot varnish, and rotted cherry aromas. Sweet, thick berry and pit fruit cough syrup front to back and into the burning cloying cherry finish. Not a fan.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2015
at 20:59