Pennsylvania Tuxedo
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.05
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A spruce-infused pale ale, Pennsylvania Tuxedo pays homage to the flannel-suited hunters and gatherers who dwell deep in the backcountry of north-central PA.
Brewed in collaboration with family-run outdoor clothing company Woolrich, Pennsylvania Tuxedo is a sessionable concoction with a grassy citrus kick complemented by the resinous conifer notes of fresh green spruce tips. We went into the forests of north-central Pennsylvania and Georgetown, Del., to pick these fresh tips ourselves.
A dry yet doughy malt backbone lets the hops and spruce shine while still balancing out the bitterness, making this one an easy sipper.
Brewed in collaboration with family-run outdoor clothing company Woolrich, Pennsylvania Tuxedo is a sessionable concoction with a grassy citrus kick complemented by the resinous conifer notes of fresh green spruce tips. We went into the forests of north-central Pennsylvania and Georgetown, Del., to pick these fresh tips ourselves.
A dry yet doughy malt backbone lets the hops and spruce shine while still balancing out the bitterness, making this one an easy sipper.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught at Willie’s in Los Altos. Aroma is woozy, slight tobacco and tree sap. Pours clear copper with smallish white head. Flavor is overt spruce and pine tree. Interesting and it balances fairly well.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2018
at 21:19
6/10
Too pine like
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jan 2018
at 20:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured from bottle dated 10/6/17 copper with a nice white tan head and nice lacing. Aroma is spruce floral hops and malt. Taste is lightly sweet lingering spruce finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2017
at 17:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz. bottle. Clear copper color, with a very light beige head. Nose is spruce, pine, herbs, floral notes. Taste is spruce, rosemary, pine, caramel malt, citrus. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2017
at 14:02
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Not as outre as most Dogfish Head collaborations, but also somewhat restrained instead of being weird just for the sake of being weird. Tolerance for Pennsylvania Tuxedo depends entirely on your opinion of beer that tastes kind of like how a urinal cake smells. I’m okay with it--make of that what you will--so I find Tuxedo alluring, more of a spruce tip strong ale than an Imperial IPA. Big caramel malt sweetness on one side, piney hop bitterness laced with citrus on the other, both tied together by a bright herbal spruce greenness, minty and forest-like and unexpectedly delicious. Pretty pour, brown-gold with a lasting white cap and heavy lacing. Aroma’s good but misleading, more malt than spruce, not preparing you for the woodsy bonanza once you try the beer. Good texture, lively but slick. Surprised by how much I like this one.
Tried
on 14 Aug 2017
at 16:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Pine and grapefruit aroma. Spruce and light grapefruit flavor with mint. Medium bodied. Spruce and mint linger.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2017
at 23:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle. Unfiltered copper-amber body. Thin, soapy, off-white head. Full bodied, sweet. Spruce, pine. Kind of comes off in more of a sugary gingerbread cookie way than a Barleywine or IIPA. Spruce maintains, hops fade. Unique offering, sort of a Winter Warmer in a way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2017
at 23:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
The beer is a clear copper color with a medium off-white head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of spice, citrus and malt. Medium body with flavors of piney hops, spice and malt. The finish is resiny hops and nutmeg. Decent overall.
Tried
on 23 May 2017
at 15:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On at at Berts Growler Garage, Ontario. Clear light orange amber. Of white head. Muted but full hop flavors. Decent bitterness. Smooth and clean for a double. Some woody light toast malts. A littel sprucey but subtle. Very good.
Tried
from Growler
on 25 Apr 2017
at 14:54
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at McKay's, pours a hazy copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out herbal spices, piney hops and toasted biscuity malt. Flavour brings out loads of spruce tips, piney hops and biscuity malt. Very herbal on the finish. Not good at all.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2017
at 12:30