Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Slightly Mighty

Slightly Mighty

 

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Session New England / Hazy Rotating
Score
6.33
ABV: 4.0% IBU: 30 Ticks: 52
Mighty hop character and just 95 calories … that can’t be possible. Oh, but it is! After a year of R&D and months of fine-tuning what seemed to be unimaginable, Slightly Mighty is finally here! This true indie craft beer has all the character of a world class IPA, but with only 95 calories, 3.6g carbs, 1g protein and 0g fat per 12oz serving. Seriously.

But how? Digging deep into our culinary roots, we found our answer in an ancient Chinese delicacy - monk fruit. Sweeter than sugar per ounce, monk fruit amplifies the body and complexity of the beer, yet contains no calories. Whereas most IPAs start with a formidable malt bill to balance hoppy bitterness with malty sweetness, Slightly Mighty goes about it a different way – all through the magic of monk fruit. Most light beers are watery and lack body, but with Slightly Mighty, the monk fruit essentially acts as the beer’s skeleton, on which mighty hop muscle and flavor can be built. It allows us to reduce the malt bill and avoid any unnecessary unfermentable sugars, and consequently deliver a beer that is lower in calories and carbs, and perfectly balanced.

The result is a hazy gold lo-cal IPA that throws tropical notes of pineapple, coconut, mango and citrus, all while delivering an aromatic hoppiness that makes it oh-so drinkable. Brewed with ‘lo-cal’ly grown malted barley, Slightly Mighty is dynamic and crisp with a refreshing hop profile.
 

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7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce can into signature tulip glass, canned on 4/23/2019. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big lightly tart/tangy monk fruit, red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, mango, honeydew melon, red apple, passion fruit, berries, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, monk fruit, and moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big lightly tart/tangy monk fruit, red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, mango, honeydew melon, red apple, passion fruit, berries, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Taste of big lightly tart/tangy monk fruit, red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, mango, honeydew melon, red apple, passion fruit, berries, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness; and slight fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of monk fruit, red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, mango, honeydew melon, red apple, passion fruit, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, monk fruit, and moderate pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance; and zero astringent hop flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly crisp/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4%. Overall this is a delicious session IPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, monk fruit, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish; not aggressive. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Feels like Simcoe/Amarillo as with the minute IPAs. Extremely vibrant, dank, earthy, and fairly juicy hop complexity; with a great clean pale malt backbone. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp drying. A very enjoyable offering. Extremely impressive style example for the calories/ABV as expected.
Tried from Can on 30 Jun 2019 at 15:19

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
12oz can. Had it on tap but it is deep in the backlog. Medium bodied, sort of boring, but a little more depth than a typical Session IPA, and a little less hop centered. Monk fruit isn't a familiar tone, but works rather well here...it isn't dominating or overly artificial like most fruited IPA creatures. OK, unique enough...though I'd call it a fruit beer, as the hop tone is rather mild.
Tried from Can on 26 Jun 2019 at 03:56

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can from Craft Brewed. Pours a clear gold with a finger of foam that dissipates. Light stone fruit aromas with cereal grain and grassy, floral hop aromas. Easy drinking but a bit watery and thin on the palate. More light fruit notes (monk fruit I suppose) on the palate. Lingering mineral and grassy bitterness on the finish. A bit light, but enjoyed with dinner.
Tried from Can on 18 Jun 2019 at 02:04

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
From a 12 oz. can. Pours a clear gold with a white head. Citrus and grass aromas. Flavors are mild bitter citrus. Okay for pounding sixers at bbq’s.
Tried from Can on 13 Jun 2019 at 20:57

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
2,000th rating! Pours an amber from a can, lots of lacing. Aroma of sourdough and biscuit, similar flavor. Not as thin as many other SIPAs. Okay beer.
Tried from Can on 05 Jun 2019 at 00:12

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
Crisp deep golden and light copper tinted body with a nice, relatively thin, single centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of grass, hay, resin, light pine and a dose of light caster sugar. Light-bodied, of course; Strong grassy and herbal funk at first with a very dry malt profile showing some biscuits and grain and a touch of lemon and citrus noticeable towards the end, but all fairly dry and a bit of hop and bitterness noticeable. Aftertaste shows a dry but noticeable herbaecous malt profile with biscuits and grain and a touch of grass, light nuts and earthiness and ending with a faint sweetness from caramelised sugars. Overall, a decent enough Light IPA that shows some nice dry and slightly bitter profiles, but not enough complexity or depth and especially dank bitterness that I'd expect from the style. Nice to sample and not a bad option, but not worth trying to find. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Harris Teeter in Arlington (Potomac Yard), Virginia on 30-May-2019 for US$1,87 sampled a day later at home in Washington on 31-May-2019.
Tried from Can on 01 Jun 2019 at 18:40

7/10
Tried from Draft on 18 May 2019 at 14:20

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
$2.00 can, Beer Run. Pours gold with an inch of off-white head. Aroma is slight citrus, light bread. Flavor is green grasses, citrus zest, bitter berry, alka-seltzer.
Tried from Can on 05 May 2019 at 23:36

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft pour at The Barking Dog. Clear golden yellow color with a medium sized white head. Aroma had a little bit of that DFH sweetness, but the lower alcohol really helps mask some of those more unpleasant notes. Light crispness, light grassy notes. Pretty tasty, with a decent lower ABV. Starting to hope these lower ABV beers are a trend because I'm ready for it.
Tried from Draft on 28 Apr 2019 at 07:36

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Grass nose. Clear golden, medium head. Grass and biscuit. Light body, easy carbonation.
Tried on 20 Apr 2019 at 19:53