Raison D'Etre
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.07
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A deep mahogany, Belgian-style brown ale brewed with beet sugar, raisins and Belgian-style yeast.
We began brewing this one at our pub in 1996 (we began packaging and selling it sometime in 1998) as the answer to the question, "What beer should I enjoy with a wood-grilled steak?" Raison D'Etre fits the bill. It's as tasty and complex as a fine red wine.
In the Quick Sip Clip video, Sam talks about Raison D'Etre inside the new cellars for our 600-bbl fermentation tanks. The cellars were designed specifically to allow sterile yeast management. The system also allows us to automatically dose the yeast into the fermentation tanks. At Dogfish, we use multiple strains of yeast for our different beers, so we are acutely aware of all that can go wrong when you don't love and protect the yeast.
We began brewing this one at our pub in 1996 (we began packaging and selling it sometime in 1998) as the answer to the question, "What beer should I enjoy with a wood-grilled steak?" Raison D'Etre fits the bill. It's as tasty and complex as a fine red wine.
In the Quick Sip Clip video, Sam talks about Raison D'Etre inside the new cellars for our 600-bbl fermentation tanks. The cellars were designed specifically to allow sterile yeast management. The system also allows us to automatically dose the yeast into the fermentation tanks. At Dogfish, we use multiple strains of yeast for our different beers, so we are acutely aware of all that can go wrong when you don't love and protect the yeast.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle bought @ Kihoskh. Pours tiny hazy reddish brown with a rather small frothy and bubbly goldenish beige head that leaves some spotty trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sweet and fruity with sweet dark bread, caramel, raisins, moist wood, soil, hay, St Johns wort and caramelized orange peal. Taste is sweet, slightly bitter, slightly malty and fruity with sweet dark bread, caramel, cereal, banana, raisins, liquorice root, moist wood, orange peal and ash. Mouthfeel is round, tiny astringent, tiny sparkling and medium bodied. Finish is sweet, bitter and fruity with sweet dark bread, raisins, hay, soil, bread spices and orange peal. Quite allright...
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2014
at 12:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thx to _angst_ cons 2014-10-28 Göteborg AR: rasins, plum cake, wee yeasty, dried brittish fruits AP: hazy mahogny, frothy fizzy creamy dark beige head F: thin feeling, belgian yeasty, dutch waffel cakes, rasins
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2014
at 12:21
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Thank you Martinus! Tasting glass from 355 ml. bottle consumed @ “The Tasting formerly known as Mons RBBAG I (2014)”. Copper amber brown, little head. Sweet caramel, raisin, syrupy, tad molasses nose,.. Taste is thick malt, sweetish sugar, caramel, candy, raisin, dark fruit, almost tad barley wine malt feel to it, sweet sugar. Thick malty body. This is quite delicious stuff, pleasant surprise for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2014
at 08:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Clear dark amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, candy sugar and yeasty. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish with warming alcohol. 280714
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2014
at 11:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 8%. Clear dark brown with small tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, oak, yeast, dark fruits and a little plume. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, oak, wood, yeast, dark fruits, plume, little chocolate, sweet and toasted, candy sugar and a little bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2014
at 11:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Reviewed from notes and this is my last DFH beer until I can get back East.
Countless times this has been poured into snifters and chalices and it has always looked the same and smelled the same.
The appearance was a nice hazy dark brown close to black color with a nice one finger white to off white foamy head that dies within a minute. There was some light lacing sticking around the sides of the glass.
The smell started off with the raisins and then allowed some nice spicy Belgian spices to settle over top of the beer.
The taste took those flavors and added a light lingering breadiness about it.
On the palate, it sat about a medium in body and allowed a decent sessionable quality about it.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good Belgian Strong Ale worthy of having again. Now I guess I gotta get back to the East Coast.
Countless times this has been poured into snifters and chalices and it has always looked the same and smelled the same.
The appearance was a nice hazy dark brown close to black color with a nice one finger white to off white foamy head that dies within a minute. There was some light lacing sticking around the sides of the glass.
The smell started off with the raisins and then allowed some nice spicy Belgian spices to settle over top of the beer.
The taste took those flavors and added a light lingering breadiness about it.
On the palate, it sat about a medium in body and allowed a decent sessionable quality about it.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good Belgian Strong Ale worthy of having again. Now I guess I gotta get back to the East Coast.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jun 2014
at 04:42
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared @ weekly tasting. Clear red-brown color, full sized off-white head. Aroma is malts, sweetness, lightly alcohol. Taste malts, some sugar, sweetness, some alcohol. Medium body and carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2014
at 15:28
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ benzai. Dark amber to brown colour with a medium sized off-white head. Smells barleywine, sweet, hops, ’round’, nice. Tastes sweet, hops, barleywine, pretty damn nice. full body, soft carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2014
at 15:24