Midas Touch
(has 5 batches)
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer Regular|
Score
6.91
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This was the first beer in our Ancient Ales series.
This sweet yet dry beer is made with ingredients found in 2,700-year-old drinking vessels from the tomb of King Midas. Somewhere between beer, wine and mead, Midas will please the chardonnay and beer drinker alike.
For years, Dogfish Head has worked with biomolecular archaeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern to bring Ancient Ales to life. For more on Midas Touch and the experience of Penn Museum excavators as they uncovered the tomb of the legendary King Midas, read this essay from Dr. Pat.
This sweet yet dry beer is made with ingredients found in 2,700-year-old drinking vessels from the tomb of King Midas. Somewhere between beer, wine and mead, Midas will please the chardonnay and beer drinker alike.
For years, Dogfish Head has worked with biomolecular archaeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern to bring Ancient Ales to life. For more on Midas Touch and the experience of Penn Museum excavators as they uncovered the tomb of the legendary King Midas, read this essay from Dr. Pat.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Brewers Haven. Clear, medium golden body with a small cap of foamy head. Grainy aroma, malty, reminiscent of some of the emmer or spelt beets in Germany. Taste starts out malty before turning over to some savory, herbal flavors, woody, juniper. I guess the ancient Sumerians had it pretty good...
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2020
at 04:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample after Patrick McGovern talk in Easttown. Clear dark gold colored, medium body. Malt and honey aroma. Saffron bittered taste and acrid finish. No accounting for 700 B.C. tastes, but a real triumph of craft beer making.
Tried
on 19 Oct 2019
at 01:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Lithy, thanks! Orange blonde color. Grapes and flowers in the slightly spicy aroma. Sugary sweet flavor with grapes, honey, mango and just a hint of spices (speculaas). Alcoholic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2019
at 22:50
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottled as 'Midas Touch Ancient Ale ' . Pours clear blonde. Small white head. Smell is malty, mild honey. Taste is full, sharp ( spiced ) malty, tad sweet, honey. not bad at all !
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2019
at 03:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Pours golden amber with a thick white head. Average levels of carbonation. Aroma has grape and melon notes. Taste is extremely sweet, honey notes and light grape notes throughout. Palate contains sweet malt notes, wine-like elements and honey notes on the back of the tongue. Wild drinking experience.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2019
at 01:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
355ml bottle, shared at the Beer Jerk Bunker bottle share, thanks me. Pours orange gold. Honey, booze, slightly solventy, floral, saffron, white grape, slight sour grape thing. Full body. Interesting, don't think I'll ever buy another.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2018
at 07:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
355ml bottle. Minimally milky, orangey golden to amber colour with small to average, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Sweet-ish, herbal, spicy and floral aroma, notes of honey, petals, a touch of marzipan, speculoos, white grapes. Taste is initially sweet-ish, biscuity malty and floral-fruity, notes of speculoos, marzipan, sugar powder, honey, herbal and spicy overtones, later slightly dry, vinous, almost oaky, hints of white grapes. Rich and complex, quite unusual, slightly too sweet overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2018
at 20:00
7/10
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Tried
on 10 Sep 2018
at 09:46
7/10
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Tried
on 10 Sep 2018
at 09:46