Bitches Brew
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.65
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Featuring the album's iconic artwork, created by the late Mati Klarwein, on its label, Dogfish Head's Bitches Brew was unveiled at SAVOR, An American Craft Beer & Food Experience, on June 5, 2010, at the National Building Museum, Washington DC.
Haven't experienced the Bitches Brew album? Two 40th anniversary editions of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew -- a Legacy Edition and a deluxe Collector's Edition -- are available.
According to Dogfish founder and president Sam Calagione, the ale is "the ultimate partner for chili or spicy curry chicken" and best enjoyed "sipped cool, not cold, from a snifter or red wine glass while listening to the Bitches Brew album."
Sam was drawn to the alchemical spirits in Bitches Brew right out of college, acquiring a copy of the album "within months of the first time I brewed a batch of homebrew in my apartment in New York City. I listened to it when I was writing my Dogfish business plan. I wanted Dogfish Head to be a maniacally inventive and creative brewery, analog beer for the digital age. You could say that my dream was to have Dogfish Head, in some small way, stand for the same thing in the beer world that Bitches Brew stands for in the jazz world. You can imagine how excited we are to be doing this project 17 years after I wrote that business plan."
"There's a spirit of innovation, of creativity and individuality, that's at the core of Miles' music," said Adam Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings. "Sam and Dogfish Head approach their art from the same place and consequently the marriage is an easy and cool one."
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Pours black with a soapy tan ring. Roasty coffee, chocolate and cream aroma. Flavour is dry, coffee bean and grounds...dark chocolate malt, vanilla..... I can "feel" the honey, rather than actually tasting it....not sure what gesho root is supposed to taste like, honestly, but I assume that’s the herbal/spice note.... Great stuff.
shrubber (15804) reviewed Bitches Brew from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Coffee, milk chocolate, malt, and wood ash aroma. Oil black with large tan head. Sweet latte, milk chocolate malt, and mildly bitter herbal hay flavor. Nice balance. Not quite as smooth as the great Miles, but still a nice tribute.
PMgep (4081) ticked Bitches Brew from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery 10 years ago
High and drunk.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Bitches Brew from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
The Sampler, Brooklyn tap: Pours black with a light brown head. Aroma is chocolate, honey, roasted malts, some light coffee, and roasted malts. This is a very smooth imperial stout. It doesn’t try to kill your face with extreme bitterness or excessive maltiness/sugar. The chocolate and honey work well together. It felt quite nice to drink.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour split. Pours a near black with a roasted malt, slightly sour aroma. What a unique stout this is. Tan head. Some interesting date and plum like flavor. This stout was a lot more dark fruit based then the usual chocolate and/or coffee flavor stouts. Super smooth flavor with minimum sweetness. A standout stout for sure. Loved this beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
750ml bottle at the Hoppy Pub, Thessaloniki, courtesy of AntonFred. Almost black color with dark beige head. Aroma is roasted malty with some cocoa notes. Taste is sweet and bitter, roasted malty again. Body is medium, oily with soft carbonation.