Immort Ale
(has 3 batches)
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.41
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Pour this over pancakes. Vast in character, luscious and complex, Immort Ale was born at our brewpub in 1995 and made its way into bottles in 1997.
For this beer, we use maple syrup from Red Brook Farm (Sam's family farm in Western Massachusetts), peat-smoked barley and vanilla.
Immort is fermented with a blend of English and Belgian yeasts, then aged in the big oak tanks at the brewery.
The sweet and earthy flavors meld magnificently in the Immort Ale. But be warned, the ABV is 11%.
For more on the Immort Ale (including a bit about the artist who did our 4-pack artwork), watch Sam's Quick Sip Clip.
For this beer, we use maple syrup from Red Brook Farm (Sam's family farm in Western Massachusetts), peat-smoked barley and vanilla.
Immort is fermented with a blend of English and Belgian yeasts, then aged in the big oak tanks at the brewery.
The sweet and earthy flavors meld magnificently in the Immort Ale. But be warned, the ABV is 11%.
For more on the Immort Ale (including a bit about the artist who did our 4-pack artwork), watch Sam's Quick Sip Clip.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
2007 Vintage. Thanks Alex. Bottle @ Miss January / AA Meeting Afterparty Tasting, March 2012. Pours cloudy ruby amber with a creamy white head and lacings. Vinous nose. Matured fruit, port , vanilla, dark fruit and caramel. Flavor has a bit of oxidation. Lots of plum,vanilla, raisin, caramel and port. Full bodied. A sipper. Quite nice . . Still.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2012
at 14:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at City Beer. Sweet and syrupy. Pours copper with minimal head. Sweet and viscous flavor with smoke background coming out late as the beer warms. Sticky mouthfeel. Cloying. [Rating upped from a 3.3 after drinking a 2006 aged vintage at Abbot’s Cellar at a dinner with Sam]. Aged nicely.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Feb 2012
at 21:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Purchased at In Fine Spirits in Chicago, IL; enjoyed after running and finishing a half marathon on a cold, windy January afternoon. Appearance a red/orange hybrid with a thin white head that rims around the glass. Aroma is nice and complex, slight sweet, vanilla notes, maple, dark fruit, light smoke, and oak. Taste is good, alcohol burn in the back end but masks it quite well, maple shines a bit more with a smoke/oak presence. It’s pretty good, having a difficult time trying to review it. It’s good, not my favorite barley wine, but it’s good.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2012
at 13:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ City Beer, San Francisco, CA
Pours reddish orange with a small bubbly head. Strong malty aroma with notes of syrup, ash and smoke. Taste is quite malty and sweet with notes of smoke, ash and maple syrup. Warming, sweet and slightly spicy finish. Okay, a bit untypical barley wine.
Pours reddish orange with a small bubbly head. Strong malty aroma with notes of syrup, ash and smoke. Taste is quite malty and sweet with notes of smoke, ash and maple syrup. Warming, sweet and slightly spicy finish. Okay, a bit untypical barley wine.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2012
at 15:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
12 oz bottle. Pours cloudy burnt orange to almost ruby red with minimal beige head. Aroma is muted caramel--or maybe it’s the maple syrup, hard to tell. Taste is really exotic! The vanilla and maple syrup are very prominent; juniper berries, too. Mouthfeel is oily and the carbonation is pretty high for the style. An excellent tasting beer with very little aroma. Addendum: I can’t let this beer get away with such a low score just because of the almost non-existant aroma. Towards the end of the glass, the juniper berries come through, raising my score a little bit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2012
at 17:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle @ home. Hmmm, sounds like a pretty interesting concotion- ppeat smoked barley, vanilla and maple syrup, juniper berries. I’m excited to see if they pulled this one off. Clear, burnt orange appearance with a big, fluffy, light brown head. Good lacing. Maple syrup, oak, peaty smoke, a touch fruity, rich malty aroma. At first you ge t the maple and vanilla syrup and caramel malty sweetness followed by a mild to moderate peaty smoke that is prevalent on the finish. Oak throughout. I only get a mild note of the juniper berries. Pretty sweet beer overall strangely interacts pretty well the peaty smoke. Another interesting beer from DFH but I’m glad I didn’t pick up more than one of these.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2011
at 22:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
4oz pour at the Lupulin Reunuless at RFD DC. 2009 vintage. Pours a transparent, copper amber with a thin, creamy white head. Big juniper aroma, piney, light smoke, malt. Flavor is all pine and juniper berries, malty, raisin, a little rosemary. Full bodied, sticky, sweet, raisiny, finish.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2011
at 18:35