12 oz. bottle, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma is very earthy and muddled, with some pith, not much else. Flavour is along the same lines, with lots of muddled earthy notes and some pith. Muddled and just overall uninspiring. Lame.

Not the biggest fan of Dogfish’s varied fruit-n-adjunct IPAs, mainly because their IPA-ness seems to get lost amid all the fruity gimmickry. Romantic Chemistry does indeed feature moderate mango and apricot notes, plus the slightest hint of ginger in the fade, yet the hop loveliness gets overshadowed by the showy additions. More like a hop-forward amber fruit beer than an IPA, to be honest. Floral bitterness on the back end doesn’t help, adding a saccharine finish to the modest sweetness. The whole pint seems kind of a mess. Pass.

Clear golden amb bod med foam off wht head. Fruity floral arma. Fruity, bready floral flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/3/7/3/15 3.5

Bottle from Discount. Pours a slightly cloudy copper with a half finger of foam that dissipates immediately. Good lacing as it goes down. Caramel nose with some syrupy canned oranges and apricot. Feels heavy and bit oily on the palate. Sweet with some mango notes as it warms. Dry finish with a long, lingering ginger burn.

What’s going on with DFH? I mean they went from one of the coolest breweries to seemingly all gimmicks. It’s bizarre. 12 ounce bottle. Pours a beautiful copper hue with a large white head. A light floral nose. The flavor is not so good; ginger, toast, some orange, a sort of creamy oily base. It ends very dry like white wine. Sort of somehow a dry perfumy and not too flavorful beer. I mean, this isn’t horrible but it isn’t very good.

Pours a peachy-copper color, with middling head. Aroma is grassy and vegetal, with some slight hints at the fruit content. Flavor is actually pretty good. Tastes like a citrusy, tropical fruit IPA, with strong mango and hop-pine/spruce flavors. This is a lot better than some of these ratings led me to believe.

Clearish golden and lightly amber coloured body with some hints of copper coloured tints along with a small, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of light earth, some mellow toffee and caramelised sugars along with a bit of grain and the faintest hint of fruits. Medium-bodied; Assertive grassy and toffee flavours with some caramel, light grain, alcohol and mellow nutty notes - no fruit and hardly any hop elements ether. Aftertaste shows more of the same with more yeast, more caramel and a touch of alcohol noticeable at the very end. Overall, a decent beer at best with nothing even close to a ’fruit beer’ noticeable - this is an attempt at an IPA, and not a very good one, as typical with this brewery over the past ~10 years. Peel off this label and the score drops ~40 or 50 points, easily. Disappointed is an understatement here, but i’ve become used to that with DFH. I sampled this twelve ounce DFH bottle purchased from Giant Food in Falls Church, Virginia on 28-April-2016 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington on 07-September-2016.

bottle - This beer smells very fruity. The flavor is sweeter than I expected with tropical fruit notes. The mango in particular comes through. It’s moderately bitter with a medium body and is quite enjoyable.

On tap at Mugs Alehouse, Brooklyn on 8th July 2016. Copper with shallow decaying foam and scant lacing. Sweet caramel malt aroma. Hints of peach, light citrus and toffee flavours in-mouth. Touch of boiled sweet/barleysugar. A fruity kick and finish. Full-bodied with a zingy mouthfeel. I expected more from this American IPA.