Campfire Amplifier
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Smoked Rotating|
Score
7.05
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Our s’mores-inspired milk stout!
Break out the s'mores fixin's - there's a new brew in town! Inspired by cold nights around the campfire, this milk stout is brewed with marshmallows, graham crackers, cocoa nibs, cinnamon, Madagascar vanilla beans and smoked malt. The only thing missing is a tent, and a few fireside ghost stories.
Speaking of FIRE ... check out that label artwork! Campfire Amplifier's packaging is the first of future Art Series illustrations that will be done by our next Art Series Artist, Ryan Besch! Ryan has been designing notable gig posters and vinyl art for 20+ years, and his alternative comics-inspired approach pairs perfectly with our off-centered ales!
Break out the s'mores fixin's - there's a new brew in town! Inspired by cold nights around the campfire, this milk stout is brewed with marshmallows, graham crackers, cocoa nibs, cinnamon, Madagascar vanilla beans and smoked malt. The only thing missing is a tent, and a few fireside ghost stories.
Speaking of FIRE ... check out that label artwork! Campfire Amplifier's packaging is the first of future Art Series illustrations that will be done by our next Art Series Artist, Ryan Besch! Ryan has been designing notable gig posters and vinyl art for 20+ years, and his alternative comics-inspired approach pairs perfectly with our off-centered ales!
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Well fuck me. So some time ago I pledged to never buy another beer from DFH and put money into Calagione's pocket. It was a combination of a few factors - one was the descent of their beers from solid straightforward beers to ridiculous overpriced concoction, but the real kicker was Calagione's brow-beating of ratebeer a few years back after the success of his brewery was due in large part to the beer geek evangelism on sites like this. But then in a flurry of seeing a bunch of beers I've never tried I ended up barely looking at the labels, and realized only after I got home what I had bought. But just to prove that Sam Calagione is an ass, I'll be rating this completely unbiased. Its a solid stout, big chocolate notes, hints of the graham cracker, plus the dark malts, maybe a hint of smoke, a real nice mixture that makes a good christmas time beer. Meanwhile, DFH still sucks, and this time will be my last time buying one of their beers.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2020
at 22:49
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Pours opaque dark brown with a thin tan head. Aroma of chocolate, cocoa. Taste has sweet brown sugar, toasted malt, nuts, lots of chocolate. Palate has a bitter finish, some more brown sugar. Good.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2020
at 04:51
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours almost black with a tan head. Roasted malt, cocoa, touch of ash, hint of cinnamon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2020
at 03:36
This is really good from Dogfish. Grahm cracker, marshmallow, smoky, chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2020
at 20:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
32oz crowler in Milton, pours an opaque black with some ringing khaki head. Nose has cocoa powder, malt, molasses, Tootsie Roll, sasparilla. Flavors of Graham cracker and cinnamon, cocoa, turbinado sugar, nougat. Finishes off dry, some mild spice, vanilla now.
Tried
from Crowler
on 21 Nov 2020
at 02:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Total Wine, Fairfax: pours black with beige head. Aroma is spice, chocolate, roasted malts. Taste is sweet and fairly spicy. Nice smore taste. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2020
at 22:41
4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
Bottle, big black pour. Nice choco tan head. Malty nose. Quite cloying up front. Big dark semisweet chocolate impact. Some mild carbonation. A tad medicinal in the middle. Gets more difficult as session continues. Not as smooths as smores should be but whatever. Some hints of spice in the background, maybe cinnamon? Not sure. I like stouts but this comes across as a little mess. Mouthcoating finish. Not impressed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2020
at 20:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Very nice. Roast and campfire. Coffee and dark chocolate. Sharp graham cracker. Black pour with nice head and lacing. Bitter finish with a hint of milk. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2020
at 01:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, TJs - CHO. Pours nearly black with a slow-rising brown head. Chocolate, vanilla, marshmallow, graham cracker, salt nose. Flavor is chocolate, roasted malt, salt, coffee beans, light marshmallow. Not sweet, but also not complex. Not bad, but I expected more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2020
at 22:08
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
black pour thin tan foam toasted marshmallow, vanilla, ith chocolate and coffee notes. Sweet taste of chocolate, vanilla, and marshmallow sweet palate of chocolate and vanilla
Tried
on 18 Oct 2020
at 17:35