Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Immort Ale
Style: American Strong Ale
Availability: Limited - Spring
Format: 12oz
ABV: 11%
IBU's: 50
Bottle text & Info:
Vast in character, luscious & complex. We started brewing Immort Ale at our brewpub in 1995 and began bottling it in 1997. For this beer, we use maple syrup from Red Brook Farm - Sam's family farm in Western Massachusetts, peat-smoked barley, juniper berries, and vanilla.Immort is fermented with a blend of English & Belgian yeasts, thenaged 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%, so after 1 or 2 you may start feeling immortal (even though we promise you won't be).Immort Ale is released each and every spring (after the sap starts flowing). For more on the Immort Ale (including a bit about the artist who did our 4-pack artwork), watch Sam's Quick Sip Clip: here!
Tasting Notes:
Pours surprisingly light. A clear ruby colored body with a cream colored quarter inch head that floats on the top in silky waves. An unbelievable nose on this guy. Oak all over the place which could be from the vanilla beans just as well as the oak aging. Oak characteristics intermingle with distinct juniper notes and some warming smoke on the back. Excellent creamy mouthfeel with mid to low level carbonation, almost cask-like in that regard. Sweet vanilla upfront, followed by a huge maple mid-section, then some subtle tobacco, clove notes ending with a long peat smoke finish. Overall, this one if right up there with Burton Baton as one of my favorite offerings from Dogfish, and like Dogfish, I swallow my adam's apple when i buy a $15 four pack. C'mon Dogfish. wtf. Regardless, I think this one will age like a gem and solve that messy, off putting maple syrup mid-section. If all the piece meld and become balanced then this one will become world class. For now, its a very solid offering.
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