As you can see from the pictoral helper here, we aren't fully unpacked or 100% ready with the setup to be posting the most professional and beautiful of review photos yet, but give us a few weeks, we're trying! The move went well and the Dobie and I are settling into our new digs quite nicely. We love our shiny new 1970's built place, and it will be great for holding fun little tastings with friends!
Beer: Birra Etrusca Bronze
Brewery: Dogfish head
Style: Ancient Ale
ABV: 8.5%
Style: Ancient Ale
ABV: 8.5%
Glass: Snifter
Appearance: Head pours about an inch high white that is quite thin and disappears quickly. Beautiful deep and clear amber color with sparkling red tones.
Aroma: A grape-like aroma that in my mind might be a well-combined blend of the pomegranate and honey. Reminds me somewhat of sweeter red table wines.
Body & Texture: Lighter body that is made heavier by the intensity of the alcohol. Relatively no fizz, a flatter smoother brew, which was evident by the quickly fading head.
Taste: And here we come to why it was a bad decision to buy a more expensive beer that had been sitting on the shelf at a brightly lit store - our alcohol seems to have gotten stressed out. Flavors of fruit and wheat-flour are present in the start with the smoothness of honey in the finish, however there is also an ever-present slight ethyl-alcohol flavor that suggests stressed yeast, as has happened to us during brewing on several occasions. I'm also getting a much higher alcohol flavor than I should from an 8.5% beer, and higher than I would expect from a DFH brew.
Overall: I need to try this one again to give a better review. For now, I give it a 3/5, but I plan on acquire another from some dark cool corner of a better store sometime soon for a re-hash, as I'm not sure this is the best example I could find of this particular brew. While the aromas and flavors were on par with what I would expect from an ancient ale, and promised to be quite tasty, there was definitely something wrong with this bottle - the prevalence of ethyl alcohol flavor and rapid drunk feeling off of my small tasting glass was enough to alert me to that. Don't despair DFH lovers, I will never drop DFH out of my favorites list, but I'm not too sure about this particular brew.
Taste: And here we come to why it was a bad decision to buy a more expensive beer that had been sitting on the shelf at a brightly lit store - our alcohol seems to have gotten stressed out. Flavors of fruit and wheat-flour are present in the start with the smoothness of honey in the finish, however there is also an ever-present slight ethyl-alcohol flavor that suggests stressed yeast, as has happened to us during brewing on several occasions. I'm also getting a much higher alcohol flavor than I should from an 8.5% beer, and higher than I would expect from a DFH brew.
Overall: I need to try this one again to give a better review. For now, I give it a 3/5, but I plan on acquire another from some dark cool corner of a better store sometime soon for a re-hash, as I'm not sure this is the best example I could find of this particular brew. While the aromas and flavors were on par with what I would expect from an ancient ale, and promised to be quite tasty, there was definitely something wrong with this bottle - the prevalence of ethyl alcohol flavor and rapid drunk feeling off of my small tasting glass was enough to alert me to that. Don't despair DFH lovers, I will never drop DFH out of my favorites list, but I'm not too sure about this particular brew.
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