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(Bill Benzel) wrote in
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> Dan Iwerks (dan_iwerksatyahoodottcom) wrote:
>:
>: It's call an imperial stout just because that's about as close as you
>: can get to a style. They should just invent a "Dogfish Head" general
>: style and put all their bizarre yummy stuff in together. Haven't
>: had this year's WWS yet, will soon. The 23% last year was good, the
>: 18% was one of the best beers I've ever had. --
>
> I didn't have any last year but this one is not an Imperial Stout --
> it doesn't have the kind of hop presence that I'd expect in an
> Imperial Stout.
>
> The label does not define it that way either. IIRC it said something
> like A really dark beer made with a ridiculosly huge amount of grain
> or something along those lines.
>
> I just found an online source at liquidsolutions.biz. They define the
> style as "dogfish" which, IMO, is absolutely appropriate.

Makes me a bit nervous. I see something categorized as a "fruit" beer, I
assume fruit was used to brew it. If it's actually called a "dogfish"
beer, that means it was brewed with . . .
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