Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale

A good one beer - beer. Rich, flavorful. Enjoyed it.

Poured a dark, clear ruby-brown, with two fingers of cappuccino brown head that stays until you start drinking it, lingers throughout the beer, and leaves significant lacing on the glass. Has an aroma of brown sugar and a similar taste. Also has some coffee and chocolate notes and little hops in the background. Has an excellent mouthfeel and is easy drinking for a 7.2% ABV beer. A great beer.

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I'm a big fan of this brewery and a big fan of brown ales, but this one isn't quite my style. I prefer the english brown ales with less hops than this one reveals. It pours a rich dark brown from the bottle with a creamy tan head. The dark chocolate and hops are evident in the nose. On the front, it has a good caramel flavor, but quickly turns to bitter for me. This may be from the roasted malts and or caramelized sugars. It finishes the same way. The hops seem to exacerbate that bitterness.

Beautiful color and aroma. Slightly sweet, but not over-powering. Delicious.

Very well balance of brown taste and not too much hops.

Bottle to glass. Two-finger, beige head over a dark brown, opaque beer. Head stays half-finger thick throughout. Sweet, rich fruits, molasses and chocolatey roasted malts in the nose. Full bodied. Similar flavors as aromas, but pick up the hops on tongue. As much as I like hops, I would have left some out on this beer. Bitterness from "caramelized sugars" (from label) and roasted malts probably accounts for a portion, and hops build upon that. But it seems like they've overcompensated. Less bitterness would have balanced the better with the malt sweetness. Worth pointing out that this 7.2 % ABV beer doesn't have any noticeable hint of its higher alcohol content. Not bad, but not tops for brown ales in my opinion. I want to like this beer more, but the tastes reflects heavily my overall opinion.

What a great brown ale not too heavy with some great flavor

IBA

This is probably my favorite brown ale. Exceptionally rich taste and balanced bite.

Poured into a Sams Perfect Pint glass. One of the prettiest looking beers in general I've ever seen. Pours an extremely dark brown, with slight hints of red on the edges when held up to the light. Has a thick head with small bubbles that linger throughout, this beer also produces excellent lacing. The aroma wasn't very strong, has a smell more like a porter than any type of ale. Has the smell of some chocolate malts, then some hops which are not as strong as the malts. I found the taste interesting. Much like the smell, but seems to have a bit more, maybe some dark fruit and/or barley. Extremely full bodied beer, not much of a carbonation bite to it, left my mouth feeling a bit dry though, found the beer fairly drinkable. I was really excited about this beer, but was a little dissapointed. Overall I found the beer very interesting, I'm not opposed to trying it again, maybe I got an odd batch. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 08-26-2009 15:52:40

An interesting middle from brown ale to IPA. Like it quite a bit but I think Terrapin Hop Karma is the beer that does it better

Great color. With roasted malt right up front, followed by raisins and caramel, with hoppy spice, and stone fruit finishing it out.

Not at all bad, not at all great. I love Dogfish beers for the most part, but this one kind of bores me.

This Brown Ale is on high octane and difficult for me to understand where IPA ends and Brown ales begin. At 7.2% ABV and 60IBU with plenty of caramel overtone - this beer has plenty of flavor. It is a well hopped Brown Ale, pours out a dark brown shade, and a young Bro. to the 60minute IPA. Another DFH great beer!

Pours a light brown without much head. It smells slightly sweet, but with a firm hops profile. Like the name suggests, they've hopped up a brown ale, but found a really nice balance between the presence of bittering hops and that smooth, caramel flavor of brown ales. Great with a burger, and apparently makes awesome bbq sauce... a very drinkable twist on brown ale.

Okay but not my thing.

Dark amber/brown. Head disapates within 3 minutes, leaving only a thin layer of foam once poured into a pint. Nose is some nice coffee, toffee almost. Reminds me of those old hard caramel candies my abuela would keep in her purse, toffee-like indeed sir. There's an aftertaste to the aftertaste. It comes in with the bitterness, the hopiness and then the malt makes a resurgence once more. Nice feeling of brown sugar and that general interplay between the hops and malts going back and forth is what really gets me. 7.2 % abv but doesn't taste boozy or heavy, just right. Small, subtle hints of chocolate? The bitterness masks for me any taste of alcohol. Good day.

Lovely brown/amber hue with lots of persistent white head fading to a very pretty white lace. Very pretty beer. The nose is complex and fun with noticeable hops framed by brown sugar, wood, spice, and caramel. The nose displays all of this without coming off as being too sweet or cloying. On the palate you definitely get the hop oil with some caramel, wood, and spice. A little less complex taste than the palate suggests. Mouthfeel is rather odd but enjoyable. Aggressively hoppy but with a hint of sweetness.

This beer pours a dark brown. Has a caramel malt aroma. Taste is also caramel and malty until the surprise hits you at the end, the hops. This beer is very well hopped for a brown ale. The complexity of this beer is outstanding.