Dogfish Head Burton Baton

4.2/5

AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20

12 ounce bottle into tulip, bottled 11/22/10A. Pours slightly hazy red-orange color with a dense 2.5 finger off white head with amazing retention. Aromas of strong grapefruit, caramel, oak, and some bread. Fairly strong aromas as well. Taste of strong caramel and oak; with bread, grapefruit, pineapple, and orange. A fair amount of bitterness shows up on the finish and lingers for a bit with huge sweet flavors of oak, caramel, and citrus. The sweetness is definitely the strongest in this beer with the bitterness taking a backseat. No alcohol was noticed in tasting, but a fairly strong warming showed up on the finish. Medium carbonation and fairly full bodied. Very smooth drinking for its alcohol level. Overall a very tasty DIPA, even though it is a bit too sweet for my tastes for DIPAs.

A delicious DIPA, Dogfish has a good track record of making tasty beer to me, though their IPAs are a little too sweet for my liking.