Dogfish Head Squall IPA

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Taps slightly hazy golden with a fair ivory head. Aroma produces resiny hops and sharp citrus. Flavor furnishes piney and bitter hops with tangy and tart grapefruit and a little orange. Texture gives decent body and peppy fizz. Squall for it.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Sampled on 6/10/2011. This Imperial India Pale Ale pours a medium orange gold color from a 750ml bottle. Medium sized white foamy head with god lacing and nice retention. The aroma is fruity and sweet, hoppy and citrusy. A medium to full bodied Double IPA. The malts are caramel, fruity and sweet. The hops are citrusy and grapefruity. Nicely balanced, it really sweet and really hoppy, yet it’s so well balanced that you need to look for the either to notice. Not 90 minute like at all. This beer hides the 9% alcohol very well and almost doesn’t taste like an IPA, are we sure this is a Dog Fish Head Beer? Nice sipping beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Maybe just a little bit lighter than the normal DIPA from DFH? Lots of pine and malt in the aroma, also in the flavor, the body is a touch light, really should rate this next to the original...maybe next time.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Acquisition from the Charleston Beer Exchange - a quaint, happening little beer store... Pours deep amber-orange with a moderate head and superb lacing throughout. Aroma and flavor of pine, citrus - grapefruit - and apricot or peaches - couldn't decide which, but very nice. Medium bodied; alcohol masked well.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Floral and citrus hops with almost a very slight hint of chocolate malts, weird but not in a bad way. Hazy orange body with a thin head, lace was ok, mouthfeel was a little on the syrupy side. Flavor was about the same as the aroma, with a hint of sweetbread, ok bitterness in the finish. Overall it was decent, a bit above average.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Mostly clear amber color with little head, only a white ring that is sustained, leaving some nice lacing. Ripe peach aroma with slight grapefruit, sweet and lightly floral. Taste is peaches, heavy and medium sweet, with a slight pine and grapefruit flavor, and a nice bitter linger.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

750ml bottle, bottled in 20112A. Pours a slightly hazy golden copper with a medium frothy head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet melon, caramel malts and peppery hops.

The flavor is sweet sugary malts, some melon and some spicy peppery hops in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied and kind of watery.

Overall, an OK DIPA. It's still kind of subdued. Better than the Hellhound though.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

i dug this one more than the scores here would indicate. a dry hopped bottle conditioned 90 minute ipa...some of the brandied fruitcake sweetness in 90 minute has been tempered and replaced with a little more pungent hops, which i liked. smooth feel that fits the flavor profile from the bottle conditioning. nice beer - liked it better than Poppaskull and Raison D'Extra head to head, and probably better than 60 or 90 minute...just shy of the Burton Baton though :)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

750ml bottle, $9 .. . 7pm Monday, March 21 2011 .. . Pours a tan gold, really nice head, lacing pretty damn good too .. . resin, sticky bark, golden syrup, and sweet citrus .. . this could be great, but that syrupy mouth kills that pipe dream .. . i enjoyed this quite a bit, but the syrupy thickness kills the massive enjoyment that this beer could have had; but i think this beer sits were it should.. . The balloon is a bit of an overrated player. He scored one good goal but did nothing for the rest of the game.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Peachy bronze with a nice cap……looks like your typical IIPA. Sweet peachy aroma withy a lot of substance to it, aroma is not that sharp but there is lots of it. Heavy malt flavored like caramel and very sweet. Pine, peach, some grapefruit round out the hops flavors. So very sweet. I’m really loving the thick heavy feel of this beer, it almost syrupy but not quit. Good brew glad I tried but not sure it was worth the insane price tag, and I guess it was bordering on being too sweet for my liking.