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

Aroma is a nice mix of malts and hops...pine, lemon peel, rosemary, and apples with a nice bready overtone. The aroma lasts! This is an aromatic brew. Appearance is in the eye of the beholder I guess but this one looks lovely to me. Pours a medium deep copper-colored body that is slightly foggy and is just a bit more red than most copper-colored ales ...bronze I guess. Caps with a very foamy head that is nicely done and lasts a moderate amount of time. No constantly rising bubbles but a nice thin foam remains on the top and excellent lacing. Mouth is real nice, very soft and velvety, smooth and suprisingly a nice hint of thickness with a decent tingle. Like the nose promised there is a good amount of hops in this beer. It hits a bit nutty-malty,yeasty, a little rosemary astingency in the taste --- not a strong flavor but nicely done. Leads to a nice yet not terribly complex sweet sour thing and ends tart and dry. Reminisent of an IPA with less hops bitterness, this is a very drinkable ale. Alcohol is fully masked. I drank a LOT of English bitters in the pubs in 73 when I was 19, This is the first I have had since. For a beer that in most ways is modest I am suprised how high my rating is going to come out. This is just very well done!

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

An amzaingly fast to dissapear nose of rasberrys and malt.. wish it had stuck around a bit longer. Also a fairly short-lived head taht is carmel in color and leaves moderate lace. Pours a deep deep brown body that is quite opaque. Mouthfeel is nice... good tingle fairly slippery, perhaps a touch thin. Taste is becoming interesting.Flavor at first seems simple it is going almost straight to the end taste but the end taste, while brief, seems quite complex. I think I may have poured this a bit too cold and am going to let it warm a bit before more tasting. The hops in this stout are not shy. It hits with a combination of bitter and floral with a touch of orange peel, and super clean for a stout. I'm not getting much nid taste or perhaps the begining middle and end are incredibly well folded into one another. It goes carmel and toasty and brown sugar very rapidly which is combined with a nice bready tatse and follows with oats. It ends clean and slightly sweet and then if followed with a slightly sour and smokey aftertaste. There is a plesant tobacco taste in the end note as well. Alcohol is completley masked. Second pour at a slightly warmer temperature. Much less fruit in the nose, some chocolate and some grape. Interstingly it smells a bit like a smoked gouda.The head is lasting a bit longer this time and is lovely to look at a nice combination of tight foam broken up with pockets of large bubbles. Teh initial simplicity of this stout is deceptive. For me it required more detailed concentration then many beers but that attention revealed a quite complex and wonderfully crafted stout. This oen burbs geat too!

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

Very small and short lived beige head with minimal lacing over a deep deep copper colored body . Perhaps the carbonation is not as well done as most Dogfish products. Nose of citrus, figs and cotton candy. Mouth feel is delightful… all silk and velvet with a decent tingle but just a bit thin. Flavor is nice, the first tatste is porter-like but becomes more aleish as time goes buy. It hits sweet with a good carmel flavor then goes astringent and hoppy with a nice bitterness that leads to a sweet flavor of toasty malts. Well balanced for a sweet ale it finishes surprisingly clean and fairly dry. Alchohol is barely present in the taste but leaves a nice heat in the belly. This would probably be a great beer to introduce less adventurous quaffers to a whole new world of elixers. Its very very aproachable! RERATE 11/22/2016 Nose has nots of licorice and bourbon. Vigorous pour now produces a thick frothy head with good retention and lace.

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

Nose is lemmon, pepper, lavender,and fresh backed bread ... complicated and balanced, real nice. Pours a thick forthy beige head with moderate endurance and real good lacing. A deep copper body lurks beneath with continuing effervesance moving up to restore the lace. For some reason, personal I guess, I find hte color slightly off-putting. Mouthfeel is VERY slippery, creamy and tingly ... again VERY nice. Taste is spot on for type, winey, layered, complicated, and balanced. It hits very sweet, I suspect crystal malts and toasted malts, a bit of caramel flavors in that initial taste. It follows with a nice floral hoppy bite, an astringency,and a significant presence of alcohol in the midtatste. That is followed with a lavender and citrus flavor and stronger caramel flavors. End taste is sugar, almost like icing but with a hint of tartness. Aftertaste is suprisingly clean for this ale and i get an intersting pear flavor. I find this to be a very good ale but if sweetness bothers you then this one's not for you. I would liek to try this with a real good stinky cheese course, I suspect it would be fantastic!

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

Reviewing from day old memory. Great head, none better ...beige, thick, foamy and alive. A head that lasts forever and leaves magnificent lace with a dark dark brown body underneath. Nose of fruit and spice and malt...complex and delightful. Mouthfeel is thick yet clean, slippery and tingly. Flavor is complex, toasty malts, heavy fruit, spice and some alcohol, for a sweet beer it finishes fairly dry. This beer is a home run.

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

Interesting beer, reminds me of a dopplebock. Pours a ruby brown, lots of violet in the body.Decent light biege head that has medium endurance, good lacing. Not a lot of nose to this beer which is suprising. Wahts there is some yeast and some berry. Mouthfeel is full and the carbonation is nicely done. Strong flavor elements and fairly complex, befitting its Belgium target. A very winey flavor with lots of spice and fruit followed by a significant presence of alcohol, finishes sweet. Not a lot of hops profile in this brew. A very good american attempt at a Belgium Stong ale and they kick in 2 bucks a case towards a jazz foundation. (Thelonius Monk, Thelooniou Brothers, Monks made Belgium Ale, its kinda clever.) rerate 1/2/2016 Did the recipe change or did I? Tons of long-lasting nose on this thing; figs, cotton candy, grape, marking that up. Zero lace, marking that down. Carbonation seems a bit light.Pretty tasty though. But qutie sweet and alcoholmore maked that previous tasting.

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

Pours a very dark brown body with a hint of deep violet within. Mdoerate dirty grey head that is short lived but leaving quite nice lace. Nose is all pine with maybew a hint of some other floral detected. Smells like a nice version of lysol. Mouth feel is foamy, slippery, and then tingly... theres a lot of feel to the mouth which is rather enjoyable. Flavor has a lot of hops in it and a lot of carmel sweetness...it hits astringent pine and pepper then goes a bit sweet then finishes quite dry, leaving hte mouth coasted with a charcoal aftertaste. It also tastes a bit like Coca-Cola but not in a bad way.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

First time I have ever tasted a Corona, have always put lime in it before. Aroma is very close to non-existant a wee bit of grass, a wee bit of bready yeasts, and a touch of sweet berries. Pours a minimal head that rapidly disapears leaveing almost 0 lace and a tiny but constant effervesance that bubbles up through a very pale yellow body. Mouthfeel is slightly tingly and slightly slippery, its an OK mouthfeel. Flavor .......what flavor? Tastes like a very stale sweet tart might taste; a litle corn, a little metalic, a little simple syrup, and ends with a slightly off-putting chemical taste, almost no aftertaste. All these flavors are just barely there, its a VERY small taste. All in all its better then most US macros, no skunk, and its better then drinking water.

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

Aroma is lemom grass, honey, clover and yeast. Its a very mild nose. Pours a deep amber body that is foggy and starts with a large foamy head that dissipates moderately leaving moderate lace. Mouthfeel is fuzzy, tingly, light and clean. Flavor is mild but lovely balance. It hits floral and a subtle hint of lemmon,hopps and wheat are present, moves to honey and follows with a nice bit of bitter, leaving almost no aftertaste. This is a very well done beer, perfect for a summer cookout and a strong contender for session beer of the season.

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

This reveiw is the bottle, been along time since I've had the draft. Pours a twofinger had, nice and frothy which subsides fairly quickly leaving moderate lace. Has a nice transparent copper colored body. Nose is nice, a bit of yeast and a nice hoppy spice and maybe a touch of citrus, very inviting. Mouthfeel is slipery with a touch of tingle, medium bodied. Flavor is not a let down and seems just as promised by the nose. Fairly complex for this style of ale and very tasty. Hits a bit bitter, then goes very floral, turns tart goes sweet and ends ever so slightly bitter. Lots of nice flavors involved; orange, clove, pepper, and some toasted malts present, and a hint of carmel sugars. I used to frequent McSorley's in the East Village and frankly don't recall that draft being quite this subtle and flavorful. This is a very nice bottle of beer. (LATER EDIT) OK, I'm shocked, this is a Miller offering! Well done Miller, and it apparently had nothing to do with McSorley's in the East Village (one wonders if they at least paid McSorley's a price for the name.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McSorley%27s_Old_Ale_House