Dogfish Head Higher Math
Celebrating 20 off-centered years with our luscious chocolate cherry birthday cake in liquid form. A golden ale brewed with chocolate and sour cherry juice.
3.1
251 reviews
Milton, United States
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Aromas of alcohol and tartsour cherries. Taste is sour cherries, chocolate, bread, sweet cherries, some pine resin, mint, and medicinal cherries turning into warming alcohol in the chest.
Bottle from beer junction when released. Lots of things going on here but mostly barleywine type flavors with a really high alcohol content. A first sniff of this is really boozy as probably expected. Flavors of fog and grape juice. No indication of chocolate.
Rami Rami is drinking a Higher Math by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery at Chmielarnia Marszalkowska
Jak wóda odparuje to zajebisty brytyjski barleywine, susz, figi, owoce, kandyzowane klimaty, slodziutkie. Huj ze koncern
Bottle. Dark somewhat hazy mahogany pour with a very thin light brown head. Pretty darn sweet old ale with fig, maraschino cherry, light bakers chocolate, some molasses, syrup, wheat wine, booze is well hidden, mild carbonation and sweet body.
Murky light brown with some red tints. Aroma is fruity and boozy. Flavors are complex with cherry, almond and lots of alcohol. Not a great brew but, okay I’ll have another . . . if I am still standing.
12 oz. bottle split with the wife. Pours a ruddy red/amber/brown with a minimal short lived white head. Interesting aroma featuring chocolate covered cherries, fig, dates, raisins and some wood tannin. Sorta sweet on the taste. More chocolate and cherry juice, dark pitted fruits, with damp earth and old wood. Kind of an odd combination, but would you expect anything less from Dogfish Head. Medium bodied and warm in the tummy. The high alcohol content shows itself on the swallow and in the gut.
Poured from bottle reddish brown with a thin tan head and nice lacing. Aromas of raisin prune cherry fig bread sugar honey. Taste is rich alcohol bread honey sugar dark fruit. Wow this could age a few more years.
355ml bottle @ Alex’s. Pours a cloudy rusty brown colour with no head. Nose is sweet malty bread with a hint of booze and sour cherries. Flavour is quite sweet up front, subtle cherries, mayhaps even a boozy christmas cake going on with a medicinal twist.
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Hazy amber color with red hue, the small head vanishes quickly. Some aroma of caramel, vanilla, alcohol. Sweet, boozy, some malt, bread, cookies, coffee, and loads of alcohol.
Weird.
355ml bottle at Alex’s. Pours a hazy reddish amber with a weak head. Aroma is very bready with some hints of cherries. Taste is the same. Hot stuff, very sweet. Drinking this is just like drinking a bread. Of course, bready aftertaste.
Bottle - Bready, light spicy rye notes. Cloudy copper with a small white head. Sweet Brady and some rye notes. Rich and some heat on the throat. I don’t get the cherry.
Bottle to snifter. Cellar aged since purchased in Feb 2016. Pours a hazy garnet with no head. Aroma is aged cherry and maraschino cherry. Flavor is artificial cherry up front, in the back it is like a syrupy cocktail. Massively cloying from the retained sugars. Chocolate showed more as it approached room temperature.
12 ounce bottle into signature tulip glass, bottled on 10/20/2015. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy reddish orange/copper color with a small fairly dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of huge raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, plum, apricot, apple, caramel, brown sugar, honey, toffee, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, rum, brown bread, herbal, pepper, light nuttiness/coffee, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity dark/bready malt, cocoa/cherries, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Slight booze in the aromas as it warms, but pretty minimal. Flavors of huge raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, plum, apricot, apple, caramel, brown sugar, honey, toffee, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, rum, brown bread, herbal, pepper, light nuttiness/coffee, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal/spicy bitterness and slight cherry tartness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark fruits, cherry, apricot, apple, caramel, brown sugar, honey, toffee, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, rum, brown bread, herbal, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, cocoa/cherries, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light dryness from bitter/spiciness, lightly increasing though the glass. Light-medium carbonation and very full body; with a very smooth, creamy/slick/syrupy, and lightly sticky/chalky/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Alcohol is very well hidden; moderately warming finish, but not too boozy. Overall this is a fantastic fruited American strong ale! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, cocoa/cherries, fruity yeast, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV. Very rich, complex, and well balanced on flavors. Definitely glad I aged this first before reviewing. Unique, but delicious. A highly enjoyable offering all around.
Tap at Capone’s, Philadelphia Norristown. Aromas and flavors: Cherries, chocolate and some sweetness. Pretty good.
On tap at Capone’s. Poured an amber color with an off white head. I noted down a bit syrupy and some cough medicine - but not a bad sipper.
Atoma is sour cherry and some chocolate. Flavor is tart, sour and cherry. Very unique and it is hard to finish a bottle. Pours reddish brown
Pours an opaque brown with whitish tan head. Aroma of cherry with faint hints of chocolate. Taste is complex: lots of cherry, less chocolate, and definitely alcohol there too. This one is actually a bit overdone. Still, worth a try. Thumbs up.
Poured a deep amber to brown colour with no noticeable head. Aroma is malt forward with caramel, toffee, and dark fruits like plums and cherries with a solid backing of alcohol. Flavor is once again malt centric with aforementioned characteristics and comes off a bit too sweet with the alcohol being hidden. Resembles a chocolate covered cherry. Full bodied with a syrupy/ chewy mouthfeel this brew is more like a cognac. Something to rival the Utopias series.
Bottle from Sabatinis poured into a snifter. Rust color w no head. Big boozy nose; cherry cordials, raisin, and just lots of astringent alcohol. Tastes very sweet and syrupy. I taste cherry, chocolate, malt, and booze. Definitely warms the chest as it goes down. Very syrupy and medicinal. At 17% I definitely wont be making any important life decisions anytime soon. Not my favorite brew but one Im happy to have tried
Sample during the "Bob’s Private Bottle Share" on 11/21/2016. Cloudy copper color with a thin white head that recedes quickly to a sparse outer ring. Spotty lacing. Aroma of cherry, malt and yeast. Full-bodied with flavors of dark cherry, chocolate malt and yeast. The finish is boozy and syrupy with a medicinal cherry aftertaste. Decent overall.
Pour out of 12 oz bottle, clear golden pour with white head, aroma brought notes of big booze, sweet juice, some slight medicine, hints of cocoa, slight biscuit. Taste was booze, sugar, some juice/fruity notes, hints of dough, slight roast/cocoa, finishing sweet and boozy. Did not work for me.
Bottle shared. This is a beast of a beer. Pours a clear amber with a small amount of head. Cherry caramel with tons of cocoa. Honey and booze. More cherry, oak and umami. Dry and boozy with a lingering aged honey character. Intense...this is definitely a love/hate beer.
Pours a dark cherry orange color. Has a smell of a Big Mac, bacon, pineapple, and apple cider. Taste threw me off. It has a cough syrup/cold medication taste. Fruit up front then an alcohol taste at the end. Overall it comes close to a barley wine style beer. This is one of Dogfish beer that I was not amaze with!
Thanks to my grandson Nick. Poured trod amber with a tiny off-white head Nose of funk and cherry. Medium oily body. Let’s of alcohol. Flavor? We’ll i did. Not know better I might have thinking i was drinking a good cough syrup. Very unique. An when akk was said and done i liked it. Go figure.
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a low dark cream head. Caramel and light cherry aroma. Cherry and caramel flavor with rich malt and alcohol. Fuller bodied. Cherry and light chocolate linger with caramel, rich malt, and alcohol.
Medium dark hazy dark brown. Boozy cherry vanilla aroma. INTERESTING. Doesn't really resemble beer (their other high abv brews are still beer like. This one is heavy syrupy boozy and some cherry. Some similarities with cough syrup. Let's just call it unique.
This "golden ale" poured murky amber color with minimal head. Aroma of sour cherries with a whiff of chocolate. Cloying sweet and syrupy. Little bit like I imagine cherry sno-cone syrup would taste like. DFH went overboard on this one.
Wow, the ratings for this one are all over the map, as were my own impressions. Muddy amber pour with some pale head. Sweet and tart cherry, sweet chocolate, vinegar? Thick and boozy.There may be math involved but this just doesn’t add up.
12 ounce bottle, I believe it’s about a year old. Can’t find a bottle date so I guess it was smudged off. Served in a DFH snifter, the beer pours a reddish/copper color with about a half inch light tan head. Head retention and lacing are both decent enough. The brew smells like tart cherries, chocolate, booze and earthiness. Taste is pretty much just like the aroma, but there’s some additional dark fruitiness (figs, raisins), sherry and molasses noticeable. Mouthfeel/body is medium/full, it’s sticky and syrupy with moderate carbonation. I thought it was an enjoyable brew, I really don’t know if I would have liked this more when it was fresher or not. Worth a try if you come across a bottle.
Draft to taster at cappy’s pour light copper with red hue. Nose tart cherry, light funk, sweet malt, weedy. Taste sweeter up front, then vegetal, green fruit, then syrupy sweet malt. Some green flavors late palate then cloying sweet.