Dogfish Head Liquor de Malt
A 40-ounce, bottle-conditioned malt liquor brewed with Apache Red (red), Hickory King (white), and Taos Blue (blue) corns. The "All-American" malt liquor is packaged with a hand-stamped, Dogfish Head brown paper bag.
3.1
307 reviews
Milton, United States
Community reviews
(40oz) pours hazy yellow with white head. Aroma of banana?, yeast, melon. Taste is sweet with a little metallic note. Medium bodied with thick texture. Good beer.
Live Rate! Bottle shared at Dakine’s house by Justin -- thanks! Pours a brackish urine color with a thin film of white foam. Smells of apple cider and skunky yeast. Tastes suprisngly good -- loaded with red apple skins, corn, caramel, and pale malt. Probably the best malt liquor I’ve ever had.
Hazy dirty water color with a small foamy head. Light aroma of malt, cereal, and light fruit. Light, sweet malt flavor. Pretty tasty!
Bottle courtesy of my headcheese friend Justin from bluballsburger. Pours a cloudy honey color with white head. Aroma is dusty, sweet, malty, honey , corn syrup and corn. Flavor is drier than I expected. Honey, dry and yeasty, really interesting for a MALT LIQUOR!
40 oz bottle, paper bag included. Sweeter creamed corn with a touch of banana and alcohol on the nose. Bread dough and corn chips. No hop aroma to speak of at all. Pours a thick, cloudy (damn near chunky) dark orange/gold with a frothy, tight bubbled, sustained one-finger eggshell white head. Fairly sweet flavor. Lots and lots of corn flavors. Basically tastes like alcoholic creamed corn. Creamed bananas in 2% milk. Uncooked bread dough. Fairly inoffensive ML flavor profile. Definitely full bodied for the style, bordering on cloyingly sweet, but never over the top. A unique take on the style, without many flaws, but not a whole lot to say other than sweetened liquid creamed corn. Beats the hell out of Colt Double Malt. Thanks fellas!
40 oz. bottle, thank you Troy. The packaging is the funniest thing ever - well done Sam and crew. It pours cloudy and orange with a murky brown hue. The aroma is not great because of the style in which the aroma is not pleasant in general - you get a light syrupy sweetness from the malts and the corn, smells like a malt liquor you were drinking at 19. It has a great body considering the style, with the flavor of malt liquor, some bitter and sweet notes in the malts, but a malt liquor on the classy level - best one I’ve had.
40oz in a brown paper bag, amazing should have kept the bottle. Golden body with a white head. Corn chips, bread y notes, a bit sweet with corn and a warming sweetness. Great, for what it is.
Pours a nice golden color with hints of copper. Good white head. Smells very sweet with a bit of corn. A nice malty sweetness in the taste as well. Not too cloying. A bit of a bready character. Nothing too complex about it, just a nice all-around feel. Nice creamy, carbonated mouthfeel. Fairly crisp with nice drinkability.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 04-11-2010
Malt Licka son!!! Complete with the brown bag. Awesome! Hazy gold pour. Grassy fruity aroma. Light gum, grassy hops, corn and light esters. Decent stuff, perfect for a stroll in da hood
Bottle at the 5th Annual Epic Beer Tasting in Richmond, VA, November 28, 2010. Sadly missing the paper bag. Pours a murky brown color with a thin head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of toffee, raisin and raw malty notes. The taste is caramel, toffee, raisin, grainy malts and corn. Medium-full bodied. Damn good for what it is.
A: The pour is a cloudy pale straw color with just about no head at all.
S: It smells like (wait for it) malt liquor. Corn and perhaps some actual malt, but not good by any means.
T: Now, the flavor is actually not terrible. It’s sort of sweet and less "corny" than malt liquor usually is, but malt liquor none-the-less.
M: The body is light with a moderate carbonation.
D: It wasn’t terrible tasting at all, like many malt liquors are. But it wasn’t so much better that I would trade a bunch for it or rush out and buy it. Let’s be honest: it’s malt liquor.
40 oz Bottle and Brown Bag provided by JohnGalt1 very fun to try. Pours out a cloudy yellow topped with a puffy white head. Aroma is not bad. A little hop action some floral notes along with some sweet grass, light fruit and spice. Taste more of the light spice and fruit showing threw. One of the better malt liquors I have had.
Bottle, thanks to WeeHeavySD for sharing! Pours a hazy brownish-amber with white bubbles. Sweet aroma, of malt, juicy fruit, sugar. Taste is quite sweet, of juice, brown sugar, malt, herbs, baked goods, and a hint of booze. Lingering sticky sweetness. A bit old, but not bad.
Bottle at Maltzillas World Cup 2010 tasting. Pours hazy yellow color with white head. Grainy aroma with some lemon. Similar flavors. Different than most malt likkas and definately better. Medium body with average carbonation.
bottle thanks to jjfoodie. deep yellow with a white head. apples, malts, and sugar on the nose. decent palate, flavor is pretty much the nose.
2010 Bottle - Thanks JohnGalt1!!! - Pours a hazy pale golden with a medium sized white head...plenty of gravity, nice big bubbles...aroma wears it on its sleeve, nicely hopped, corny malt, rough grain and slightly sweet...flavour is much the same, a bit fruity, malty, plenty of carbonation and some pitchy hops to cut the malt...I know it’s more of a novelty than anything else, but I really could not find anything about this I didn’t like...well put together, a fun riff on the style, tasty to boot!
thanks to jjfoodie for sharing one with the homies. poured yellowish with a white head. aroma was lemon and different. flavor was lemon with some spice. light body with medium carbonation.
(40oz plastic screw-top bottle, courtesy of JJFoodie) Pours a hazy yellow body with a small off-white head. Aroma of grain, grass, Styrofoam, and florals. Flavor of grain, grass, and corn with a somewhat dry, mildly bitter finish.
(40oz plastic screw-top bottle thanks to JJFoodie; this was had at a big tasting and yes we poured some out for our homies) opaque yellow pour with excellent lacing. Nose of butterscotch and grains. Taste of butter, caramel, grains, and toastiness. Oily slick finish. Nice for the style!
40oz bottle courtesy of jjfoodie. hazy golden color/ white head. powdered sugar, corn flakes, pale malt aromas. Heavy sweet flavors of corn syrup, pale malts, candi sugar. decent.
(big thanks to d13logan for this bottle)DFH did an awesome job on this.caramel malts,nice hoppy finish,very clean malt liquor.
Thanks to jjfoodie for sharing this bottle.
Poured from a clear glass 40-ounce bottle with a screw cap. Awesome. This is my first malt liquor review and what a beer it is. The beer pours a hazy yellow-orange color with a white head. The aroma is corn, caramel malt and orange hops. The flavor is more of the same, lots of orange hops along with some flowery hops and corn. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
40oz bottle via trade thanks to soulforpeanuts on BA. Been after this one for awhile. If there was a packaging category in rating this one, it would do quite well: brown bag, 40oz bottle, plastic screw top. Classy.
Pours cloudy amber with a nice frothy off-white head and some lacing on the glass.
Aroma is nice and sweet but not too exciting: pale malt, caramel, slight floral hops, and some grainy adjunk (corn, I think).
Flavor is sweet and malty. Pale malt and maybe some caramel, grain, corn, and just a hint of floral hops. A little sweeter than it should be.
Smooth and sweet on the palate. Medium-bodied with an average carbonation level.
Drinkability is not too high, but what 40 of malt liquor is drinkable? Edward 40-hands wouldn’t be much of a challenge then, would it? I think "great for the style, but not great overall" sums it up. I like what they did here, but probably wouldn’t opt to drink this again.
Bottle (Batch 2? this year’s batch) thanks to jjfoodie. A bottle conditioned 40? Awesome. Pours with a large, lasting off-white head. Great lace. Aroma is sweet, apple, caramel. Taste is sweet corn and maybe light hops. Fizzy, dry and probably the best malt liquor that I have ever had.
The bottom dregs from a 40 oz bottle shared at the CL Rosso release. Poured an ugly cloudy milky gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma o sweet malts, vegetables and lots of cream corn. The flavor is similar to the aroma with lots of corn and vegetables, sweet malts, honey topped cereal and alcohol. Novelty beer but in a cool ass 40oz bottle that brought me back to my college days.
40 oz bottle. Poured into a plastic pink wine glass. Aroma just gets soapy, residual and a bit herbal. The flavor is a bit underwhelming. Kind of creamy corn-sugar-based alcohol profile. Oxidized. I had hoped that this would offer me a revolutionary experience with malt liquor, but really it’s just a kind of clean, largely bland plain malt lager that’s strong and unexciting. I’m actually stunned that it’s not painfully sweet and full of "white malt." Fun to try, but I’ve had better craft malt liquors.
Bottle via trade a ways ways ways back shared with liz and cyn for lost night. Pours deep muddy brown with no real head. Nose is sweet and weird. Taste is sweet and muddy. Eh, on taste nearly 6 years old and way past its prime, but a a great concept.
Yeah, 40 oz. Store took all the brown paper bags off!?? Why, not sure. First 40 I ever poured into a glass. Aroma is sweet with some faint fruit and cardboard. Flavor is sweet, some rice and caramel. Some cooked corn sweetness finish.
Bottle 120cl.
Clear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, oxidide malt, mazipan ! moderate alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090821]
Bottle, 1qt 8fl oz, shared by Papsoe. It’s a hazy, golden-orange beer with a minimal-sized off-white head. Malty nose with some alcohol, quite fruity. The flavor is malty and fruity with a faint alcohol warmth and a good sweetness. Full-bodied, and finishing sweet and malty. Well, for a malt-liquor it’s nice, else it’s rather uninteresting. 090821