Dogfish Head Oak-Aged Vanilla World Wide Stout
Brewed with a ridiculous amount of barley, we’ve now taken this Dogfish Head classic and aged it on oak with real vanilla beans! With a little tender love and care we foster this beer from smooth, sweet wort into the big, bad blackened stout it always longed to be. Its bold, port-like complexity goes great with (or as) dessert.
3.9
200 reviews
Milton, United States
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Bottle. Pours deep, dark brown. Aroma and flavor are vanilla, chocolate, oak, booze, caramel, dark fruit, and a hint of marshmallow fluff.
Slight autolysis note but blends in well with the silky malty caramel and molasses. Alcohol slightly high in booziness but stunning to say the least.
Aroma is intense malts coacoa, and licorice. Taste is super intense malts , licorice and coacoa nips. It is hard to describe the intensity here. I like it but it will take an hour to drink.
This Worldwide Stout may have scored a 99, but to me, much too strong on the vanilla. Wish Sam would keep his original Worldwide stout which was much, much better. This Worldwide Stout left me with a dry mouth. Hope Sam and Dogfish don't go down in quality after the merger with Sam Adams. Had some Sam Adams and liked them, but sometimes mergers result in lower the qualities of the beers. Please Dogfish bring back the original Worldwide Stout I loved it.
330ml bottle from Bucket Boys
Bottled 08/01/17 16% ABV ?
Pour is quite think, opaque body more of a deep mahogany hue than Black, slight legs on the glass as I give it a swirl.
Immense nose to it; liqueur like chocolate, stacks of vanilla, dark caramel, toasty Oak, fair booze.
Proper thick body, seriously chewy, unctuous, kinda sticky, long finish, fair warmth.
Fudgey chocolate character is dominant, bolstered by loads of vanilla bean with sort of Bourbon like Oak and char, spice and rich caramel, almost honey and nougat like, sweet coffee on the finish, firm bitterness, booze comes through a fair bit; let's you know who's boss...
Perhaps just a touch rough around the edges, but a truly formidable and excellent beer overall!
From a bottle. Pours dark nut brown with a fizzy tan head. Tastes like rich roasted malt, dark chocolate, vanilla, booze, woody, and earthy. Medium body and low/medium carbonation. Smells like booze, rich dark chocolate, vanilla, roasted malt, and oak.
Black pour with a thin foamy tan head. Roasty deep nose of ani w and licorice and vanilla with a little dark chocolate. Big sultry body that’s complex and cocoa’d with some sweet lingering vanilla, roasty dark malt, a touch of biscuitiness, and a rich port-like boozy warmth and spirited depth. Delightful.
Bought @ Mom's Organic Market around Sept. 2018. Bottled in March 2018 and sampled in Feb. 2019. Didn't notice much difference from the regular WWS. Vanilla adds a little sweetness, but I wasn't getting much oak. The heavy malts probably mask it somewhat. May be done with the WWS family though, as there are so many others out there now.
An outstanding, very dense beer. Chocolate and vanilla, boozy and rich. Thick aroma and even thicker mouthfeel. Tried with mom and dad at Casual Pint.
Bottle at “ Make HSV Great Again” tasting. Black body with a small brown head. Roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, oak, alcohol, fudge, sweet. Complex. Good.
Bottle at Make HSV great again tasting. It pours jet black with a creamy beige head. The aroma is oak, chocolate and vanilla. Sweet roasted notes. The flavor is oak, vanilla, sweet roast, light coffee and wood. Long bourbon finish. Great!
12 oz bottle aged about a year. The oak flavor has melded in the back. Notes of clove, chocolate and coffee. The alcohol is really hidden compared to base version, maybe due to age. Great beer.
Bottle @ home, bought from Whole Foods Bowery (NYC) Spring of 2017. Pours a black colour with a light brown head that has short retention. Aroma's: sweetish, vanilla, boozy, woody, roasted, light umami. Retronasal it's sweet, alcohol, vanilla, cocoa powder, somewhat spiritus even. Flavour is above moderate sweet with light woody bitterness. Alcohol feel is strong and warming. Above medium bodied. Long finish, moderate bitter and coffee-ish.
Jet black with a tan head. Really nice caramel and toasted oak aroma. Rich mouthfeel. Almost wine-like. Vanilla oak notes. Roasted flavors. Tons going on here. Super complex. Wonderful.
12 oz bottle. Pours a very dark brown with short tan head. Aromas of dark sweet fruit, oak, dark chocolate, vanilla, and roasted malts. Rich flavors follow same without the oak and with additional dark caramel. Hot finish.
On tap at Gillys in Rockville, MD.
Opaque, near-black with a creamy tan head and good lacing.
Aroma of roasted malt, oak, vanilla, alcohol and dark fruit.
Taste of roasted malt, alcohol, bittersweet chocolate, vanilla dark fruit and oak.
Medium/full body and medium carbonation.
Aroma of malt, vanilla, chocolate and a hint of smoke. Pours a dark black color with tan head with nice lacing. An oily full bodied mouth feel with a taste of vanilla, mocha coffee and some smoked malt, not too boozy with a vanilla mocha finish.
Pours brown/black, almost no head. Vanilla, oak, wood, roasted malts, caramel, molasses, fairly hot booze.
Pitch black pour, good sized Mocha head, good retention, little to no lacing. Dark malts in the aroma, dark chocolate, vanilla, very light booze, wood. Way smoother than it should be, no alcohol heat whatsoever, rich dark chocolate, oak, vanilla sweetness. Thicker full body. DFH can still knock them out of the park.
Man. I really love this one. Roasted malt, dark fruit, faint oak, alcoholic but not solventy, not really picking up the vanilla but that's typical for me.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a medium, well retained, beige head, that slowly becomes thin, with almost zero lacing, over a clear dark brown (SRM 35) body.......nose is vanilla, roasted malts with chocolate, cocoa dominant, caramel tones, alcohol aromas, slight hops, malts, barrel, vanilla dominant......taste is sweet, with molasses, brown sugar tones, slight caramel, roasted malts, with cocoa, chocolate, also vanilla, oak notes, finishing towards dry with slight bitterness........mouth feel, medium sticky body, alcohol burn present, slight carbonation. This is a very complex easily drinkable beer, which falls into the Barrel, Additive style. This only flaw is the high alcohol content, with its burning. BJCP 9/3/16/4/7
Bottle. Dark, nearly black pour with a small off-white head. Aroma is boozy and very malty, chocolatey and bready, sweet with hints of vanilla and oak. Taste is a little sweet up front but quickly replaced by a roasty and rich maltiness, vanilla and oak, thick and oily texture with a slightly sugary finish. Big, sweet and a little boozy, but hides the high ABV very well.
Pours black, thick, medium fluffy tan head and dots of lacing. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, wood and booze. Tastes bitter roasty, but with a nice sweetness, oak, vanilla, notes of chocolate and bourbon, dark fruits and alcohol. Full bodied, slick mouth feel, very light carbonation, long finish. Very well made bomb, although we are talking of 16% ABV it's quite easy to drink, delicious.
Bottle, 2017 vintage. Rich roasted malt aroma with notes of dark chocolate, vanilla, oak, molasses and licorice. Pours deep brown with a thin toffee brown head that has good retention and some lacing. Starts with rich roasted malt, dark chocolate and molasses flavors as well as having a rich, full body and slick, viscous mouthfeel. Finishes impeccably smooth with licorice, oak and vanilla flavors as well as a hint of warming alcohol. Wonderful and it hides the high alcohol well, making it a dangerous brew!
Lucky to find it still on tap at the Barrelman’s Room.
5 oz. goblet, if such a thing can be conceived of. Not quite black, but a little bit of brown around. The edges, and a transitory ring of foam. Smell is rich with both coffee and vanilla, maybe even a bit perfumes. Taste is “rich,” too. I guess that’s going to be my word for this today.
Vanilla makes for the main component of the taste. But it also has a definite oak edge in its taste and its mouthfeel. Still, it doesn’t have any overdone note. Just a fine smooth brew. Now some chocolate and a bit of the oak are noticed. A worthy sipping brew, and a nice reward for a day that started at the dentist getting an old crown cut out. Then I have just a little note of cherry, probably some component of the stout had some souring? Either way, I find new things with each little sip, and that makes this a great little beer. Sherry, too, gets stronger as I keep up with this… yes, never has so much been written about so little beer. Now vanilla takes over at the finish. A strong barrel aged beastie that skates along the edge of excess, but never goes over.
GABF 2017. The same great palate as the regular version. sweet and heavy, and lots of vanilla in the aroma that reminds me of bourbon barrel aging.
3275ML. split ways. dark reddish hues smells of vanilla candy. very smooth licorice, bark, wood, roasted barley, light coffee but acidic. very acidic and tannic. surprising given the ABv
Bouteill 355ml. Couleur noire opaque, mousse moka fuyante laissant un anneau sur les parois du verre. Arôme d'alcool, raisin, vanille, chêne. Goût d'alcool (beaucoup trop présent), malt torréfié, pointe de café. Carbonatation élevée, corps moyen. Malheureusement l'alcool camoufle pas mal tout le reste.
Taste better than most 6-20% beers exactly how they list it
Aroma - roast, vanilla, chocolate, and sugar.
Appearance - body is black. The head is 1/4" and fades into a island of filmy suds and a ring khaki in color.
Taste - has chocolate, vanilla, marshmallow, slight roast, caramelized sugar, and a little char.
Palate - body is full, texture is slick, carbonation is average, finish is slightly astringent.