Dogfish Head URKontinent
URKontinent is brewed in the style of a Belgian Dubbel. It begins with Pilsner, Munich and Chocolate Malts and Belgian Dark Candi syrup. Then we add unique ingredients from around the world. Wattleseed from Australia imparts a chocolate, coffee, and hazelnut taste to the beer. Toasted Amaranth from South America gives it an earthy, grainy flavor and a little additional roast flavor. Green Rooibos from Africa contributes a floral aroma and slight astringency. Myrica Gale from Europe supplements the bitterness from minimal hopping. Hive Plex Honey from California adds a subtle sweetness while maintaining the dry finish.The careful combination of all these ingredients creates a complex dark Belgian style ale with wonderful coffee and chocolate covered cherry flavors. The roastiness of the malt and wattleseed melds with the fruity esters from the yeast, the floral notes from the rooibos, and the malty yet dry signature of a Belgian Dubbel. Perfect to enjoy with friends as the weather begins to cool.
3.7
239 reviews
Milton, United States
Community reviews
750 ml. bottle. Pours a red with a little brown with a tan head. Aromas of fruit, chocolate and coffee. Very sweet flavors with brown sugar and light fruit. Not a hoppy beer, more comparable to a wine in my opinion. Sweet and smells of fruit.
750ml bottle in a tulip. Pours very dark brown with a lacy, beige head. Aroma of dark malts, some chocolate and coffee and nuttiness and floral notes and spices, plus some light bitterness. Flavor has a lot going on and I am not really familiar with all of these ingredients so I don’t know what’s what. Average texture. A really interesting beer with a lot going on and it’s pretty tasty with the alcohol well hidden.
9/15/2012. 750 ml. bottle. Pours red-brown with a tan head. Aromas of dark malt, dried fruit, chocolate and coffee. Sweet, sticky flavors with brown sugar and light fruit. Light on hops, but very good balance and complexity.
750ml bottle. Pours a dark ruby, reddish brown color with a two finger light tan fluffy head that lasts and leaves good lacing. The aroma has a floral, herbal characteristic mixing with some chocolate, honey and roasted malts. Taste is caramel and brown sugar up front, nutty, woody, hints of cocoa, toasted grains and roasted dark malts, a light tea-like essence from mid-palate on, with light spices and earthy hops for a relatively dry finish. Medium body and carbonation with a good creamy finish.
Bottle. Pour is a dark amber with white head. Chocolate, dark fruits and really sweet. Solid beer but a full bottle would be too much.
Dark brown pour some tan head. Was super fizzy coming out of the bottle. Aroma of tomato rooibus, roasted nuts, honey, cola. Taste is strongly of rooibus with woody notes some tobacco flavors. Fades into nuts then honey sweet finish. Light-medium watery body with light carb and moderate to strong acidity to help balance. Alcohol is well hidden. Not as sickly sweet as other dubbels = great!
Bottle. Colour...nearly black with a thick white head. Nose...coffee like, herbaceous and savoury spice. Palate...delicate CO2, semi sweet, with flavours of Postum, chicory root, and cola. There’s a distinct but o booze at the back of the palate and a nutty flavour that leans towards filberts. Not sure this is an abbey dubbel, but nice nonetheless.
On tap at BW, light brown, thick creamy head. Unusual aroma, almost coffee like. Taste is a little smokey. Interesting to try, but that is it.
Pours a nice deep red, brown from a distance with some eggshell fizz on the rim. The aroma is great, rich roasted grains, chicory, some Belgian fruits. The flavor is rich and very big. Lots of crazy things going on, sport of a mild Belgian dark porter, with hearty roasted notes, some robust chocolate and dried fruits. At first I could taste the rooibos but it quickly blends nicely into one complete roasted thing. Not much on the Belgian front but the intricacies of it set it apart from American imperial browns and porters and it is totally different that a Belgian mild stout or dubbel. Very good, I would not call it a dubbel, more a blend of an American strong brown ale mixed with a Belgian dark strong ale.
Dark brown and off white head. Aroma is msty and coppery. Taste is sweet and funk. Palate is a little watery, but finishes a little sticky.
Hazy reddish brown. Aroma is toasted grain, toffee, honey, fig, mysterious spices. Sweet on the palate, herbal finish. Taste is tea, nutmeg, honey, chocolate, mysterious spices. Unique and tasty.
Bottle share. Deep brown. Aroma of chocolate, oak, raisin. Taste is woody, dark chocolate, caramel, spices. Complex.
Appearance:
A beautiful brushed tan head covers liquid depths that speak of worn mahogany and cherry woods.
Nose:
Bark, sage, figs, exotic mushrooms. Raw peppercorns in the back. Western saddles and broken in leather. Essence of farm dust and grazing livestock – massive musk without the poop. Taro root. Dried figs, juniper, and black root. Star anise.
Palate:
Out of nowhere I am left with tart apples that pucker the cheeks and tickle the tastebuds. The Wild West meets old Europe meets the herbalist meets the rainforest in a crazy mélange of flavors that tastes of time itself. Very rustic and musky in the back with endless forests of bark, trees, and fallen foliage. Dry brittle parching baker’s chocolate along the edges. Rich spicy earthy peppery Bordeaux and Zinfandel grapes in the middle. A gin-ish essence pervades the palate with star anise while wild mushrooms grow underneath. Caraway seeds. Old red wine soaked leather sacks. A mysterious mixture of green herbs in the middle. Touch of old black earth in the back. Very parching.
Final Thoughts:
A perplexing thought-provoking beer from the folks at Dogfish Head that leaves me still wondering if I liked the beer or I like the experience. Maybe I’ll have to find another bottle to decide. Either way, if Mother Nature and Father Time had a baby, its name would be URKontinent.
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On tap @ Pizza Inferno in SF. Some interesting flavors in this one. Dark, malty, sweet and a little earthy. Good abbey dubbel.
Dark amber colour with a white head. Sweet aroma. Powerful dark malt flavour with hints of red and black licorice. Smooth with some carbination on the tongue.
Bottle from Wegmans Leesburg. Pours brown with a thin khaki head. Nice aromatics on the nose. Definitely malt on the tongue but also other awesome herbs and spices mixed in. This stuff is fucking fantastic.
Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle poured into a tulip. Pours dark brown with big light brown head. Aroma is sweet and roasty. Taste is chocolate, dark belgian sugar, some earthy, some coffee, hint of honey, and hazelnut. Really complex and not that hard to drink. Good dubbel that is also part chocolate stout and part nut brown ale. Becomes more dubbel as it warms and less nut brown ale & chocolate stout.
Bottled 750. Nose is sweet with plenty of rich roast and underlying chocolate, there’s some frozen syrup / candi / molasses for complexity, mild plums, roasted seeds. A really vibrant earthy/grainy feel! Even some sweet malted milk balls. Noisy pour, deepest dark ruby with a frothing tan head. In the mouth, malted milk toward the front and various roastings pushed way to the back, lots more cherry and red berry, light black currants and mineral strokes. Faintest of herbal qualities, somewhat indistinct; very low bitterness and medium sweetness. Medium body yields gentle slow warming and a gorgeous velvety malty feel. I love reading off the special ingredients used, as they’re among my favorite ’occasionals’ in the kitchen; here they go utterly unnoticed in the mouth (though may contribute to some of the roasty aromatics) and prove the gimmick unnecessary -- this is nothing more than a really good dubbel!
Dark brown pour with creamy tan head and lace. Aroma is brown sugar and rock candi. Flavor is sweet brown sugar on the front. Sweet chocolate and a hinto coffee. Light medium bitter finish. Lingering after taste of sweet maltiness.
A very dark-ruby red with a off-white head. The nose is strong with wild sugars and floral notes. The taste is very complex and multi-layered. The candied sugar is difficult to relate to other things. Again Dogfish has struck me with awe and I love it.
Appearance: very dark brown with reddish highlights, a half-finger of tan head, and minimal lacing. Aroma: smells like a dubbel mixed with a roasty coffee stout. Taste: tastes like a belgian dark strong ale with stout-like roast and the herbal character of an old ale or gruit. Finish: lingering dubbel sweetness with a bit of herbal astringency. Notes: Very interesting concept and a solid, but not exceptional execution. Glad I tried it, and I continue to appreciate DFH’s use of interesting ingredients.
Fairly well made dubbel here. Dont know whats so ancient unique or crazy about this. Its just your ol’ run of the mill dubbel with no real flaws. Nutty, spicy and chocolatey.
Interesting looking. Pours hazy copper/brownish hue, reddish and ruby on edges. Looks... inviting? Enticing? Looks GOOD. Smells vaguely honey-ish. Tastes GREAT. Lots of interesting flavors that my blunt palate is floored and confused by. Sweet finish. Must... buy... more!
750ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with small tan head. Aroma of dark fruit, Belgian yeast, chocolate, roasted malt, and earthyness. Taste is roasted malt, chocolate, Belgian yeast, some cherry notes, spice, and some nutty flavors.
Again like any if these big dogfish head beer none of the advertised flavors are there. Great standard double, like it a lot
Uploading old ratings that were missing comments. Lots of sweet malt and tropical fruit. A little jumbled.
Aroma is becks dark but toastier, taste is toasted nutty Belgian becks dark with a touch of cherry, and a floral whiff, finishes tootsie roll laced with cherry caramel notes. if you remember Pete’s wicked ale from early mid nineties, there’s some notion of that sans hops.
Edit: I really criticize dogfish head BC or price. Burton baton and 90 are phenomenal. I like the idea for a lot of DF beers, but I like beer more. Their beers are delicious, their ideas are genious, the two dont always meet up. This time they kinda did too well. Wish this wasn’t so balanced.can also be described as a session ale you can’t session, and an exotically flavored ale with too many overtones of simplicity.
"Smuttynose brown dog ale on acid"
750mL bottle, bottled in 2012B, opened on the last night in my 1st house. Pours dark red, orange, and brown; small foamy beige head. Aromas of esters upfront, with banana and clove. Oats and roasty malt are present, with molasses, honey, clover, raisin, and some burnt toffee and coffee. Cocoa, chocolate, and nuts in the periphery. The flavor is cocoa and gourd first, with, spices and chocolate; this moves to cocoa and fudge, honey and vanilla, and a lingering cocoa finish, with an espresso aftertaste. Low/medium carbonation, slightly warming. Really nice; earthy and rustic. [1138]
Draft at crunchy's. Dark copper with a small head. Tons of competing aromas and flavors of honey and dark fruits and sugars. I was left thinking I liked it.
3rd June 2012
Very dark brown beer, reddish. Good pale tan head. Nose of nuts and spicy unsweet bubblegum. Smooth, semi dry palate. Mild fine carbonation. Smooth dry malt, soft. A minty coolness. Mild and subtle red berry fruits. Spicy bubblegum and banana ester. Subtle nuts. A fairly dry finish. Unusual complex beer, tasty.