Drinking It All: #22 Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale
Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It’s a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it’s the means, not the end that counts here.
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'off-centered' brown ale. 'off-centered' is a trademark of Dogfish Head Brewery
Today I’ve got another Dogfish Head beer to write about–an Indian Brown Ale. This beer somewhat resembles another famous brown ale: Newcastle, but it’s hoppier and has 7.2% ABV. So it’s a bigger beer all around.
(I realized after I opened the beer up that my last post was a Dogfish Head as well, and I aim to spread beers from the same brewery out more. But it’s already open, so what the hell.)
You’ve probably read what I’ve written about Dogfish Head previously (or else you haven’t and should go back and read all my previous posts, dammit), so you might figure that I’ll have good things to say about this beer. And you’d be correct. This is a solid, heavy beer.
The taste, like I said before, resembles Newcastle a little. It tastes even more like Lazy Magnolia’s Southern Pecan, which is also a brown ale made with, obviously, pecans. I think the high alcohol in the Indian Brown Ale lends it a little more sweetness than a regular brown ale usually has. Also, there are more hops in this beer than a regular brown ale would probably have.
The beer smells sweet, too. The label explains that the beer is made with aromatic barley, caramelized brown sugar and Liberty and Goldings hops. So the brown sugar, I think, is one of the sources of the sweetness. And, holy shit, this beer is dark. It’s Guinness-dark, which is considerably darker than most brown ales I’ve ever had. It’s so dark that calling it a brown ale, I’m sure, has more to do with how the beer was made than its actual color.
*And we all know that we shouldn’t really even classify the beers we like or don’t by the color alone.*
This Indian Brown Ale is a good beer that, if you can find, you should try. It’s also, like most of the Dogfish Head beers, one that you’ll probably only drink one or maybe two of in a sitting (so much for someone’s three beers in-a-sitting rule).
Thumbs up or thumbs down? Brown ales aren’t usually my favorite, but this one is ‘off-centered’ enough to be pretty memorable.
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