#62 – DogFish 60 Minutes – IPA Beer

About the Beer:

Pours a yellow-gold body with a light orange cast and is lighter than most IPAs. It is quite hazy as it is bottle conditioned and after pouring it leaves a half finger slightly off-white head with good retention and lacing.The nose is nicely hoppy, primarily the citrus and evergreen variety, but with an underlying assertive, spicy quality as well. American IPA’s are illustrious for their bold, brazen pageantry of hops. Although this Beer is intended to show a little more restraint than its bigger brother “the 90 Minute IPA”, it still manages to be quite the spectacle with pungent, earthy hop cones being on full display.

It’s pretty aggressively hopped, but the bittering seems out of proportion than the actual hop flavor. It’s not bad, mind you, though with this degree of tongue-tweaking bitterness, I would expect the hop taste to be fairly exploding across my tongue. After the first sip, the first thing I noticed was that this beer was fresh. It is extremely important to drink IPA beers fresh. Next, this beer is considerably better on draft than in a bottle. That being said, 60 minute IPA is much tastier than I expected. This beer has a unique flavor and stakes out territory different than many other IPAs, but doesn’t quite rise to the level of some of my favorites. However, it’s enjoyable and I really am looking forward to trying its bigger brothers 90 minutes and 120 minutes IPAs. Overall, 60 Minute is the quintessential session IPA and very different than other IPAs that I have had. I am sure you all have one question in mind. “What is 60 Minutes IPA?”. As per the DogFish Brewery – “this Beer is Brewed using a boatload of intense Northwest hops, boil this continually hopped IPA for a full 60 minutes, adding more than 60 hop additions continuously to create a bold and timeless flavor”

As Far As I Am Concerned, If You Love A Good IPA, You Love Hops. Therefore If You Are Looking For A Great IPA, You Are Looking For Rich, Crisp, And Delicious Hop Characteristics In Your Beer. And The Unfortunate Reality Is That A Massive Number Of IPAs Available Today Fall Into The Weak-Fizzy-Fake-IPA Category. The Category Of India Pale Ale Has Become More Of A Marketing Scheme Than Actual Beer Style Amongst The World’s Largest Brewers. Worse Than That, All This False Advertising Has Mislead And Confused Consumers And Beer Drinkers Everywhere As To What An India Pale Ale Really Is!

History

Dogfish Head Brewery is a brewing company based in Milton, Delaware founded by Sam Calagione.It opened in 1995 and produces 262,000 barrels of beer annually. The brewery has featured prominently in the documentary Beer Wars and was the subject of the Discovery Channel series Brew Masters. Dogfish Head tends to produce experimental or “extreme” beers, such as the tongue-in-cheek “Liquor de Malt”, a bottle-conditioned malt liquor, which typically comes in a Dogfish Head brown paper bag. Dogfish Head products often use non-standard ingredients, such as green raisins in Raison D’Être ale. Some beers, including the WorldWide Stout, 120 Minute India Pale Ale and the raspberry-flavored strong ale Fort, are highly alcoholic, reaching 18% to 20% alcohol by volume (typical beers have around 3% to 7% alcohol by volume)