Dogfish head NOT 90 minutes IPA

So there has been this dogfish head IPA in the very back of my refrigerator for about 5 or 6 weeks now, and I have occasionally been thinking about pulling it out and drinking it. Unfortunately, being on a limited budget, I can't afford to drink $2-$3 beers just willy-nilly, so I have been saving this for some time when I can really enjoy it. I have had a number of major tests and practicals over the past few weeks, but this Friday I finally had some free time. To complete the event, I had the celtics vs. rockets game that I wanted to watch.

Thanks to a professor scheduling conflict, I got the afternoon off. I got home about 1:45 (I had a meeting that run long over lunch). I turned on the game and popped a frozen pizza in the microwave oven (ya, I am lazy, but you know what they say about pizza...) Anyhow, I pulled out what I expected to be my favorite beer- a dogfish head 90 minute IPA, only to find it deficient by about 30 minutes. Ya, looks like I decided to save the 60 cents and got the 60 minute IPA NOT the 90 minute IPA. Although, both of them are regularly sold out when I go to my local brew store, so maybe the 60 minute was the only choice.

But enough with the extraneous details, on to the BEER! Dogfish head 60-minute IPA is, obviously, an IPA. I get it for $1.99 from toast, where they let me buy individual bottles without a markup for breaking a sixpack. They call it "build your own 6-pack." The alchohol content is 6%. You can check out all the details at beer advocate.

I poured this beer into a pint glass (really the only beer glass I own, so to me, its the right glass for all beers!), and got basically no head. Typically I got a decent 1/2 to 1 and 1/2 inch head on this beer, but this time I got nothing but a little foam around the edge. Weird.

The first taste started somewhat watery, and had a hard, almost bitter hops taste. Maybe I was still expecting that smoother maltyness of the 90 minute IPA, or maybe this bottle was getting a little old, I dunno. Fortunately, as I progressed through this bottle, the taste really evened out and got smoother.

After eating some cheap pizza and giving my beer some time to mellow out, I started to taste more of the familiar flavors in this beer. This beer has a fairly bold taste to start with a very hoppy finish that I would describe as "piney." I have no idea why, but it tastes like I would expect pine hops to taste.

I was pretty tired from the week, and watching basketball combined with the alcohol was just enough to put me into a dazed coma, and I fell asleep sometime near the end of the 4th quarter of the celtics game. When I woke up I had about an inch of beer left. The final swig was the best.

The 60 minute IPA is my second favorite sub $2 IPA (after Great Divide Titain IPA). This particular experience was not as good as some of my others, but it was still enjoyable, and left me wanting more.