Latest Reviews

Double Dry Hopped pseudoSue
Toppling Goliath
Spaceman
Brewfist
Modus Vivendi
Wild Beer Co.

Recent Articles

Outdoor Winter Tippling Tips
Stay safe from the pandemic and stay warm with these winter patio drinking tactics. Shameless
Craft brewer sellouts become as tone-deaf and underhanded as their new overlords. Great Taste Eve
Check out the burgeoning Madison beer scene the night before the best fest in country. Good Beer Makes Good Conversation
The effects of drinking beer worth talking about. The Beers of Walmart
The largest retailer in the world now has its own line of beers. archives »

Beer Reviews

Fort

Dogfish Head
Milton, DE
USA
http://www.dogfish.com

Style: Fruit Beer
ABV: 18.0%

Franz’s Rating:
   (Outstanding within its style.)


Comments:
It’s Super Bowl Sunday. A day when all Americans can enjoy good eats, root for a team that might not be their team (like the Packers), and drink some good beer. I decided to splurge and try a brew that the wife and I can enjoy on this day of all days. Twenty George Washingtons later, I have a beer from Dogfish Head to sample called Fort.

The label states it is raspberry ale that is brewed with a ton of raspberries. No it’s not just an expression. It’s actually brewed with 2,500 lbs. of raspberries that are added incrementally after the brewing process. This adds more fermentable sugars, which makes this the world’s strongest fruit beer. This bad boy is 18 percent ABV and it sure tastes like it. Although if you ask my wife, she says it is not too bad. Now I don’t know if she is drunk already but I’ll say the taste is highly alcoholic and fruity. Not much more to say because these two characteristics are in full effect.

I write this review to express my level of versatility towards reviewing all beer styles. I am not a fruit beer fan like Jill, but I’m willing to try anything once. All in all, this is a pretty smooth tasting ale that expresses the level of imagination that the people of Dogfish Head provide. As I was thinking about purchasing this at the store I toyed with the idea of comparing it to Raspberry Tart by New Glarus. After finishing the bottle with my wife I will have to say they are equally great, but you will find nothing in common between the two.

Prosit


Reviewed by Franz Mueller on February 4, 2008.

Drinkin’ And Thinkin’

Beer Dorks News

Want to know how healthy the craft beer industry is? As always, look to Portland. Craft pioneer Bridgeport announces sudden closure, adding to a growing list of PDX casualties. Did Anheuser-Busch Chicago offer their shit beer to Cody Parkey before his missed field goal? Because that may explain why he "accidentally" biffed it. Chicago now has the most breweries of any city in the country. Other things Chicago has the most of: murders, mobsters, and Ditkas. Trying to spin it positive, BA releases end of year graphic. Only 5% growth in the craft sector when nearly 1000 new breweries opened? That's a collapse waiting to happen. R.I.P. Tallgrass... another casualty as the regional/national craft beer market continues to get squeezed. Wait... Constellation Brands cut all of the Ballast Point and Funky Buddha sales staff? They merged it with their Corona/Modelo staff?? We're SHOCKED!!! Pizza Beer founder crying about failure of company, blames everyone else. Reminder, the beer tasted like vomit. Try having better ideas or making better products so you're not a failure. It's Bud Light so doesn't really matter, but we expect this beer to be sitting around for awhile. Indiana brewery to open with controversial beer names to "get the conversation going". Translation: taking advantage of serious issues for free publicity. Hundreds of amazing beers in Wisconsin and the Cubs took back the one everyone drinks just because it exists and people have heard of it. How fitting...