Dogfish Head 120 minutes IPA tasted in Belgium

: This was one of my best beer taste moments ever. Truely outstanding stuff : !!!

I have a few to trade -- want to work out a deal and ship me equal value in Ichtegem's?

If you're a hophead, I think you'd like the 90-min IPA much better. Same bitterness perception as the 120, but not cloyingly sweet. Drinking the

120 min made my teeth hurt from all the residual sugar in the beer. I payed $10 for a 12oz bottle and now wish I had bought 2 more 90-min bottles instead. Warren Place

What are "whole leaf hops"? No hop leaves are used in brewing. The flower, also known as the cone or the bud, is used. Petals and lupulin glands are the individual parts of the flower. No leaves! :)

nb

Eh semantics.

Hops available to me as a homebrewer:

pellets plugs whole-leaf

Indeed.

Where'd you look, the phone book? Google turns up a ton (in 0.20 seconds!) with the following search: "whole leaf" hops Here's three:

Of course, you get all kinds of hits with this search, too: "whole flower" hops

But I like this guy's take on it: "Whole hops (you may hear them referred to as "whole leaf" or "whole flower")..." He's at:

Now we can ALL be happy. Or not. Whatever.

I concede defeat! :\

Exhibit No 1: The Picture

.....scroll down, note term "bract".

Exhibit No 2:

Oh well, live and learn! :)

nb

Oh, you're RIGHT, there's no question about it. But most of the brewers and homebrewers I know call 'em whole leaf. No biggie.

Its been said here before but having recently tried the 120 (and I love the 60 and 90) I too will agree that it is far to cloying. It might be interesting and mildly enjoyable about 3 ounces at a time but as it was I could only finish half of it and left the other half on the bar (and washed the taste out of my mouth with a pint of Hop Ottin') I did find it at a bar for only $6 a bottle though so I didn't feel too bad about not finishing it.

mike