When you think of craft beer, you really think of only a few breweries. Dogfish Head has to be one of them. Whether you loved Brew Masters, can’t go to the local bottle shop without picking up 60 or 90 minute IPA, love Punkin Ale, or simply sit at the brewery or brew pubs for hours at a time, this brewery isn’t going away for a long time. One of the breweries that really got me into craft beer (and the brewery that boasts the first beer I ever reviewed on Beeradvocate), Dogfish Head is the brewery of choice this week. Specifically, at a tasting this week I got to try Wrath of Pecant. The description taken from Beeradvocate:
A collaboration between the Alström brothers, Sam Calagione and Bryan Selders, brewed for EBF and named by the BeerAdvocate community. It’s a brownish ale brewed w/ malt smoked over pecan wood and fermented w/ plantains and carob. Congrats to BA “strangefate” and his winning entry: Wrath of Pecan; 6.0%
Originally named “Wrath of Pecan” before it’s release.
The name was changed to Pecant after some legal issues involving the fact that it had no pecans in the beer, it was only aged on Pecan wood. Which I appreciate being allergic to tree nuts.
Brown pour with hints of yellow and a white head that laces nicely. The oak barrels leave a very nice aroma on this. Smokey and malty. Pecan barrels? It shows. The smokiness really takes the taste over. Hints of molasses, malts, caramel, but very smoky. Medium body, although you’d expect it to be lighter. A bit boozey on the back-end. This was tasty. It wasn’t phenomenally good, but interesting nonetheless.
