The movie-centric packaging is the third of our 2021 Off-Centered Art Series illustrations done by our Art Series Artist, Ryan Besch! This whimsical beach scene is all about capturing the stars of the show, while also giving a nod to the iconic firetowers that line the coastline in our homestate of Delaware! The result is a fruit-forward libation with sweet mango and vanilla flavor on the front and a subtle, warm spice finish. Inspired by the fruit-based Indian drink lassi, Dogfish Head Mango Smoovie is a tart ale brewed with boatloads of mango and tangerine, lactose, vanilla, a touch of rose water and yellow cardamom. Wait, Mango Smoovie? Do you know this brand? From the Dogfish Head website: I find the matching of the music with the bottling images very pleasing. Now it’s Monday morning, and I can’t convince my brain to do its brainin’, so I’ve settled for just looking at my screen, zoning out, watching Dogfish Head’s bottling line package its Mango Smoovie brand. The family feigned yardwork as an excuse to sit outside and play. But because our weather is schizophrenic, this weekend was gorgeous. It’s mid-May, and last weekend it snowed - on Mother’s Day. Very well made as expected of the brewery.A nice weekend in Cleveland, Ohio, is a rare thing. Plenty of fruit flavor with balanced lacto complexity and malt/lactose presence. Quite strong on spice but not overwhelming. Mild warmth of 6.5% and lingering spice heat after the finish. Lingering bitter/tart drying, minimal astringency. Balanced bready/grainy malt, sticky spice, and lactic acid mouthfeel. Medium-high carbonation, medium body, and fairly crisp/clean finishing. Moderate fruity/lactic tartness, cardamom spice, and herbal/grassy bitterness on the finish. Aromas and flavors of tangerine/mango juice, lemon, lime, green apple, grape, citrus peel, cardamom, mint, peppercorn, wheat, bread dough, cracker, rose water, vanilla, cream, herbal, floral, grass, and light lacto funk/yeast earthiness. Some clinging bubbles and streaming carbonation on the glass. Pours opaquely hazy/cloudy orange/mango color with no head retention or lacing. Apr 22, 2021ġ2 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before Sept 2021. if you're here, digging mango and maybe looking for dogfish head to stretch it out a bit, this is it, your sign for the good time. 10 outta 10 would do again, and aggressively suggest that you too, dear reader, make the leap and go in on that full pack instead of the single. again, that vanilla and spice and citrus and slight lactose really just took this thing to the moon for me. this checked all the boxes and landed beautifully, even giving me an IDEAL or benchmark on how I perceive mango in beer, which was already one of my favorite flavors/fruits to find in brews as it was. been waiting for a dogfish that weirded up close to how they rolled during that weird run around 2014-16 really getting out there with flavor combos. It's one complicated mango and I love the hell out of it. Mouthfeel is juicy with lower-mid-level carbonation and medium-thicc body that runs smooth and a little pithy and finishing slightly crisp and clean with an aromatic and funky aftertaste that definitely reminds you what you just drank for like the next several moments. like, why is mango juice not just like this already? it oughta be. that citrus and vanilla and spice and lactose funk truly kick this thing to another dimension. this is THICCC juicy af and then some like c'mon. Taste follows that up but with the juice cranked to 11. this is all surrounded by a subtle lactose hug and capped with aromatic and earthy vanilla. then there are spritzy citrus fireworks going off sporadically, launching the tangerine forward. it's super floral (thanks rose water little goes a long way!) and there's a touch of spice that complicates things. if that sounds terrible, you're wrong - my mouth is watering.Īroma is a super clean and funky and juicy and floral mango. the head is excited but lasts all of 3 seconds before disappearing entirely, leaving only a few fairly large sud-looking-bubbles and showing no lacing whatsoever. Pours a super thick and hazy grapefruit or apple juice looking body, a pale burnt-orange almost.
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