67 – Dogfish Head Squall IPA
Special delivery from Uncle Crappy over the summer, I finally got around to crackin this one open. 2 of my favorite things, Dogfish Head and an IPA. Hopefully I don’t get sea sick.
**I hosted a beer tasting last night at Bocktown Beer & Grill and didn’t get home till way late. If you came out, thanks! If not, chug a Bud as your penance you heathen!**
Dogfish Head Squall
brewery: Dogfish Head – dogfish.com
beer website: http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/squall-ipa.htm
style: Imperial IPA
abv: 9.0%
serving size: 750ml
glass used: snifter
price: $11.99
Overview
I could tell you about it but instead I’ll leave it to head pimp of Dogfish Head, Sam Calagioni 
What I think
This starts out with an unusual aroma to it. It smells stale. The pour was epic so I was thinking that maybe my smeller was on the fritz. Took a step back and savored the moment because honestly it was beer porn. LOOK at that picture! It’s heaven… but unfortunately the taste wasn’t. At first was in love with the hop punch to my face but by the time I was done with the first glass it went from “wooohooo!” to “zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!”. That’s right. Boring as all hell. The beer turned bland and I was disappointed. I’d tell you the flavors and all my usual jazz but there was none of that. It ranks up with Killer Penguin boring.
I talked to a few friends about their bottles and the overall opinion was that I may have had a bad one. I know I’m not going to like everything from a brewery but this one felt from the get-go that something was off. Since this is such a rare beverage to get in SWPA does anyone wanna send me some to revisit 
Spoon’s rating: C -
Hart Said,
December 3, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
You said all you needed to say about it in the first line, any hop forward beer should be consumed within 60 days of packaging for optimum hoppy goodness.
spoon Said,
December 3, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
Unfortunately there was no way to tell how long it was sitting on the shelf. I was reading on Beer Advocate that there is a dating system I could have checked but I already tossed the bottle.
Dave Said,
December 3, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
While Squall isn’t great it sounds like that bottle was missing a lot. Might of waited to long. Wonder when they are doing a new batch. Not sure if they are though. When I had it, it was pretty damn decent. Like a more unbalanced 90 minute.
spoon Said,
December 3, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
I was curious also so I looked around and found
“The beer first came out in June of 2009 in a handful of eastern seaboard states, a second 2009 release started shipping to wholesalers in November 2009. A more wide-spread release of Squall IPA is planned for 2010.”
Hart Said,
December 3, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
Squall is supposedly 90 Minute in a bottle conditioned 750mL bottle. Dogfish Head does date every bottle, should have been a laser printed bottled on date on the bottle neck, although I’ve seen a lot of blurred dates.
spoon Said,
December 7, 2009 @ 9:56 am
Wow really? I really need to get another bottle but of the new batch and try this out again.