A cross between a Scotch Ale, an I.P.A., and an American Brown, this beer is well-hopped and malty at the same time. It is brewed with Aromatic barley and caramelized brown sugar.

7.2% abv

50 ibu

Tasting Notes: Notes of molasses, coffee, ginger, raisinettes, chocolate.

Food Pairing recommendations: Balsamic vinaigrette salads, smoked meats, duck confit, braised ribs, venison, prosciutto, stews.

Glassware recommendation: Pint

Wine comparable: Shiraz

In case you care... the average 12 oz. serving has 238 calories.

From the May 12, 2008 issue of Modern Brewery Age Weekly:

" Indian Brown Ale, Highly Recommended - An extraordinary brown ale, or something completely different? This is a mysterious darkish 7.2% abv ale on the cusp of being a porter. Aroma of rich, dark spicy bread with hints of sugary sweetness, bursting with flavors of coffee, fruit, and chocolate.

"What is this?" Robert Lachman asked. "It can't be a brown ale, there is too much going on. All this, dark fruit, caramelized brown sugar... Maybe this is a triple brown? It's so delicious, you just have to drink it and forget about style."

"At least a double brown ale," Gregg Glaser agreed. "Rich, malty nose, and all this great malty flavor."

This sample was bought in the trade, and sampled blind. Von Bair disagreed with this approach, given the beer the producer. "You should announce any beer that is Dogfish Head before we taste it," Von Boar groused. "We should know going into it that it won't be a beer bound by style."

"Extremely original!" Dr. Victor said, "and so damn good!"

A deep, mahogany ale brewed with beet sugar, green raisins, and Belgian-style yeast. As complex as a fine, red wine. Voted "American Beer of the Year" in January 2000 by Malt Advocate Magazine

8% abv

36 ibu

Tasting Notes: Notes of pit fruit, decadent, winey, raisiney, malty.

Food Pairing recommendations: Steak, duck, game, wine-reduction sauces, Blue cheese, ham, mussels.

Glassware recommendation: Goblet or Snifter

Wine comparable: Amarone

In case you care... the average 12 oz. serving has 220 calories.

This recipe is the actual oldest-known fermented beverage in the world! Our recipe showcases the known ingredients of barley, white Muscat grapes, honey & saffron found in the drinking vessels in King Midas' tomb! Somewhere between a beer, wine and mead, this smooth, dry ale will please with Chardonnay or I.P.A. drinker alike.

9.0% abv

20 ibu

Calorie content (per 12-ounce serving): approx. 307

Tasting Notes: Honey, saffron, papaya, melon, biscuity, succulent.

Food pairing recomendations: Pan-Asian dishes, risotto, curries, baked fish and chicken.

Glass recommendation: White Wine

Comparable wine style: Sauterne Champagne

If you like our Midas Touch, try our Zwaanend'ale - it has some similar honey characteristics! Of course, you'll have to come to Delaware during the 2006 375th Anniversary celebration because the beer is limited release (only in Delaware, only in 2006!)

More on Midas... His golden touch may have conferred fabulous wealth on King Midas, but he nearly starved to death when even his food and drink were converted into the precious metal. The well-known legend is based on an actual ruler of the ancient kingdom of Phrygia in central Turkey around 700 B.C. Under a huge mound at the capital of Gordion, a University of Pennsylvania Museum expedition in 1957 excavated an intact burial chamber which likely belonged to King Midas himself. The body of a 60-year-old male was laid out in state on a thick pile of purple and blue-dyed textiles inside a unique log coffin.

Most remarkably, the tomb held the largest Iron Age drinking set ever found--157 vessels, including a ram-headed and lion-headed situla--for preparing, serving, drinking and libating a special beverage at the funerary feast of the king. The secrets of the beverage were revealed by the new methods of Molecular Archaeology. Dr. Patrick McGovern of the Museum discovered that the residues inside the vessels belonged to a "Phrygian cocktail," which combined grape wine, barley beer and honey mead. Starting with the ancient chemical evidence, Dogfish Head Brewery "re-created" a marvelous golden elixir, truly touched by King Midas.

Here are just some of the comments made about Midas Touch by world-renown beer expert, Michael Jackson... "A wonderfully complex beer, a wonderfully delicate beer, a dangerous thing, a great drink to welcome people to a party... Fill your bath full of ice, put some bottles of Midas Touch on there a serve it in champagne flutes. Not some freak of nature, not some gimmick, it's something to be taken very seriously... It used to be wine... but King Midas touched it and turned it to gold!

CHEERS!