Our Tastes-- Dogfish Head Midas Touch Golden Elixir

Well if Sam Calagione is anything, he's inventive. Midas Touch, is a replication of the actual oldest-known recipe of fermented beverage in the world. Made with barley, white Muscat grapes, honey & saffron this brew is truly an innovation reborn. Santa Claus brought me a couple of new Rogue tasting goblets so that's what I using and I'll have to say the color is unique and breathtaking. The color reminds me of The Bees' Knees that is currently fermenting (still wide open!) in my brew room. It has a slightly cloudy light orange hue. The head completely dissipates to flatness with a couple of small patches of thin white foam (like a pond that has duck weed in it). A University of Pennsylvania expedition opened a tumulus (burial mound) that likely contained King Midas and some serving vessels in Turkey. Of course we all the story of Midas and nearly starving to death and turning his daughter to gold after Dionysus gave him the golden touch. The taste of this stuff is truly confounding. The nose as you take it in is that of southern muscadines (or scupanons) and slight honey, then leads to a dry taste with little hop (or well-balanced with the honey). A very neat bevvy. Plus drinking it out of a goblet makes you feel king-like. At 9%abv and 307kcal, a four pack of these will have you calling for the royal house cat to see if it likes your golden member;)