Booze Reviews: Wrath of Pecant!!!

Subject: Wrath of Pecant

Brewing Company: Dogfish Head

ABV: 6.00%

Location of Purchase: Pinocchio's Garden in Media, PA (9/3/10)

Date of Consumption: 9/5/10

Analysis: The guy I always mention from Pinocchio's Beer Garden still maintains a 1.000% batting average when it comes to recommending new stuff for me to try. I wanted something special for the holiday weekend and the dude grabbed me a bottle of Wrath of Pecant, a collaboration brew between the Alstrom brothers from Beer Advocate and Dogfish Head. The result is a beer that tastes just as good as its' hilariously punny name. While it is the most expensive single bottle of beer I have ever purchased, this might very well be the greatest beer I have had in a long time, maybe even my life. Yeah it's that good.

The beer contains a malt taste with a touch of smokiness. I enjoy smoked-flavored beer, but this was the perfectly balanced accent of smoked flavor that I have ever experienced. The pecan taste is mixed in there as well but, like the other flavors my pallet detected, it was not overbearing. Light head after the pour. If you tracked this one down, congratulations. Unfortunately it is not for sale outside of Delaware where the Dogfish Head brewery is located, but I was lucky enough to enjoy its deliciousness in the confines of The Man-Cave, based on lucky availability and a bullseye recommendation. It is a limited edition, which means that I am going to have problems pulling off a repeat performance and drinking some more.

Buzz Factor: It seems a lot stronger than the 6.00% ABV advertisement and will give you a good, clean fuzzy feeling once the whole bottle has been drained. The price tag you pay is high, but it is worth the extra change that you would spend on other beer in its class. For example, I enjoyed the Wrath of Pecant along with three other beers in the same caliber and all I could think about was wishing the other two were more Pecants the whole time. So if there is an honest testimonial needed for this review, that was it.

Some side notes include that the beer was named based on votes from the Beer Advocate community and a play on words from Star Trek II's title, The Wrath of Kahn. The original title was going to be Wrath of Pecan, based on the pecan in the beer, but legally issues forced them into adding the "t" to the end of Pecant. Doesn't matter to me. They could call this The Wrath of the Colon and I'd still line up to get some more.