hahaha yeah I'm telling you, that was my first reaction.
I was thinking about it more last night, and now I firmly believe that this was a screw up on Dogfish's part. I think that something went wrong, and instead of dumping it out and taking the loss, they slapped the label on it and shipped it out. That's a strong accusation, but this beer is so simple and weak compared to all the other DH brews I've had that I don't think it's an outlandish explanation.
I can say that I've tasted 90% of the DH beers out there, and this one is not remotely related. DH has always produced complex brews, especially for tributes like this, but this one is bleh. Just plain bleh. No complexity whatsoever.
As a Pearl Jam and DH fan, I'm as disappointed as could possibly be.
Let me know what you think bknifefight, because I really couldn't get Mex lager out of my head.