Abita Turbodog

Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Covington, Louisiana USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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On tap at Tibby’s New Orleans Kitchen in Winter Park, Fl. Not much of a head, what I would call medium body (not heavy like the imperial stouts). I couldn’t really smell it very well due to the surroundings, but it was wonderful to the taste! Had a great chocolatey, coffee flavor and it was a little bit lighter so you could really drink a good size pint of it with dinner and not get overly full. I think it was a really good beer!

Mahognyfärgad öl. Malt och rostade toner i doften. En bra balans mellan maltsötma, rostade toner och en nötig bitterhet. Hade jag kunnat dricka fler av.

Mörk röd kropp med ljúsbrunt skum. I aromen finns både mörk choklad och nötter. Smaken, som är riktigt fin, har mörk choklad och ingefära som dominerande toner. Detta vill jag dricka mer av.

Pours a deep reddish brown color with a medium sized head and good lacing on the glass.

The aroma is nutty and lightly roasty with some vanilla and a kind of odd dirty malt character.

The flavor is roasty and sort of green tasting with a mild bitterness and some light fruity flavors. The beer gets nuttier as it warms.

Bottle. Pour dark clear brown. Good head retention, tan, between creamy and fizzy. Medium malt, low hop.

dark reddish brown with a small beige head. rich toffee aroma. some sweetness and slight hint of alcohol. not my go to style, but a nice change of pace. pretty good.

Gorgeous dark red/deep brown, shiny ruby-red with a quick thin creamy tan head that dissipates fast. Moderate lacing. Pleasant nose of rich caramel malted barley, some fruits, nuts and faint citrus. Very pleasing to the nose, yet a little underwhelming. Nice creamy malt feel, faint traces of nuts and fruit, no hop presence. Body is relatively light/thin, maybe a little watery, average carbonation. A satisfying English Brown Ale, nothing to get super-excited about, but not bad.

Bottle. The pour was a dark murky brown with an average sized (1-2 finger) light brown head that receded into a few puddles of residue that produced some good spotty lacing. The aroma was of a dark roasted malt, a mild resin hop and an earthy yeast with notes of chocolate, coffee, molasses and a hint of toffee. The taste was lightly sweet and superbly malty with notes of chocolate and molasses from the start with the finish having a mild hoppy taste and a nice dose of coffee at the end. The flavor lasted a nice long time letting the malty coffee flavor which had a hint of hoppiness, settle in. Mouthfeel was medium in body with the texture being rather creamy and having a mild carbonation. Overall a bold, robust, full tasting brew that had just a light hint of hops which offset everything rather nicely.

Bottle - pours dark brown with a tan head that dissipates fairly quickly. Has a light coffee aroma, a roasted malt taste and a clean mouthfeel. Seemed more like a stout than an ale but pretty good overall.

I love dark beers and this was no exception. Turbodog is a great beer, but it’s more of a porter than a brown ale. It’s a very rich and delicious beer.