Dry Dock HMS Bounty Old Ale

Brewed by Dry Dock Brewing Co.
Style: Old Ale
Aurora, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Pours reddish brown with off white head and very little lacing. Aroma of bread and toffee malts. Taste is figs, dark fruit, and burnt brown sugar. A decent old English ale.

This beer is a lot like their poor Richard. It is , however, sweeter. I am not sure I like it that way.

On tap at the brewery, very true to style but I’m not a fan of the style. Overly sweet.

Tap. Pour is orange/amber. Aroma of dark fruit and malt. Taste is sweet. Body is medium.

Cask. Pours clear ruby with average, fizzy off-white head; good retention and spare lacing. Aroma is figs, dates, floral notes, cookie malt, caramel, grass, and fresh dough. Flavor is balanced sweet malts and dark fruit esters with faint hops and light grassy notes; dry finish. Medium body and low carbonation.

On tap at the brewery in Aurora, CO. Pours a cloudy, darker brown colored body with a finger-width, dense, creamy and frothy, tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is slightly malty sweet with some dark fruits. A bit of a breadiness with a light brown sugar and a touch of molasses. Some cherry-raisin, prune, and a touch of earth. Flavor is similar. Molasses stands out a bit more with a good amount of bready, medium sweet malts with some caramel cookies and a light chocolate. A moderate dark fruit note with more raisin than cherry-raisin and some prunes. A light toast towards the end with a bit of a tobacco and brown sugar before this finishes smooth and slightly dry with a light bitterness and chewy sweetness. Fairly lengthy aftertaste following a smooth, medium body and a soft, moderate carbonation. Overall, I was a fan of this. Very smooth and soft malts with a nice dark fruitiness that finishes dry, but sweet and balanced. Good beer.

on tap-pours a light tan head with hazy copper color. Aroma is medium malt with some sweet, some fruit. Taste is medium malt with some sweet caramel, some fruit/spice hops.

taster tray at Dry Dock on 11/19/11. clear copper pour with a small off white head. rich caramel / malt nose. med body with sweet malts - somewhat 1 dimensional. sweet finish with dark fruits. too sweet overall.

Sample at the brewpub. The beer pours a cloudy amber color with a medium thin off-white head that evaporates steadily. Rings of lacing on the glass. Toasted malt, caramel and mild hops in the nose. Medium body with a caramel malt character and notes of floral hops and fruit. The finish is grainy malt with a lingering sweetness. Decent overall.

Pours dark reddish brown, thin off white head. Aroma has notes of toffee, vanilla, some dark fruit, and a touch of aged hops. Taste is thin, with some notes of dark fruit, toffee, and some very sweet vanilla, finishing slightly dry.