Flying Dog Dogtoberfest

Good head with a tinge of pink on top a ruby red or more a redwood like colour,aroma caramel,toffeeearthyness honey,chocolate,flavour nutty caramel toffee nice bitter in with the malt,a session ale,finish nice mix of malt and bitter to the palate.

Deep amber pour. Thin head. The nose is sweet and loaded with caramel and toffee. Why do I keep buying American-brewed Octoberfests expecting them to taste like real ones?

Pours caramel in color with a lite thin off white head.. With aroma of golden raisin and caramel. Flavor is mild and caramel over all a good beer

Pours caramel in color with a lite thin off white head.. With aroma of golden raisin and caramel. Flavor is mild and caramel over all a good beer

Poured from bottle into tall glass. Copper-amber with bubbly head that recedes without hardly any lacing. Aroma of dark fruit, metal, slight caramel, and only a touch of toast or biscuit. Somewhat different smell for a Marzen. Caramel and dark fruit malts, with just a little toast in the background. Slight spicy hop counterbalance at the end. Little bit of a funny aftertaste. Moderate carbonation, medium body, just barely dry (I prefer drier for the style). Nice, flavorful, and easy to drink. It is certainly a German lager, but I am not sure it is a Marzen, almost more like a lower bitterness Vienna or a lower abv Bock. I am not too much of a stickler for style, so I like it.

Clear dark amber body with a thin lasting off-white head. Overall sweet, nutty aroma with caramel and a touch of grass. Smooth and creamy with average carbonation. Interesting but quite nice flavor. Caramel sweetness along with some tea fades to a mildly bitter finish. Very tasty.

Bottle from the Coop in Davis, CA. Pours clear copper with a four-finger off-white head. Interesting aromas of caramel and something lightly spicey or grassy. About medium in body with mild, near creamy, carbonation. Flavor is almost like tea, but then caramel and fruit. Finish is sweet, but lightly so. The somewhat bitter tea aspect balances. Overall, though, it’s malty. Quite good.

Bottle. Nice looking. Smells a bit like a pale ale. Taste is malty and sour, then bitter. Little bland, little thin. But if I were pounding beers I wouldn’t mind this one.