Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Frederick, Maryland USA

12 oz bottle from Annie Baileys in Lancaster, PA. Poured deep brown with a large tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted coffee, and chocolate. Tastes of strong roasted malts, chocolate, coffee with a nice dry finish and mouth feel. I don’t think this bottle was 9.2% and if it was the alcohol was well hidden.

Bottled. Pours nearly black with a large foamy tan head. The aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, fruity, and hoppy. The flavor is dominated by roasted malts and strong bitter dark chocolate. Notes of black coffee and some hoppiness make their way in. No real sign of the alcohol. The finish is dry with a good amount of bitterness. Medium bodied with a smooth feel. This is a very nice readily available strong porter.

Bottle. Aroma is hoppy, roasted and malty, just like the flavor. Flavor has a strong taste of Mämmi in it. Very enjoyable beer!

Black in color with a decent tightly packed head. Aroma is of coffee and raosted malts with a light hop aroma sneaking through. Flavor is heavy in roastiness, but mellows out a little as the beer sits. Nice flavors of espresso and dark chocolate in ther as well.

355 ml bottle. 7.8%. Finland. AW09. Almost black colour with brown head. Mämmi aroma. Roasted malt. Flavour is strong, roasted, malty, a bit alcohol in a nice way. Very good and enjoyable porter.

Bottle. Dark almost black body, with a 0.5 cm thick brown head. Aroma is dark chocolate, roasted malt, vanilla and notes of coffee. Flavor is bitter dark chocolate, roasted malt and hops. Really nice beer.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a dark chocolate brown with a medium, lingering dark tan head. Unsurprisingly chocolate and toasted malts dominate the aroma with hints of coffee, wood (oak?) and some sweet, fruity notes. Strong roasted chocolate flavor that finishes with a kick of alcohol. Taste lingers on the palate, but is not too heavy. This is one of flying dog’s flagship offerings for a reason.

Bottle, 8.7% with 85 IBUs. Oily jet pour hanging with filthy tan suds, in a dimpled Bavik mug of all things. Nostril-arresting hop citrus aroma tanging with Ribena blackcurrant, grapefruit and juniper, Digestive biscuit malt sweetness, very high cocoa bitter chocolate with dark stewed fruit hints. Marmite and apple after an hour. Not remotely porter-like as I know it, but so what? Beautiful smelling ale with backdrop liquorice and faint smoke. Mouth taken over by burnt toast carbonised malt and liquorice, still tanging with that intensely savoury hop leanness. Fragrant and stouty, US hops all over it, hints of oak, 70%+ cocoa bitternesss, lingering charred nut and cigar afters. Bittersweet, aromatically hoppy porter sodden with liquorice and nuthusky malt balance. Thank God beers like this aren’t more readily available in the UK, because if they were I would be a 28st penniless alcoholic.