Flying Dog Heller Hound Bock

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Heller Bock
Frederick, Maryland USA

Draught at 42nd St Oyster House in Raleigh, NC. Clear orange color with thin white head. Aroma is of soft malty caramel and grape candy. Nice malty cereal grain flavor with a touch of grape candy and sprucy hops. Went well with my shrimp cocktail.

Cereal malt aroma. Orangish-gold beer, clingy off-white head. Foul label. Tastes like a Eastern European lager, when it waxed sweet. Pretty bitter at times, especially as it warmed. Cereal/toasted oat finish.

Draft at the Barking Dog. Medium orange color, very little white head and less lacing. Very tasty, quick-drinking beer. Has a body approaching medium size, but still very much on the chuggable side. Light sugar and soft breafruit notes emerge with a long pull, but it’s fairly neutral as a sipper. Well-made but shockingly pedestrian for FD (says more about FD than about this beer).

From a 12 oz. long neck brown bottle with a best before date on the lower right hand corner, 195A06. Made a average appearance, poured a clear reddish golden with a small foamy white head that quickly settled into a fine lacing, moderate carbonation overall. Had a nose of sweet grainy/barley maltiness, a little sugary as well, and a light spicy hoppiness. A semi-crisp and smooth light bodied mouthfeel, average drinkability. Sweet malted barley taste with a light toasted graininess, a bit sugary, dry yeasty, a fleeting spicy hoppiness, and a banana fruity and dry malty finish. For me, average Maibock/Helles bock at best, drinkable, but I’m glad I purchased this on sale.

Pured gold color, crystal clear and tiny white head. Aroma of grainy wheat or pale like malts and a little skunky yeast. Nice Bock flavor. It goes from yeasty/tangy to yeasty/fruity-sweet to some hop bite then to smooth yet grainy malts. Not bad at all.

12 oz bottle. Deep golden with a fast fading white head. Sweet pale malt aroma, a bit of stone fruite (apricot) as well. Fairly clean, but the mouthfeel is a bit oil and slick. Sweet pale malt, bread and a bit of lingering breadiness. Faint noble hops. OK, but a bit lacking in character. As it warms, some nice toasty notes come forward.

On tap @ Rocky Mountain Brewfest poured a clear reddish gold with a lasting white head. Aromas of carmel, honey and light citrus. Palate was medium bodied. Flavors of honey, light carmel, apple and a hint of citrus with a bitter finish.

Pretty light for a bock beer. Pours copperish with small head. A nice crisp taste. I dont really think it is a true bock. That doesn’t mean that it isnt good. I liked it.