Flying Dog K-9 Cruiser

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: English Strong Ale
Frederick, Maryland USA

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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Bottle from Utobeer. Pours an unappetising shade of brown and rather murky with no head. Aroma of dried fruit and a whack of resinous hops. Thick, sweet malt with a balancing bitterness. Much better than the appearance suggested it would be.

From notes: Poured ruby red with a small, bone-colored head. Aroma of piney hops, caramel malt and some spices. Medium-bodied with mild depth and a slightly lingering finish. Flavor of caramel malt mixed with mild piney hops, and some spice notes beneath.

Pours a medium copper, hardly any aroma. Flavor is....not really of anything. I like Flying Dog but this is mediocre.

Bottle. Pours copper with poor head retention. Malts, spice and a dry finish. Unbalanced and a too thin.

[ASPETTO] marrone scuro con riflessi ambra-rame, limpida [SCHIUMA] color crema, media presenza, fine , media persistenza [OLFATTO] profuma di malti tostati, un leggero torrefatto e note di frutta matura. C’è anche lo zampino di una buona luppolatura che contribuisce ad una sensazione fruttale con qualche sentore erbceo, e un tocco alcolico molto fugace come colpo di coda [GUSTO] imbocco maltoso, abbastanza dolce. Si insinua un certo fruttato che in un secondo momento fornisce qualche nota quasi agrumata con un tocco astringente. Nel finale ed ancor più nel retrogusto rimane una base amara, vegetale, a cui si affiancano residui tostati ed un leggero aromatico-speziato dato dall’alcol. [TEXTURE] corpo medio, morbida, bassa carbonazione, alcohol ben dosato [COMMENTO FINALE] ritorniamo in casa Flying Dog dopo una esperienza deludente con la wheat ale. In questo caso recuperiamo un buon livello, con una winter ale o strong ale ben costruita, armonica e piacevole. Mi aspettavo lo zampino di luppoli usa ed invece gli amaricanti rimangono al loro posto, dando il proprio contributo ben dosato. ha senso quindi parlare di english strogn ale ? al di la di ciò, termino la bevuta soddisfatto: una birra non ecclatante comunque di buon livello.

Dark, malty aromas of bread, rasins, black liquorice and roasted nuts. Pours a deep burgondy color with thin foam at the top. Smooth flavor of roasty nuts, spices, bread, oats and barley. For a malty beer, it is incredibly smooth and thin in texture. Masked carbonation, covered by a nice plethora of flavors. Overall, this is a well-done brew with a great malty flavor. I’d give this a B- rating.

Draught at Rattl ’N’ Hum, NYC
Creamy off-white head with a clear amber body. Lightly caramel, sweet aroma. Heavily bitter, moderately sweet flavour: unbalanced. Not bad, but not very pleasing. The bitterness lasts very long and is almost annoying.

aroma of caramel,candy apple,yeast, maple and honey..nice..ruby red color,off white seafoam head plenty of lacing..honey,spice,apple,basically much like the aroma in the flavor,hint of hops.vanilla..sort of an angle on a honey brown ale i like it..med-full bodied creamy and slightly tingly..lingering sweet aftertaste that doesnt overdo it..a good substantial warming winter ale,good price too

Has a deep copper color. Smell is mild, some malts. Taste is also mild, malts, lightly hopped, rather weak. Overall a mediocre beer.

Refrigerated bottle poured into a shaker. Pours transparent copper with one finger off-white head that dissapates quickly. Little lacing, medium/light body, a little rough texture, and spicy aroma. Taste is caramel malt, some spice, and a light bitter hop finish.

0.355l bottle from myBrewerytap. Pours a clear just lovely looking deep mahogany/chest nut-brown body with a small quickly sidesticking beige head. Nice sweet aroma with chocolate, cocoa, tons of malt sweetness, red fruits and more subtle hints of cardboard and perhaps even some alcohol. It has a light oily texture - surprisingly thin actually, and a average carbonation level. Not too sweet in the flavor, though it’s quite malty and caramelly. Sweet biscuits with a herbal influence and some nutty hints. Finish and aftertaste is like after you have swallowed cold, burned coffee - just in a good way. Really well camouflaged alcohol. Interesting enough this one. Light drinkable as well, but for me, a bit to light-bodied to be a proper winter beer. More like a pre-spring beer. 22.02.2012