Flying Dog Road Dog Scottish Porter

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

Pours black with a faint head; aroma of roasted malt, hints of liquorice; mouthfeel is thin and watery; flavor mainly of roasted malt; watery, quite dry; not unpleasant, but not much of an anything special either. Mild in every aspect.

I have had and enjoyed this many times, and finally I get to review it! This porter pours a clear, dark coppery mahogany, more like a brown ale than a porter, with a thick and fluffy off-white head. Aroma is smoky and yeasty with a hint of caramel. Flavor is malty and yeasty with a smoky undertone and touches of caramel and spice. Is this a porter? It is a good beer, nonetheless - no [bleep] as the bottle says. Texture is smooth and pleasing, fairly fizzy, leaving a slightly bitter aftertaste.

(Bottle) Poured dark brown and clear with medium sized and white head. Aroma contained roastedness and coffee with milk. Palate was medium bodied and bit dry with medium carbonation. Flavours were roastedness, coffee with milk, tiny amount of liquorice, bitterness and hint of chocolate. Aftertaste was roasty and bitter.

Bottled 355ml. The malt profile is very true to the style of a scotch ale. Hints of raisins an fennel troughout- reminiscent of a weaker version of Gordon X-mas ale. Subdued bitterness. Medium bodied. Not my favorite style- nicely brewed though. Not a porter in my opinion.

Bottle. Dark mahogany pour. Slight roasted malt aroma. Taste of mild chocolate with a little hop. Decent, but not special.

Bottle: Deep chestnut-amber coloured, clear with a small foamy layer; moderate dryish roast-malty and caramelly nose with present vinous/fruity touch; light to medium bodied, solid bitter-sweet flavour; rather short caramelly-roasty finish with a quite little bitterness in the aftertaste. O.K., but a bit disappointing.......

Bottle. Not really sure what’s going on here, but I’m not sure it should be called a porter. I’d probably like it better if I weren’t expecting something different. Pours dark amber-brown, but definitely transparent. Not much of a head. Nose of chocolate malts, a surprising amount of hops, and something else I’m not sure I can figure out... sort of vegetal/woody. Maybe peat-like, or maybe also some anise, which seems totally out of place in this beer.... dunno. Sort of ashy, too. Not terrible by any means but below average.

Most average porter I hjave ever tasted, I had it only a minute ago and hardly remeber it. Dark and sweet- flavor of sugar.