Flying Dog Road Dog Scottish Porter

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

355ml bottle (Cracked Kettle, Amsterdam)
Deep reddy brown, tiny off-white head. Cocoa powder aroma. Refreshing palate, pleasant carbonation. Fairly burnt taste. Long burnt finish. Decent hops, some raw fruity hop flowers detected. Fairly well balanced. Tasty, but I feel I’ve tasted it many times before. Very easy to drink.
Rerate: similar rating. This time it was a sweeter and more porridgey aroma. Taste was enormously husky, just full of dry grains. Still a very tasty beer - more like a brown ale than a porter. One of Flying Dog’s better brews.

A very light flavored porter. Roasted malt and coffee falvor with a dry finish. Pours dark with very little head. Good enough but not Flying Dog’s best...

Bottle from Copenhagen. Dark ruby, small head. Vinous, fruity, maly. Port-like sweetness, but with an ashy dry finish. Respectable.

Bottled - St Albans BF. A black beer with an off-white head. Some hops in the aroma with an oily fishy greasy feel. The taste is over heavy with heavy roast and an oily greasy texture. I wrote greasy again. Obviously I found it greasy! Oh well.

Bottle--the first "cool" break hits Florida and off to the dark beer corner of the fridge I go! It’s a pretty typical, not high quality type of porter. Dark brown with a thin head that was the typical tan color. The aroma was of roasted malts with a tasted of the same roasted malts. Heck, you know the rest of the routine.

Dark ruby colored beer with shades of brown. Nice long lasting head. Poor nose gives very light notions of black licorice, road tar and bad coffee. Flavor is very weak, with out depth. A really shockingly bad brew

[EBF @ Copenhagen, September 2008] Average bubbly off-white head that mostly diminished. Spare display of lacework. Dark mahogany color. Aroma of mild roasted malt, caramel, hint of coffee, mild floral notes. Medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Moderated sweet and bitter flavor in balance. Mild bitter roasted malty finish.

Bottle at Stockholm beer festival. Nice head over a rather thinn colored porter. Small aroma for a porter, but chocolate clearly present. The chocolate also present in the taste but rather lean body and not enough bitterness.