Flying Fish Porter

Formerly brewed at Flying Fish Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours a dark brown with a medium sized lasting tan head, good aroma of roasted malts and chocolate, the taste is coffee-like and chocolate-like. I just wasn’t digging this one.

Solid or say fair or so porter. Black coffe to a ruby red dark coloring. Some tan head that goes away quickly. Roasted malts in the flavor - thats expected. Crisp & dry in the mouth. Emphasis on dry. Medium thin body could use more content. Finish was tart & mostly dry.

(03.26.06) Stout/porter sampling with Scott, Tony and Walt at DiCarlo’s, Mundelein, IL. 12 oz brown bottle as gift from Thaichile. Yeast bottle conditioned. Poured black with long-lasting medium sized tan head. No discernable carbonation. Faint malt aroma. Light-to-medium bodied beer that starts sweet malt flavor and chemical (plastic?) flavor. Finishes with light malt fade and metallic aftertaste. No discernable roasted malt flavor. Overly sweet, thin textured, and watery flavored. Chemical and metallic flavors were appalling. Does not adhere to a porter style-more like a brown ale. Bad bottle? This beer disappoints. Thanks Thaichile for the bottle.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry courtesy of Thaichile. Pours a clear dark ruby-brown with an average size lasting foamy beige head. Aroma of sweet malt, fruit, milk chocolate, nuts and light hops. Flavour of mildly-roasted malt, a bit of chocolate, fruit and light earty hops. Nice medium body, especially for a Porter. This is probably more along the lines of a more traditional style Porter then I’m used to but I must say, I quite liked it.

Bottle (12oz). Shared with blankboy, his bottle via trade with Thaichile. Poured clear ruby-mahogany with a large foamy-creamy lasting tan head - nice looking, but looked more like a nutbrown. Very dry roast malt aroma, quite a lot of grain and straw, with some chocolate and light hops .. mild fruit and cola sweetness on warming. Taste really makes me think of a roastier nutbrown - tart fruit, roast malt, dry hops, with a medium bitter average-length finish, still some cola-sweetness lingering as aftertaste. Dry, very lively mouthfeel - my first thought was this is a very weak-bodied porter, but it really is just about right - in fact it’s probably quite authentic, as blankboy noted, we’re just used to porters that are more in the way of stouts ... this is perhaps a bit like the Nethergate Old Growler, just toned down some.

24-Mar-06 (12 oz bottle: Obtained 21-Mar-06 in trade with Lou18, thanks Lou!) Lord knows what was going through my mind when I rated this the first time. Belgian notes? No. It’s roasty and chocolaty, as expected, moderately sweet and light bitter, but this beer tastes very yeasty, and not in a Belgian yeast kind of way. Again, the yeastiness is probably even more prominent in the nose. Medium bodied, somewhat creamy, solidly carbonated. Medium brown in color, somewhat ruddy. A good inch of tan head forms on the pour, settling to a wide ring. A few spots of lace stick to the glass. Not a bad porter at all, it’s actually rather enjoyable, but the yeastiness needs to be far less prominent.

18-Apr-05 (12 oz bottle: Obtained 04-Mar-05 in trade with slob, thanks Bert!) There are some seriously unexpected Belgian notes in this porter that have totally caught me off guard. Yeah sure, the porter is fairly roasty and appropriately bitter, it’s malty and quite sweet, and that’s fairly common with American porters, but this Belgian character is totally unusual. I wouldn’t call it spicy, per se, but something is saying "Belgian" to me. Sweet, malty, lightly roasty nose. Medium bodied could use a bit more viscosity, but is at least acceptable. Color, when held to light, is a very deep and dark, but slightly translucent mahogany. Light tan head is of modest size after the pour, and dissipates to a thin sheen before I could even rinse out the bottle. A few small streaks of lace are deposited on the glass. Decent, but not in my upper echelon. (7, 3, 7, 3, 14 = 3.4)

12oz bottle from lou18. Darkish bro wn color with a light off white head. head dies downb to a film and outer ring. nose is metallic, dry bittesweet chocolate. Flavors of metal, light chocolate. Palate is light and fluffy, finishes with little bitterness and a dry palate. Nose has more chocolate now, like a chocolate fondu pot. More chocolate in the finish as well. Palate is more complete with a light syrupy feeling.

bottle courtesy of OhioDad in a very recent exchange. great aroma of semi-sweet chocolate and flavors of chocolate, coffee and a hop presence on the tail end. nice porter, thanks Scott.