DuClaw Naked Fish

Brewed by DuClaw Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Abingdon, Maryland USA

On tap at Bowie location. This is definitely a dessert beer. Poured out inky black, with red highlights. Sticky mocha colored head. Aromas are of chocolate, coffee beans, and raspberries. Flavors are of roasted malts, espresso beans, raspberries, and earthy hops in the background. Very slick mouthfeel, but thin body. Raspberries overpower most everything else. Decent enough beer, but too sweet for my liking.

Enjoyed a pint draught sample of this beer. Pours to a deep ebony color, with a thick white head, and a soft to moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is very inviting, with good aromas of dark chocolate, coffee, and raspberry. The palate is rich and soft on the tongue with lots of good dark chocolate, coffee, light roast, and raspberry flavor. This beer finishes with more coffee, dark chocolate, and roast up front, then ends with some sweet raspberry flavor that linger. A very interesting and delicious brewed with chocolate raspberry coffee, which really gives this beer great aromas and flavors of all three. This beer tastes like a raspberry chocolate you would find in a Whitman’s sampler box. A fantastic desert beer, or a beer to enjoy as a desert. Another well done beer from Duclaw.

Nice-sized draught sample at the Bel Air location. Near-opaque, almost black and impenetrable, with a lasting wisp of head and decent lacing.....raspberry/chocolate cookie aroma, very fresh, intense with dark cocoa liqueur and a trace of vanilla....the body is excellently balanced between firm dryish black malts, heavy roast, and sweet-tart raspberry wafer cookies, you would expect decadence here and you don’t get it, but that makes it a nice session beer really, not a sipper....quite unusual, really, in being easy-to-drink yet intensely fruity/chocolaty....towards the finish, woody/twiggy hops show up...carbonation is a little high and the mouthfeel, pleasantly potent, could be even fuller, but I have few real criticisms, this is a pleasure.

Funny...that last rating by blank really summed it up. A bit on the thin side but still a nice porter. Every angle of this beer is straight up dark chocolate, coffee, and rasberries. A little on the burnt side butvery enjoyable. Rasberries are just right, not too over the top.

This is a rasberry coffee beer. Looks like a rasberry coffee beer, smells like one and tastes a who lot like rasberry coffee. Could use a little more actual beer flavors, but still mighty good

Light black color with a thin white head. Nice robust chocolate and coffe flavors, but the raspberry aftertaste, while slight, was just enough to bring my rating down.

Tap at Arundel Mills. A nice dark color with a sweet malty aroma. Taste is very sweet of chocolate and raspberry. The finish is dry with a nice fruity chocolatey aftertaste.

Bottle: Nearly black, dark brown hues, lovely lacing.   Subtle coffee nose, definite raspberry.   Smooth roasted malt flavor, coffeeish (sweetened with cream), with very soft raspberry.   Not as flavorful as the aroma would suggest.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Not as thick as I would have hoped.   Soft finish, very subtle.   Enjoyable, just not very big.