Flying Dog Dogtoberfest

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Frederick, Maryland USA

355 ml bottle. clear amber colour. small head. nice sweet malty taste. easy to drink.

Pour is a nice amber with a med sized tan head. The aroma is sweet malts. Flavor is true to the aroma, a subtle hop highlights the finish. A pretty good oktoberfest.

Faint, jelly-candy coldwater aroma. Darkish, orange-bronze. Tangy, metallic bland. Didnt stand up back-to-back with Great Lakes’ Oktoberfest offering. Unpleasant, tongue-turning astringency and bittering. Medium light body. Light toast, tangy finish. Choco-tootsie pop qualities as it warmed.

Poured a clear amber color with a thin, quickly disappearing whitish head. Aroma of sweet malt and caramel. Flavor is caramel with a slight hop finish.

Pours reddish brown in color. What little head there is that forms on the pour is gone by the time I sit down. Smell is malty and somewhat floral. Taste is more of the caramel malt, but I’m also getting a sweet, brown sugar flavor as well. Not bad. Decent mouthfeel that is very easy drinking and smooth.

Pours a golden amber color with an off-white frothy head that lingers nicely. Aroma is very sweet and sugary caramel. There is, however a nice hop backbone that has a fairly strong presence. Flavor is even stronger caramel sweetness that just screams Octoberfest. The hops are a bit less apparent but still provide a nice character that holds up the bitterness in the finish. Medium body and medium carbonation. Good Octoberfest all around.

pouring this beer into a glass smells like pulling fresh bread out of the oven. slap a slab of butter on this puppy - malts and grains and gritty earth dust up the nose, screaming for flour crested aprons over greenly spankin’ lederhosen. the in-glass lights reflects stronger hues of deep red, crisper than a typically bright marzen orange. a slight rush of malts pushes to the front of the flavor, swirled by even slighter hints of caramel and maple, but all washes away too quickly with an out-of-place hoppy finish. no, sir: don’t wash these malts away. i want to taste everything i smelled at the front of this beer. although a weak offering to the style, i consider this one of flying dog’s better beers.

Pours a clear coppery amber with a medium sized white head. Aroma of malty tones with hints of grains. Taste of light malty grains with hints of toffee.