Flying Dog K-9 Cruiser

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: English Strong Ale
Frederick, Maryland USA

pours an amber colour with a thick tan head. Aroma is caramel, dark fruit, woody cherry tones. Flavour was a bit boozy, brandied cherry like, some anise tones as well hidden within a dark malt flavour.

Wasn’t expecting much from this but it was amazing. Great sweet, dark, hoppy taste. My favorite winter beer to date.

Pours amber with a thin off white head. Aroma is malty with light and caramel malts showing. Taste is big and malty, and slightly roasty and bitter in the finish. Pretty good.

Bottle. Pours an amber body brew with a quickly diminishing head. Lots of caramel malt body with light etoh. Some light fruity esters and some light bitterness. decent.

12 oz bottle. Pours a rich amber/brown color with a big frothy off white head with great retention and very nice lacing. Aroma is very nutty and filled with malt. I almost get a sock smell but it is very, very faint. Flavor is a bit odd. Not bad, just odd. It has good balance with nice malt flavor and then some almost dark fruit flavors. It’s basically a mix between a Southern English Brown and a Belgian Dark Strong Ale. Very different. Not bad...it just takes a bit for me to come around.

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a clear, brown body, topped by a thick tan head of foam, which was long-lasting. Some chocolate maltiness to the aroma, but also a hint of metal. Full bodied, with a moderate carbonation and a balanced bitter-sweetness. Chocolate is the main flavor note here, with a touch of warming alcohol thrown in. The aftertaste is of burnt nuts and metal. I thought this beer looked great, and had a great initial flavor. I think that this would be a fine choice for a winter ale. Not bad!

bottle, nutty amber color, head is strong with a malty nose, flavor is sweet malts and some dried fruits, light bodied with caramel finish

Flying Dog steps up to winter’s challenge with a flavorful, robust brew, though not with your typical serving of chocolatey malts. Instead, the brewers opted for a slight lean towards a lighter drink. A deep ruby red beer, the K-9 is practically overwhelmed with carbonation like a lively champagne, leading upwards to a thick, light tan head, marked with soft dimples but otherwise flat as a nail’s head. The aroma is wet and malty, gloppy in a way, with a touch of nutty quality to it, and a light milk chocolate adding a light sweetness that doesn’t turn the beer "rich." The flavor is, however, rich with an old and familiar flat malty taste adorned with decorative chestnut tones, a little plum and the always healthy presence of persistent tongue scarping alcohol. I find this better than most micro-brewery winter ales, but the nice touches, such as the chestnut and plum flavors, fade quickly leaving the same old bubbly malty flavors that I can find in any bottle of winter ale.