Flying Dog Old Scratch Amber Lager

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: California Common
Frederick, Maryland USA

Pours a medium clear amber. Aroma is very vaguely sweet, almost absent. Flavor is mild, salt, with some caramel sweetness. Low bitterness. Not bad.

Pours red amber with a medium brownish head. Aroma has banana and some other fruits and the flavor is quite fruity too. Very interesting.

From a 12 oz bottle this beer pours a solid copper color with a thin white head and lacing that lingered on the glass. Very malty scent with some caramel, hops, pine and grasses. The taste on this lager is solid with some definite ale characteristics and mild carbonation.

12oz. Bottle: Very faint aroma of caramel. Poured copper/amber in color with small tan head that lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Lightly sweet flavor. Faint flavor of caramel, malts, and water. Light to medium body. Thin, watery, then dry texture. Average carbonation. Lightly sweet, malty, caramel finish is lightly dry.

pours a beautiful amber color, nice carbonation, nice white head, with a good bit of lacing on the glass. nice malty/ caramel flavor. It is a good beer, It just wasnt as well balanced or as strong of a taste as I would have liked.

Pours a clear, dark amber color with sparkling carbonation and an average, off-white, pillowy head which settles quickly and leaves minimal, sporadic lace. Nose is quite malty with lots of sweet caramel, lightly toasted notes, hints at raisins, and mild tones of woody, bark-like hops. Similar flavors but more hops noted being woody still but also hinting at minty; rich malt tones also filter in with sweet caramel and lightly toasted notes. Palate is medium, lively, and a touch dry and crisp in the finish. Finishes with the rich sweetness disappearing, leaving the hop notes, drying a bit with crisp notes of twigs, faint toasted notes and lingering hints at mint. Bitterness was moderately light to start but ends with a moderate bitterness in the finish. A good beer with great drinkability. Not the typical Steam beer but the balance was good and the rich malt notes matched the earthy-type hops well. Nice effort from FD.

33cl botle. clear darkish amber, small offwhite head. aroma of earth, hops, honey, syrup, nuts. mild and nice. but perhaps too weak too. flavor is honey, malts, syrup, sweetness, slight hops bitterness, feels good, a very gentle beer, would probably go down well with non-beergeeks too. great session beer.

A cali common with a fine fruity aroma and a crisp flavour with notes of caramel and hops. OK, but not that fantastic.