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Flying Dog Old Scratch Amber Lager 3.02 952

Flying Dog Old Scratch Amber Lager

Percentile
48
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9523.02/5.03.02/5.05.5%40.4Lager glass
Commercial Description:
Ideal for the Lager drinker who prefers amber beers, the "Scratch" is a smooth, malt-accentuated lager. Brewed in the "Steam-Style" tradition, scratch is a so-called hybrid beer that is fermented at medium temperatures to develop some ale and lager characteristics.
Ingredients: Water; Malted barley; Malted wheat; Hops.
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 epf33 (222), Fairfax, Virginia, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/105/53/104/512/20
Feb 23, 2008    Updated: Feb 25, 2008
smooth with a kick of unique hops, flying dog makes some of the best beer i’ve had! always a full body!


 luckygirl (1221), Boulder, Colorado, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/55/103/511/20
Feb 19, 2008  
RRBF ’08. Beer is clear, medium brown. No head.<P>The aroma is timid; malty with light notes of husky toasted grain, biscuit; Hoppy with light notes of apricot, moderate honeysuckle floral; Trace of rose, light note of apple.<P>The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, trace bitter with a short, lightly bitter, lightly acidic, lightly astringent finish. Husky retros.<P>The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is fizzy.<P>Ho hum, but not broken.


 IlanMan (847), Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/59/20
Feb 18, 2008  
An ok beer that could use a little more taste. Had a watered down flavor of caramel, malt, light hop. Had some very light fruity esters. Probably wouldn’t buy again.


 JorisPPattyn (5192), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Feb 17, 2008  
Fully clear amber-copper beer, with medium amberish head. Intense malty nose; Vienna malt, cookie malt, cattle fodder. In the taste liquorice, coloured malts, moccha cookies, blueberries, rather very estery/fruity for a lager. Maybe not a maltbomb, but so much malt-dominated, that one wishes for some drying hops. Rather well-bodied, sticky even. Ok, this is some kind of American Vienna. But Herr Sedlmayer would have wanted SOME hops in his beers, I guess. Exaggerated IMO.


DickDunnigan (26), Boise, Idaho, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/105/55/103/512/20
Feb 12, 2008  
Beautiful crystal copper color, nice lacing. Sweet malty aroma, tangy mouthfeel with lots of carbonation. Flavors of sweet, toasted malts with some caramel. Faint hop bitterness. Not bad.


 unclemike (833), Ft. Riley, Kansas, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/103/516/20
Feb 12, 2008  
Nice color, smell some citrus. bitter at first then pretty pleasent tasting. Great label


 yespr (12407), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/513/20
Feb 12, 2008  
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear orange with a little white head. Light malty aroma, slight fruit note. Woody and caramel malt flavour, dry and almost woody. Bitter hoppy note towards the finish. Dry finish. I miss some sweetness, otherwise a nice brew.


 evilsoc (191), Wales
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 11, 2008  
Bottle from magnum, swindon, UK. Nice looking beer with deep amber and almost white head. This beer is all about the malt with a bready backbome and large burnt caramel pleasentness. not earth shattering but remains for me extremely drinkable. I assumed this wasnt widely available outside the US but my bottle has many languages on it? I assume this one wasnt brewed in Denver and as such has lost some of it’s soul. (this is purely psycological on my part!)



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