Flying Dog Road Dog Scottish Porter

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Porter
Frederick, Maryland USA

Dark opaque ruby, tiny but firm beige head. Roasted malty aroma, little cocoa, vanilla and hops. Roasted, mildly chocolatey flavor, some hops and dried fruits, liquorice in the finish. Subtle flavors, and maybe a tad metallic. Almost medium bodied, slightly coarse carbonation. Alright, easy and light porter.

Bottle.355ml. A solid porter, with a nice head, coffee, roasty, floral, vanilla, brown, clear, frothy, light sweetness, lightly bitter.

Pours brown with a thin tan head. Smells of sweet malt, some spice. Tastes earthy and roasty with some spicy hints.

Bottle @ OTTOfest in Oulu, Finland. Ruby brown beer with weak, blond beige head. Aroma is sweetish malty with dates, some rostedness and typical hop character for an american ale. Flavor has bready malts, some sour coffee beans and the medium bitter finish is slightly burned. Palate is a bit overly carbonated and medium bodied. Boring porter.

(Bottle from McKean and Charles) Labelled as ’’Road Dog Porter’’, they must have dropped the ’’Scottish’’...Pours dark brown with rubyish and brownish highlights. Two fingers of rather lumpy tan head. Rather mild aroma of chocolate. Mouthfeel kind of fizzy, a bit thin although I understand that’s OK for the style (but still). Nice light rings of lacing. Flavor is sort of milk and dark chocolate-y but on the weakish side. Meek tasting. Nothing to write home about. Perhaps there’s the faintest hint of peat and hence the whole ’’Scottish porter’’ thing.

12oz btl. Pours a really dark brown with a nice tan head. Not too strong of nose but the usual sweet, dark malty smells arise. Mouthfeel is medium with light carbonation. Taste is of mild toasty amlt, some sweetness, with a little alcohol on the end. The finish is short and sweet. Not bad. Hoping it was better but its hard to give a dark beer a bad rating.

meh, dull compared to other porters sort of bitter. It was ok I guess. Some chocolate and dark fruit. Would prolly get again if there wasnt much to choose from.

12 oz. bottle. Pours beautiful clear dark brown with a very light, extremely thin off-white head that all but disappears. Aroma is sweet with mild toasty malt. Flavor is sweet, toasty, and coffee. Decent balance of sweetness and bitterness. Light to medium body. Short sweet finish.