Flying Dog Wild Dog Schwarz

Expensive Corked and Caged 750 bottle with a tricky cork. Pours with a very deep brown body and a large, creamy mocha colored head. Aroma of light smoke, jerky, toasted-caramel grain, light chocolate, metal, some leather and light fruit. Decently decadent smelling. Taste is dry and smokey with some light meat elements, charcoal, dry Mexican roast coffee and a bit of unsweetened chocolate. Dehydrated feeling. Lively bubbles and a creamy mouthfeel. Very, very low residual sugars.

Bottle. Pours black with a tan head that quickly diminshes to surface cover. Aroma is of roast malt, smoke, caramel and licorice. Flavour is the same but also has some sweetness mixed in. Medium bodied with sweetness coming first, with bitterness and smokiness lingering on the finish. A very nice beer, and although the smokiness remains subtle, its very well balanced on the whole.

Black of color with a beige head. An aroma of smoke and sweets. A flavor of smoke, sweets, coffee and salami.

Tap @ Esbjerg Festival, 2009. Pours pitch black with a creamy brown head and lacings. Dark and roasted malts. Grain and coffee. Smooth and full palate. Taste is roast, grain, coffee and smoke. Nice one.

Sample at Esbjerg beerfestival. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, hops, caramel and smoke.

Draught at Jydske Øldage 2009. Frothy off-white fair mostly deminishing head. Black colour. Heavy malty rauch aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Strong smoked notes and no chocolate. Average heavy bitter finish. Oily palate.

On tap at Beer Temple. Almost black colour, beige head. Aroma of smoke, roasted malts and some sweetness. Flavour is roasted malts, smoke, caramel, bitter hoppy finish. Medium bodied. Very nice beer, appeared to me as a schwarz with a firm hop bitterness.

Draught at Danish Regional Beer Festival, Esbjerg 2009. Black colured with a white long-lasting head. Aroma is smoked and malty. Rich roasted malt flavor, lots of smokeyness with a woody character. Good smoked beer.