Flying Dog Wild Dog Weizenbock

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Weizen Bock
Frederick, Maryland USA

Excellent! It pours a gorgeous reddish-brown, deep and clear, very inviting. Aroma is strong and malty with overtones of brown sugar or molasses, possible chocolate hint. Taste is superb - malty with some hop bitterness, a whisper of sweetness, molasses tones. Smooth but with quite a bite, it is to be sipped and savored.

Pours dirty brown with just a hint of froth. Aroma is malty and medicinal. Full nectar with mellow residual effers. Flavors are slightly sweet and spicey consisting of ripe, blackened bananas, medicine, rasins, caramel, honey, tobacco resin, slight coffee. The finish is long. Well ballanced. Alcohol is well hidden. I highly recommend this brew.

Poured a dark brown with large foamy head that falls with mild traces on the glass. Very complex flavor, manly bananaish, but other fruity flavors as well. I can’t taste the clove. Much higher price tag than worth it, but great brew none the less.

Dark amber hazy body with a generous frothy tannish head. Aroma of cloves, banana, dark biscuity malt, and fusal alcohol. Flavor follows the nose. A nice biscuity dark malt accompanied by a sweet candy banana, followed by a spicy clove finish. Wonderful fully mouth feel. This style is quickly becoming my favorite.

Pours a beautiful aurburn that reminds me of my girlfriend’s hair in the winter. The aroma of bananas cloves and spice take my mind back to exotic days on the beach. The flavor is like a malty smokie hefe-weizen. It’s so smooth that flies down my throat like an Italain in a luge event. Overall this beer makes my head forget about the boring soul crushing day I’ve had at the rat race.

Aromatic notes of clove, plum and apple waft to my nose as I pour this beer into my glass. The beer is a brilliantly clear, brown-amber color when held up to the light; otherwise it is an opaque, dark purple-brown color. The head is frothy and a pale amber color. The aroma is definitely clove like and also has a tart fruity component to it that reminds me of plums plus notes of figs and prunes. At the end a bit of banana comes through in the nose as well.

The taste is sweet and smooth up front, it finishes with a bit of spiciness and a strong banana cream note. This is a pretty rich beer and a 750ml bottle is definitely a pleasurable endeavor for the night. The finish has a smooth creamy, mouth-coating feel to it, but mixed in is a bit of spritzy carbonation and a spicy, peppery, almost ginger like note. There is also a hint of dark malt in the finish; a bit of burnt raisin, perhaps a hint of chocolate and a slight roast grain astringency.

This beer is quite good, as with the other beer in this series; I am quite impressed so far by the beers in the Wild Dog line-up. Banana cream is definitely a good descriptor for this beer, though there is a definite clove note here as well as other spice notes. As the beer warms up the chocolate note begins to pick up a bit; add a splash of chocolate to that banana cream please. There is a slight tart note here which adds to the drinkability of this beer. If I had to complain, this is indeed quite tasty, I would wish for a bit more malt complexity; this is quite nice as is though.

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750 ML Bottle-Poured a dark red/Mahogany color w/a moderate head. Sweet roasted malt aroma. Sweet flavor of roasted malt & nuts, bark fruit/bananna, caramel/toffee, cane sugar, & bread dough. Full, complex flavor very similar to a fine belgian. Good carbination w/traces of spice. This was quite good, best beer I’ve had from this brewer

750 ml. green champagne bottle. Corked & caged. No freshness date noticed. $17 each at a local watering hole. Too damn expensive for starters. No pop or fizz when opened. Poured out a deep amber color, with a minimal tan colored head. Aromas are of sweet caramel malts, slight alcohols, and lactic wheat tang. A bit of cloves permeates the aromas as well. Flavors are of cloves, some phenolics, roasted malts, earthy bitter hops. Thick mouthfeel, rich & delicious. Overall, a decent effort for the style. But being so high priced takes points off for value.