Flying Fish Porter

Formerly brewed at Flying Fish Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

(deliberately) warmed bottle. Fruity gummi-sugar aroma. dark brown with a little beige head. tastes like tutti frutti candy, chocolate coffee on the finish. alcohol shows through a bit, in an OKish way. Best flying fish I’ve had yet, (but then again I don’t like this brewery’s brews much.)

Dark pour but clear, decent head and lace. Sweet roasty malts. Chocolaty, but grains show through too much in this beer. Pretty thin and not much to it.

12 oz. bottle. courtesy of Zathrus13. Dark ruby with brown-orange tinges. Small light tan head. Sweet malt, brown sugar, and a lactic tinge in the aroma. Caramel, chalky chocolate. Citrus and metallic hop flavors and some bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel is light medium, fairly dry.

(Bottle courtesy ’jsquire’ Indy tasting 12/10/05) Aroma is roasted dark malt, cheap coffee, and chocolate. Pours black with medium head and decent lacing. Flavor is a little fruity, roasted carmel and chocolate malts with that light coffee taste in the background. Palate is creamy, clean, and a bit thin. Not bad.

dark brown pour and a grey light orange head. caramel tea aroma. caramel, lime, and chocolate taste. light honey finish that is hollow. some tart grape in the finish too.

A solid porter: nice roast. A lot of complexity to the flavour: some fruity tones emerge from the roast. Fairly subtle and balanced: the hops blend very well and the amount of roast is just perfect! My main complaint is that it was very flat, and perhaps a tad too sweet.

Bottle. Thanks to someone at the Indy Circle City Samplers rate party. Pours a deep deep amber color that appears black outside of the light. Frothy dark tan head. Aroma is roasty with hints of wood, coffee and malt. Flavor somewhat sweet, with dry roasty malts. Very breadlike. Foams on the palate, very strange, yet creamy. This is a very complex beer.

Pours with a large, fluffy, light brown head that sits atop a a brilliantly clear deep, deep amber colored beer (really almost black) that shows bright amber highlights around the edges. The aroma is a mix of lightly roasted fruit (like raisins and concentrated plums) and soft roast notes made up of lightly roasted coffee and toasted malt. I am really quite surprised how fruity the aroma is, I was expecting something a bit more clean and malt focused, shows you what I know.

Wow, the beer is incredibly well carbonated and almost vaporizes as it hit my tongue. I am certainly going to need to de-gas this puppy to enjoy it. Ok that is done, what is the beer like? The beer is lightly sweet with a forward fruitiness that reminds me of raisins, figs and perhaps a bit of ripe plum. There is a saccharine sweetness that carries through almost to the end of this beer. The malt really becomes noticeable towards the end of a sip, there is a drying roasted malt note, a hint of chocolate, and a definite bready-toasted note that reminds me of crusty bread pulled fresh from the oven.

As the beer warms up the fruitiness really starts to take over, it almost becomes a bit too much. This beer seems a bit thin on the palate as well, probably a byproduct of the over carbonation.