Wild Goose Porter

Brewed by Wild Goose LLC (Flying Dog)
Style: Porter
Frederick, Maryland USA

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium sized dark tan head. The aroma is moderately strong with roasty malts and bitter floral hops. The flavor is bitter, roasty and has a moderately strong floral hops. The finish is bitter and roasty. Decent.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours dark with a brown head. Aroma of nuts and chocolate. The flavor is smooth, roast, chocolate, and mildly bitter.Good beer.

Roasted malt aroma, crimson....yes, the label is right, ruby-red body. Cocoa malts, and a dry, crisp finish.

Bottle. Pours a very dark ruby color with a really nice, frothy tan head. The aroma has some chewy toffee notes, bark, and chalk. This is a tad medicinal in the mouth. It reminds me a little of this awful, awful honey type liquor that I purchased in Cancun for 4 dollars, which really didn’t taste like honey at all. It’s something that is almost like licorice, but with that extra strange tinge. I guess there’s some chocolate in the mix somewhere, but this odd acidity is subtracting from the whole mix. The flavors really seem to come apart in the finish. I’m surprised to see that people had a higher opinion of this than some of the other porters I’ve had recently.

12 oz bottle, via slob. Pours a clear reddish brown colored body under a foamy craggy dark brown head one inch in height. Decent retention. Aroma is all chocolate malt with lighter accents of coffee, roast, and a touch of diacetyl. Flavor is a little thin and chalky but some decent cocolate, coffee, and roast notes. Finishes lightly bitter. Mouthfeel is lighter bodied with a slightly chalky texture. Carbonation is moderate and fizzy. A Porter on the lighter side for sure, but it was certainly drinkable.

Poured a dark brown with ruby highlights. Light brown head dissipated rather quickly. Nice roastinedd and bitterness, but ballanced a little to far to the sweet side for me. Rather clean finish.

At the Durham World Beer Festival. Garnet with a small tan head. Earthy, roasty chocolate malt nose. Bitter chocolate is intensified in the flavor, and mixed in well with a light nuttiness. Mildly dry finish. Very good.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Pours dark with a large light brown head. Aroma of nuts and roasted chocolate malts. The flavor is smooth, roast, slight chocolate, nuts, and slight presence of hops in the finish. Good body, decent brew.