Tonight's beer: Flying Dog Gonzo
Starts with a lot of roasty-smoky-ashy bitterness: coffee and dark chocolate, some burnt fruit and grass. toast with a hint of caramel in the background, hints of dark fruits. Maybe a touch of spice in the distance. wraps up sharply dry.
Thicker than medium-bodied, pretty well carbonated. A trace of bready chewiness evolves to a sheet of syrupy stickiness. Eventually winds up potently drying. At 9.2% ABV it's quite a potent beer, but that's gracefully carried.
A tasty big dark beer—the differences between stouts and porters are vague and subtle, more so with imperial styles. Intense as hell and astonishingly complex, pretty close to balanced. Nicely drinkable in a big beer way. I persist in liking Flying Dog's beers, and in being happy that they've adopted Maryland as their home as thoroughly as they have.
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| Flying Dog Gonzo |
Starts with a lot of roasty-smoky-ashy bitterness: coffee and dark chocolate, some burnt fruit and grass. toast with a hint of caramel in the background, hints of dark fruits. Maybe a touch of spice in the distance. wraps up sharply dry.
Thicker than medium-bodied, pretty well carbonated. A trace of bready chewiness evolves to a sheet of syrupy stickiness. Eventually winds up potently drying. At 9.2% ABV it's quite a potent beer, but that's gracefully carried.
A tasty big dark beer—the differences between stouts and porters are vague and subtle, more so with imperial styles. Intense as hell and astonishingly complex, pretty close to balanced. Nicely drinkable in a big beer way. I persist in liking Flying Dog's beers, and in being happy that they've adopted Maryland as their home as thoroughly as they have.
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