Flying Dog Wild Dog Weizenbock

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Had this back in June of 2007, before I joined Beer Pal. 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. Excellent! I am glad that I managed to catch this special release.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Still not sure what to think of this brewery. The Gonzo Porter I had was absolutely horrendous, so I tried this with a bit of trepidation. It was...okay. I didn't hate it, nor did I love it. It was just...okay. Aroma was a funky yeast that didn't do much for me, but once I got past that it was on to more weirdness like scorched fruit (ugh). Appearance was a really nice chesnut color, nice conditioning. Mouthfeel was pretty light, nothing heavy or harsh. Flavor for me was a lot of banannas and cloves. It was really sweet too with a roasty character that didn't seem to mesh real well with the banannas. Overall it wasn't horrible but it didn't really do much to change my opinion of Flying Dog. I will keep trying though to find that one beer they make that I like.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

This beer pours a dark mahogany with a nice-sized head that lasts appropriately. The aroma is a bit thin, but this makes up for it in flavor. A bit of banana, old fruit, gingerbread cookies, and caramel. The only drawback in the flavor is that it’s a little too sweet. Nice full body makes this a satisfying beer that would improve from a little drying out, but otherwise excellent. The Wild Dog series is making me rethink my opinion of Flying Dog.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Snore. Even though FD brews continually fail to live up to expectations, I bought this hoping its "special-ness" would make it different. Wrong! Poured a brownish color with some red hues. The head was very minimal to nil within minutes. The lacing, nil. The aroma was sweet, burnt bananas and citrus with some yeast. The flavor was similar but lots and lots of astingency and undeveloped character. The alcohol as rather sharp, certainly not hiding. Overall, I'd take this over a handful of other styles, but within style, nothing special. Buy an aged bottle Schneider Aventinus instead.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

The aroma is decent with some banana and dark fruits coming through with maybe some citrus (lemon?) overtones and perhaps some very faint nutty characteristics. The appearance is a nice and deep red amber to chestnut in color with many bubbles with maybe some orange hues with a nice head on top that is creamy and luscious and off-white in color and leaves pretty nice lacing on the glass. The mouthfeel is surprisingly light-bodied and has decent complexity with some pretty good fruity balance with a palate that is extremely wet-like and pretty smooth. The flavor is sweet with much fruity overtones coming through with perhaps some very slight yeast with an aftertaste that is fruity and yeasty and full of bananas and perhaps some dark plum and other assorted dark fruits with an aftertaste that is smooth and creamy and very fruity and sweet with a finish that is pleasant and light and wet with no hints of alcohol coming through. Overall, this is not a bad brew but nothing spectacular either and is at least smooth and refreshing with the alcohol hid very well with nice quantities of fruits and yeast; not a bad brew here but I will not purchase again most likely.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Poured a hazy reddish brown color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of nuts, light banana, lemon citrus, nasty yeast, and old coffee grinds. Taste was citrusy, with a fair amount of hoppiness, roasted and caramel malts, and more nuts as well. Rather disappointing, but not surprising considering the brewery.