The Fear - Flying Dog Brewery

SpeedwayJim

New York

3.63/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

12oz bottle into a Lost Abbey teku. Shared with schen9303.

Pours a 1 finger light brown cream colored head with average retention. Beer is clear dark brown. Lacing is stringy, spotty and sparse with decent cling. Solid.

Nose is very mellow. Nutty with a hint of pumpkin, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Average.

Opens pumpkin spice, chocolate, roasted malt, and cocoa. Some cinnamon and nutmeg along with loads of brown sugar sweetness and spice at the middle. End is more brown sugar and holiday spice sweetness with a nutty aftertaste. Pretty tasty.

Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth in the mouth and accented going down. Messy finish with a lingering, sticky aftertaste. Nice.

A solid beer overall. I tend to prefer the darker pumpkin beers and this one fits the bill pretty well. Worth trying.

Serving type: bottle

11-25-2012 22:43:05 | More by SpeedwayJim

djre4orm

Virginia

4/5  rDev +7%

06-13-2013 20:36:22 | More by djre4orm

megamass

New Jersey

4.5/5  rDev +20.3%

06-07-2013 05:17:09 | More by megamass

jmslade7

Florida

4.5/5  rDev +20.3%

06-02-2013 04:01:28 | More by jmslade7

puuj

California

4.25/5  rDev +13.6%

05-22-2013 17:55:21 | More by puuj

dan027

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev +7%

05-17-2013 02:43:19 | More by dan027

Partridge

North Carolina

3.5/5  rDev -6.4%

05-14-2013 13:48:44 | More by Partridge

Erbo

New Jersey

4/5  rDev +7%

04-23-2013 00:26:47 | More by Erbo

Hophead420

Maryland

4/5  rDev +7%

04-11-2013 05:20:00 | More by Hophead420

MarvinSnyder

West Virginia

4/5  rDev +7%

04-06-2013 18:36:58 | More by MarvinSnyder

LarryMyers

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev +7%

04-06-2013 11:47:27 | More by LarryMyers

CTJman

Connecticut

3.75/5  rDev +0.3%

03-30-2013 17:24:20 | More by CTJman

Rezknello

Maryland

4.75/5  rDev +27%

03-20-2013 23:57:09 | More by Rezknello

Roberto11232

New York

4.25/5  rDev +13.6%

03-19-2013 03:10:05 | More by Roberto11232

surfrogue1

Maryland

2.75/5  rDev -26.5%

03-14-2013 02:32:26 | More by surfrogue1

Pencible

Virginia

3.28/5  rDev -12.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

A: This poured a nearly opaque garnet with some off white head.
S: It smelled like pumpkin and clove and cinnamon, with some copper and cranberry and pie crust.
T: It tasted like clove and cranberries and copper, with some pumpkin. It had a dirty and bitter aftertaste.
M: It was slightly thick with moderate carbonation. Decent body.
D: This was not one of the better pumpkin ales. The scent and body were ok, but the taste wasn't ok. The finish was rough too, so it was not easy to drink. Not recommended.

Serving type: bottle

02-24-2013 21:36:08 | More by Pencible

TheBrewo

Michigan

3.16/5  rDev -15.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

This beer was served from the tap at Rattle N’ Hum in New York, NY. It arrived in a generic goblet showing a deepened, rusty amber coloring. It held a one finger head of cakey tan foam, showing nice retention, and leaving splotchy lacing down the walls of the glass. There was a chill haze, with no sediment noted. Carbonation appeared robust. The aroma gave big metallic malts, roasty caramels, baker’s yeast, and strong phenolic spice of clove and black pepper. Booze came with warmth, as did a light nutty moss and herbal hop bitterness. Our first impression was that the spice and chemically backbone really drowned out a lot of the other flavoring. As we sipped, aromatic metallics, toasted pale malts, brown sugar caramel roast, and saltiness started things off. These were all decimated through the center of the sip by chemical and clove of phenol, black pepper spice, and fusel booziness. These persisted through the finish, where they were added to by a bittering herbal hop quality, raw licorice, nutmeg, and powdered pumpkin spice. The aftertaste breathed of that phenolic fire, booze, nutmeg, clove, pumpkin spice, and herbal cone hops. The body was medium, and the carbonation was medium. There was nice and soft slurp, smack, cream, and froth to the sip, with thick coating left all around the mouth. There was a slight pucker, with little dryness or astringent to be had. The abv was fine, and the beer drank okay.

Overall, what we liked best about this beer was the robustness of flavoring. While that central bite was certainly overpowering at times, at no point was the drinker bored. At first, things did feel one-dimensional, but with time and warmth the ending of the swallow flourished with a mix of bitters and spices. This made for an ultimately interesting drink. This beer does not land well within the stylistic guidelines, as much of anything pumpkin is lost, but it is definitely one of the more forward beers for Flying Dog.

Serving type: on-tap

02-20-2013 22:20:54 | More by TheBrewo

DrFunkenstein

Pennsylvania

4.25/5  rDev +13.6%

02-14-2013 00:53:58 | More by DrFunkenstein

Lambocalrisien

New York

4/5  rDev +7%

02-11-2013 02:12:06 | More by Lambocalrisien

AngusOg

Maryland

3.75/5  rDev +0.3%

02-10-2013 19:09:15 | More by AngusOg

BugTownPub

Pennsylvania

4.5/5  rDev +20.3%

02-06-2013 04:20:02 | More by BugTownPub

abcramer

Pennsylvania

3.5/5  rDev -6.4%

02-06-2013 00:13:23 | More by abcramer

CreightonSM

New Jersey

4/5  rDev +7%

02-03-2013 16:13:58 | More by CreightonSM

dc4three

New Jersey

3.25/5  rDev -13.1%

01-19-2013 02:15:00 | More by dc4three

Jspriest

Maryland

4/5  rDev +7%

01-18-2013 03:14:41 | More by Jspriest