Day 14. Flying Dog Road Dog Porter

Great, another black beer. And another Flying Dog beer. I'm sort of getting annoyed at myself for allowing myself to buy multi packs/beer sampler packs because I feel like I'm reviewing and drinking too much of the same kind of beer, even though they are different types, they're from the same brewery. Two was cool, more is just getting kind of annoying. But truthfully, I had 35 some beers and I put one of each out and blindly plucked and placed, so I can't say I chose to put these all here. Now to the beer. Road Dog Porter from Flying Dog Brewery. The label even says, "Good beer, no shit." They'd better keep to their word, or I want a refund. You can't say stuff like that on the label and it sucks. That'd be bullcrap!

Mmmm wow, this is like chocolate beer. I feel like I'm drinking desert and I haven't even had my dinner yet! (It's cooking as I type, however.) It's actually pretty good, but again, not for those people who want to drink it all day (maybe if you're Irish). It has a good taste, good flavor. Very thick tasting beer, and very rich. The bottle has pretty much the strangest drawing on it ever. Some kind of jailhouse clown? I don't know, but they wrote about it on the label,

"Road Dog was the first label Ralph Steadman designed which later inspired Hunter S. Thompson's 'Road Dog' essay. (Ok, anybody ever heard of it? Cause I haven't) We then spent four years fighting for the right to display their now famous quote 'Good Beer No Shit.' To make a long story short, we won. Let us hoist a pint to free speech, NO CENSORSHIP, the genius of Ralph Steadman nd the Gonzo spirit of Hunter S. Thompson."

Ok, I have some problems with this. They spent 4 years just trying to get their label to be able to say "Good Beer No Shit" ? Well I really hope they spent time developing a good recipe too, or something else. Because four years on a label seems like a waste of time. You're making beer here, not getting rated on your language or forwardness. Whatever you call it. ALSO, this is NOT, and I repeat, NOT a pint of beer! This is 12 ounces of beer (Porter). A pint is around 16. Disappointing. Especially because all beers should be at least a pint. .5L would be best. Well anyways, this beer has a 6.0% abv, not bad. Not kicking me on my ass, not putting me to sleep. BTW, just checked their website, and it said it was 5 years of working on getting the label to say "Good Beer, No Shit". Fuckin liars! Well I'm not here to judge on the label, just partially. The taste is good, it's a fun beer, but I want to dock it points for it's label. could have been an 8 or even more, but I'm just going to give it a 7 because I hate liars. Interesting though that they claim a swarm of bats hovers over the brewhouse during the process. I wonder if thats a lie too...Next time I have this, it will be with molten lava chocolate cake or chocolate something. I bet that'd be sweet.