Flying Dog's 'Snake Dog IPA'

Jungly hops smell at first. Not as powerful as the Loose Cannon, but not too far behind.

It tastes much darker than an IPA normally does. I kind of want to pour it out just to see what color it actually is. As far as the taste goes, it almost seems like a milder version of the Black Cannon. If the Black Cannon beer tasted like a jungle, this one tastes more like a north american deciduous forest, with a few sprigs of pine here and there. It doesn't quite have the earthy flavor that I described in my Black Cannon review, but there is definitely a bit of nature trapped in this bottle. Bitter, but tasty as hell. There's a reason I keep comparing it to the two 'cannon' IPAs from Heavy Seas brewing company. It's almost like a midway point between the two. It has the darker flavor of the Black Cannon, while still remaining an actual pale ale.

The bitterness in this one is cumulative. It builds up as you drink it, as if the aftertaste from each swig never really goes completely away. I don't know if I could drink more than one or two of these.

Like the other Flying Dog bottles, it's got the weird artwork. A strange chimera paces across the bottle. Its secondary head looks dazed and confused, and its tail appears to have some kind of strange rattle or perhaps a caterpillar on the end instead of the traditional chimera snake headed tail. The face in the front stares blankly ahead.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into a few extra lines and circles, and the 'face' in the front is simply a backwards bending gigantic snake neck that leads to the creature's actual head, which loops around its body to peer out from its side. And the strange end to its tail might just by stylized tail fluff.