Anchor Argonaut Collection: Flying Cloud San Francisco Stout
America’s first craft brewery is proud to introduce a limited edition of uniquely Anchor brews, the Anchor Argonaut Collection. This year, there will be three beers released throughout the year; each in their own individually designed 4-packs, as well as on draught.
The first of the collection is Flying Cloud San Francisco Stout. The stouts savored in Gold Rush San Francisco were no ordinary ales. They were export stouts—dark, intense, high-gravity brews. Ours is a Dublin-style brew made with English Maris Otter pale malt, two black malts, and flaked barley. Nugget and Golding hops provide a spicy, floral complement to the deep, dark-chocolaty maltiness and dry finish.
The first of the collection is Flying Cloud San Francisco Stout. The stouts savored in Gold Rush San Francisco were no ordinary ales. They were export stouts—dark, intense, high-gravity brews. Ours is a Dublin-style brew made with English Maris Otter pale malt, two black malts, and flaked barley. Nugget and Golding hops provide a spicy, floral complement to the deep, dark-chocolaty maltiness and dry finish.
3.6
182 reviews
San Francisco, United States
Community reviews
Bottle pour..easily the most enjoyable anchor beer I can remember having..full of flavor and depth..good beer..
Black body with a fine thick and creamy beige head. Nice lacing down the sides of the glass. A bit sweet aroma. Hmm…. Ok intensity. Medium to full body and an average to soft carbonation. A bit sweet and a moderate bitterness. Oily texture. Toffee, cold coffee and a bit to much licorice in the flavor. A bit unbalanced. Not my cup of stout.
[Bottle from a trade with gunnar]
From a bottle. Very nice and thick foamy head. Roasty chocolate and vanilla in taste.
Bottle. Close to black in the glass. topped by a beige head of moderate size. Roasted, almost burnt nose with licorice, caramel, some dried fruits and coffee and some bonfire notes. It’s full-bodied, smooth and faintly warming on the palate, with some sweetness and an appropriate bitterness. Roasted malts, some bonfire hints, prunes and caramel. Licorice too. Lasting finish where the licorice have more room to play. A really fine one. 160504
Bottle. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma of malt,licorice, some roasted notes, dried fruits and caramel. Flavor is sweet and malty with some caramel, ash, roasted notes, nuts, dried fruits and alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation.
Bottle 355ml @ Geokkjer
Pours very dark brown with tan head. Aroma has notes roasted malt, caramel, dried fruit, chocolate and licorice. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long roasted, chocolate, licorice and fruity finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
28.04.2016, 12 oz bottle @ home:
Huge brown fizzy-creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly rich and sour-ish roasted, dark malts, dark sugar, weeds, grass, licorice, sour coffee, roasted grain, dark fruits, minerals. Taste is dry mineraly, weeds, roasted grain, sour coffee, minerals, burnt caramel, alcohol, grass, paper, dark sugar, bark. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and harsh mouthfeel. Fair enough.
12oz bottle. Large tan head atop black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, roast, some tar, light earthy. Taste is moderately sweet, roast, some tar, light caramel, earthy. Medium body, some stickiness.
355 ml bottle. Jet black, thick pour, very thin mocca coloured head, some lacing. Aromas of dark fruits, cherry, bitter chocolate, hints of alcohol. Full mouthfeel, it’s sticky, oily, richly carbonated with a dry finish. Flavours of coffee, bitter chocolate, melasses and dark fruits.
33 cl bottle from Vinmonopolet. Pours pitch black with a beige head. Aromas of coffee, malts, chocolate and dark syrup. Taste is bittersweet. Really good stuff.
Bottle. Pours a jet black body with a large, creamy light caramel-hued beige head, looking marvellous. Aroma is licorice, nuts, chocolate, caramel and hints of coffee and dark berries. Taste is dark berries, molasses, licorice, caramel, dark syrup and hints of coffee and dark chocolate. Full, creamy body, medium carbonation. Smooth and easy-drinking classic imperial stout with a nice dark berries-meets-coffee profile.
DWF; Bottle 335 ML, from Vinmonopolet. Pours moderate to large, black with a creamy, lasting and lacing tan head. Nose is heavy, roasted, malt, dark chocolate, coffee, moderate dark dried fruit, ripe dark berries and light ash. Taste is heavy sweet and moderate bitter with lasting roasted bitter chocolate, coffee, warming finish. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft.
Helt svart med brunt skum. Lukter kaffe, nøtter, svakt fruktig og et snev av tang. Bitter kaffe i smaken sammen med mørke bær. Alkoholen merkes godt i avslutninga.
Dark brown body, nearly opaque. Taller tan head that settles leaving decent lace. Scents of roasted malts, some dark fruit and light ash. Sweet start, with roasted malt, dark toffee and bit of molasses. A sweet foreign stout. Fairly bitter and some black malt in the finish and linger. A strong Mackeson XXXX.
Bottle 33cl. Black with a minimal light brown head. Aroma of malt, licorice and chocolate. Medium sweet, light bitter, chocolate end. A bit too cold.
Flaske fra helsekosten på Kvaddå, hjemme: helt svart med fint cappucinofarget skum. Aroma av godt stekt brød, mørkbrent kvalitetskaffe, mørk sjokolade og lakris. Smaken er like god, og balansen mellom mørk sødme (lakris og sjokolade) og syrlig brenthet er veldig god. Allikevel en ganske mild og lett fruktig bitterhet i den lange ettersmaken. En god nightcap.
0.355l bottle. This one pours a deep and dark brown colored body. On top, a really dark creamy, big and good looking chocolate colored head that sticks around and is leaving some hefty curtains down the sides of the glass. It has a sweet and dark nose this. Lots of sweet licorice and sweet leather. Well, it’s not sweet sweet, but still. Roasted also with some milk chocolate, hazel nuts and a little bit of pastilles. Nice stuff, not too hefty or extreme, but nice and balanced. It has a nice mild oily texture in the mouth and it’s soft and only prickling on the carbonation. Sweet chocolate in the taste also. It’s nicely roasted, but the heftiest roastiness doesn’t come until the aftertaste. Almost like coffee with roasted whipped cream in a strange but nice way. Not the most memorable one, but a nice, well balanced mild stout from the solid and steady Anchor. 11.03.2016
Bortimot Svart med beige skum. Lukt av, lakris og kaffe. Smaker salt lakris kaffe. Noe tørr og krydret i avslutningen. Middels lang.
355 ml bottle. Black body with a moderate sized, dense, stable brown head. Nice aroma of roasted dark malt, coffee, rye bread and dark fruit. Flavor is dark, dry, roasted malt, quite much coffee, some caramel, rye bread, biscuit, dark fruit, some dark chocolate and balanced bitterness. Fine balanced body and long lasting aftertaste with a rather dry, roasted malt and coffee. Nice one.
Bottle from Dr. Capone, Beer MD. Pours hazy dark brown/black with frothy and well-retained khaki head. Nose is big choc malt, hops. Tastes rich in heft, with ample hops, big choc malt, some hoppy bitterness at culmination, and a unique creamy finish that unloads all over your eager tongue. Another solid beer from Anchor.
On bottle from Vinmonopolet Norway, on order. Black color, good foam. Medium/high aroma intensity; roasted, licorice, malt, choclate, cocoa and some coffee. Medium/full body & complexity. Good bitterness and balance. Very enjoyable
Quite black with virtually no head. Tastes of roasted coffee, dark tea, herbs and some unknown taste. Heavy-medium body, fine carbonation and a lasting aftertaste of the unknown taste. Special tasting stout
tar black brown some fast vanishing tan cream head. Aroma black-strap, caramel, honey. Tastes deep caramelized malt, toffee, drying bittersweet raisins some chocolate. Sorta like a dark doppelbock. some yeast flavor come through. finish is dry and toasty.
355 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet Madla. ABV is 7.4%. Black colour, moderate but lasting tan head. Pleasant aroma of moderately roasted malts, hints of caramel, dark bread, wort and woodwork. Dry and roasty flavour, roast malts and coffee, hints of liquorice and dark bitter chocolate, moderate bittering hops in the finish. Nice beer.
Flaske. Svart,litt oljeaktig viskositet. Lavt karbonert med tynn skumtopp. Smaker lakris,skokolade,mørkbrent malt, aske. Hint av vanilje og noe frukt. Noe humle i ettersmaken. Denne var meget bra
Pours near black with a tan head. Aroma of licorice, roasted malt, raisins and some vanila. Medium body, oily feel, average carbonation. Taste brings more of the licorice along with some really dark chocolate. Salty and bitter finish.
Black with a brown head - Roasted malt aroma - Roasted malt body with some carmal notes as well as hints of hops - The roasted malt goes into the finish - This was good
Big brown head. Opaque black body. Dried fruit, red berries and toffee aroma with spicy notes. Sweetish roasty fruity red berry taste with earthy notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft mouthfeel. Dryish fruity red berry and cocos aftertaste with toffee and roasty earthy notes. Nice, drinkable, full of flavour, yet balanced and harmonic. (0.355l bottle, from wine monopoly, Strømmen.)
Pours a black from a bottle with a melted chocolate ice cream colored head. Aroma of toasted brown bread, some molasses. Flavor is distinctly pruney, although not in a sweet way. Thin and dry. Good beer.
Flaske 355ml fra Vinmonopolet Tromsø Sentrum. Svart. Høyt tett lysebrunt skum som daler veldig sakte. Utmerket aroma av sjokolade og søt frukt. Silkemyk munnfølelse. Smaken lett syrlig. Lakris. Vanilje. Sjokolade. Variert & god. Langvarig litt søt ettersmak