Alaskan Smoked Porter

A solid and extremely smoky porter that could use some aging. The beer pours a nice black-brown with a healthy head, a pleasant surprise as I wasn’t expecting much. It smells like a smokehouse that makes summer sausage and smoked salmon. This flavor and smell would probably smooth with age, but I know very little about cellaring. The taste is mostly smoke with some sweet chocolate or coffee, struggling to make it through the thick haze of smoke. I imagine cellaring for a long period would allow the other flavors to brighten up and smooth out the smoke. The feel is good, bubbly and mouth-coating.

Bottle from outwest somewhere in Colorado. Pours a almost pitch black beer with a thin light tan head. Aroma is soft smoky and malty. Flavor is smoky with a light hop bite and a dry bitter finish. nothing special here. 2008 bottle

acrid smoke character that dissapates into a muscatel flavor with touch of smoke. nice fresh malt flavor to this 2007 bottle the brew was like an english porter and light in body, for a porter that is. it was like an aged wine i suppose with just a bit of sugar.

Pours a coffee brown with a tan head. Smells of hickory wood chips, chocolate, coffee, apples, toffee and hops. Wow, nice carbonation taste is very smoky, almost like applewood smoked bacon, definite roasted malts as it warms, hops and warming alcohol in the finish, stellar beer. I’d enjoy this on multiple occasions.

1999 draft at the Rare Beer Tasting at Wynkoop. Dark brown and filtered. Tasty brown ale with a lighter but recognizable smoke flavor. Lighter body and very easy to drink.

Bomber. 2009 vintage. Pours deep black with the thinnest of reddish-tan heads. Aroma is very faint and hard to distinguish. Some pepper, leather, and wood, perhaps? Taste, however, is quite interesting. Black pepper, tobacco, leather, all nicely blended and with a touch of licorice. Mouthfeel is not heavy in the least, and the palate, though short-lived, is pleasant and does last and even produces a final hint of bitter chocolate as it lingers on the tongue. Well done!

2008 Vintage enjoyed @ our cabin (seemed fitting in front of the woodburning stove with last year’s elk chili). Nose is sublime, smoky hardwood, hints of bitter chocolate. Taste is the smoky roasted malt and a really nice piney, pink peppercorn bitterness with just a fantastic mouthfeel. This bomber lasted about 2 minutes between a few of us. I was expecting it to be much more heavy and syrupy, but could have easily gone through another one. Outstanding.

On tap at Collins Pub. Pours a deep brown black with a thin tan head. Aromas of candy sugar and funk, in addition to the smoke, of course. Smoke is the dominant taste, with some sugar and a bitter coffee finish.