Anchor Porter

Brewed by Anchor Brewing Company
Style: Porter
San Francisco, California USA

Solid all around porter. Pour is black with a thick, creamy off white tanish head. Roasted malts, caramel, dried fruits, and some toast give the aroma and flavors. Very easy to drink.

Pours a dark brown with a tan head. Roasted malts, molasses, some dried fruit. Brown sugar.

12 oz bottle. Solid Porter! Poured a dark ass brown with light brown head. Scent of roasted malts, molasses, chocolate, carmel and some fruit. Taste is soft with a heavy roasty taste and chocaolate/carmel malt finish. Overall a nice brew. Nothing over the top with this one.

Bottle. Pours dark brown almost balck, with some amber in there as well. Head is creamy tan, thick and long lasting. Smells roasty, sweet, and carmely. Tastes deep and roasted, sweet with some fruitiness. Chocolate, raisin, carmel, coffee, vanilla, and plum are present, but not overly done. Some tastes of pine hops are barely present, but come out more as the beer gets warmer. Strong alcohol flavor is also present. Very good.

Pours almost black with a nice foamy tan head. The retention and lacing is excellent. The smell is of roasted malt, brown sugar, and hops. The taste is initially of roasted malt with the subtle presence of hops. After washing over the tongue a few times, the brown sugar comes through (especially as it warms) and all the tastes blend into a nice bittersweet finish. The mouthfeel is on the light side for what I would expect form a porter, but this is not necessarily a negative. Carbonation is balanced and lends to the brew’s crispness. This is a very easy drinking porter. I would take delight in having several of these in a sitting (though I don’t normally like to do that). The bittersweetness of this brew makes up for any loss in complexity. This is a great straight-up porter and I think it will become a regular for me. Reviewed on: 04-20-2007

12 oz. bottle. Pours black with fleeting amber hues and a rocking, lacing khaki head. Nose is dark fruits, raisin and cherry with chocolate and caramel, maybe a touch of roasted malts. Chocolaty and fruity, cherry, raisin and date, with mild roasty character. Great mouth feel. A touch fruitier than I expected, but not a detractor. Tasty brew.

From a bottle poured dark brown/black with a small head. Nice toasted malty flavor with a quick finish.

12 oz bottle. Pours a tan head, tiny bubbles, fair duration, no lacing, over a dark clear body...nose of bread, yeast, coffee, molasses, very minimal hop....tastes of roasted malts, coffee, mild bitterness in the finish....rich mouthfeel, no sharpness, perhaps a little light. 11/07/2008