Atwater Vanilla Java Porter

Brewed by Atwater Block Brewery
Style: Porter
Detroit, Michigan USA

In the bottle. Explosive dark beige head that shot about half of the beer on the floor. Sour milk aroma. Very acidic and tart flavor masks everything else except for a small finishing coffee taste. A drain pour, actually. I’m pretty certain that it is not supposed to be this bad. I suspect a bad batch.

Bottle. Dark amber-black with almost nonexistent head. Aroma of candy cherry and vanilla, sense almost no coffee. Taste like artificial cherry and vanilla, slight coffee bite, off-putting. I have no idea what they were going for here, whatever it was they missed it big time.

Bottle 355 ml
Appearance: murky light brown with medium sized mid dark tan on top .
Nose: rough , even bit wild , raspberry , spice , candi , hint of chocolate.
Flavor/Palate : mid bodied. Follow up of what aroma offered. Wild roast with fruity flavours , berry sweets on side , sugary with some of brown malt. Slight hint of processed vanilla. In short bad brew.

12oz bottle from total wine in greenville. pours a dark, cola-brown with a thin, tan head and decent lacing. aroma is a bit odd with slight coffee and chocolate notes that are overshadowed by artificial vanilla and cherry scents. flavor follows the odd aroma with sweet, artificial vanilla, cherry, and raspberry notes completely overshadowing the hints of roast coffee, dark malts, and chocolate on the finish. palate is on the thin side of medium bodied with light carbonation. overall, a pretty disappointing brew.

Pours a deep black with a tan head. A definite expresso taste with a hint of vanilla. Normally I would love this combination, but something about this beer did not work. The taste were a little harse and did not blend together. I was really disappointed in this beer.

Dark brown pour with a voluminous tan head and average lacing. The aroma was roasted malts, chocolate and artificial vanilla. The flavor had some sour notes as well as chocolate and artificial vanilla. Thin body. Disappointing.

Pours almost black. Two fingers of loose coffee colored foam form and then dissipate very quickly. Lacing is minimal. Definite coffee notes are present. Sadly, it smells like a cup of Folgers, not a big dark roasted coffee shop cup. The vanilla is also present, although less so. It smells artificial. Slight hints of roasted malts. The whole thing has a sort of ’metallic’ smell too it. No, sir. I don’t like it. Burnt coffee beans dominate the taste. There is also a ’fake’ sweetness to it, that destroys whatever chance this beer may have had. The vanilla is nowhere to be found. There seems to be a bit of hops sourness here, also. This brew is way out of balance. Very light, waterey body. Not at all what I want from a stout, of any kind. Way too thin. As this is now a drainpour, I’m going to say that the drinkability is non-existent. Unless they change the recipe, I hope to never have this beer again.

From bottle. Aroma is bitter chocolate and oatmeal (?). Appearance is dark brown and light tan head. Coffee is apparent, with some smokey undertones that linger around. Don’t know where they got vanilla from but i didn’t notice any. Overall reaction: Ehh...