Barley Johns Old Eight Porter

Brewed by Barley Johns Brew Pub
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
New Brighton, Minnesota USA

From a growler at DLD - Pours very dark brown with a thin tan head. The aroma is of dark roast malt accented with coffee. The flavor has the dark roast malt with coffee and chocolate notes that’s typical of this style. It has a robust body and is quite good, but didn’t seem quite as impressive to me as the ratings show.

12 oz handbottle. Dark brown with a frothy tan head. Nose of coffee beans, grape and mocha. Medium light with a mild carb tang. Taste is coffee and chocolate with hints of prune and blueberry. Woody drying with a tobacco aftertaste. Solid.

Handbottle from stine - thanks! This one pours to a beautiful roasty black with a smaller head. Aroma is thick and roasty - lots of chocolate, some coffee, and some sweet scents. Flavor is big, roasty and sweet - Darker chocolate and coffee abounds with light hop bitterness. Very smooth and tasty. Really good - can’t wit to try the dark knight based on this experience.

Handbottle trade extra from Stine, which was a very generous gesture. Black in color with a small brown head that dissipates into a ring around the side of my unibroue tulip. Aroma: chocolate, some light raisin, roast and caramel malts, and light floral/pine hop notes. Taste is nice and chocolate driven, with roast, raisin. A medium caramel body which is perfect for big porter. Finishes with a touch of alcohol, lingering roast, chocolate, and some hop bitterness. Thanks Eben!

Pretty declicious brew. Dark pour with long lasting dark tan head. Aroma of light burntness. Taste was very light dark fruit, roasted malt, and was real smooth and creamy. Seemed like a pretty simple porter but a job well done. Would buy again.

scent of burntness. long lasting head. taste is very very smooth with a finish of burnt nuts. a very good porter.

Growler shared by theisti at csbosox’s tasting, on 3/7/08. Pours black with an oily surface and a thin mocha ring around the edge of the glass. The nose is a blend of fruit, cocoa and roast malt. Fairly light-bodied and thin with almost no carbonation and a dry roasty finish. Coffee, bright fruit (plum), light chocolate and roasted malt. A solid porter that I’d love to try fresh some day. Thanks for sharing this one with us, Tim.

Growler shared by theisti. Opaque dark brown with a brown and reddish head. Aroma of iced coffee and berries. Cocoa and coffee flavors. Hefty body yet quaffable. Very good stuff.