Barley Johns Old Eight Porter

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

A really big beer! Not a wimpy porter. Hershy Dark color, heavy chocolate & espresso. A head you need an axe to cut through!. One of the greats! Available by the glass or growler.

Pint on tap. Dark brown pour with a foamy tan head. Heavy chocolate aroma with some coffee notes. Flavor is slightly sweet chocolate with roasted coffee coming through. Sweet, slightly smokey finish, amazingly good beer.

Draft @ BP. A very nice, drinkable, strong porter. Very robust and chocolatey. Smooth finish. Coffee notes. Cool malty presence. Distint malt that I haven’t noticed in other porters/stouts.

Thanks to Ty5592 for a hand bottle of this. Pours onyx with 1-finger brown head. Aroma of huge roasty dark malt, rich chocoff, molasses, almond, some prune. Tastes roasty and richly malty, with a big chocolate syrup element, plus coffee, molasses, ovaltine, and some hops. Pretty dense palate with a lot of complexity.

Strong porter. Black pour with nice dark tan head--almost oily looking and tasting. Strong Chocolate and coffee aroma. A first-rate porter.

Holy hops, Batman! Slightly carbonated, dark dark brown, sweet malts. It hopped the heck out of my tongue, but I would definitely try it again. Tasty and chewy, well done.

Porters are becoming my fav style after having ones like this. Now having had the Left Hand Porter, Sumiits Porter and this one, they are all top notch. Chocaltey coffee taste makes me want more!

On tap at the brewpub in New Brighton, Mn. Pours jet black black with a thick khaki colored head that leaves excellent lacing. Heavy aroma of fresh black earth, roasted coffee and chocolate. Flavor is chock full of chocolate, bitter coffee, fresh topsoil and a back end of licorice and roasted marshmallows. Thick, rich creamy mouthfeel, Best porter I have had in a long time.