Beachside Porter

Brewed by Florida Beer Company
Style: Porter
Melbourne, Florida USA

Sadly, the best of the bottles I sampled at the brewery, and found and opened as a favour. A little lace, neutral aroma oddly, watery and above average carbonation. There was some roasting, chocolate malt and coffee.

has got a nice balance of both strength and drinkable pleasure. it has a real dark toasty flavor of burnt coffee. the palate is fizzy and leaves you satisfied.

The aroma is really nice with toasted malt, chocolate, molasses, and coffee. The appearance is dark brown with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma but suffers from an unpleasant bitterness and an unwelcome fruitiness. The palate is a little thin for a porter. Overall, not bad at all.

There is nothing that quite compares to sitting on the beach, bare feet in the sands, toes scrunching their golden crunchy flaky bliss in pure relaxation. Add a good beer to that scenario, salt spray occasionally tingling on my face, and I am as near to nirvana as I can be without going to the great big ocean in the sky. So when I saw the Beachside Porter at one of my little local beer stores, I just had to pick it up based on sheer name value. Of course, a name is but a name, so hopefully the brew inside would live up to the expectations in my head. A porter is a beautiful thing, after all; not as heavy as a stout, but with enough body to stand proudly.
She poured a luminously velvet black with a thin head which fades into a soft film on top. She froths faithfully with a few swirls, producing thick and tightly packed-together bubbles. As I raise her dark depths to my nose, I am drawn into an aroma of creamy milk chocolate followed by hints of bitter nuts and freshly drawn espresso. A lighter body for a dark beer, as she should be, my Beachside Porter is a bit thin but nowhere near lacking in flavor and palate. Immediately I taste the sweet milk chocolate and cream that was present in her nose, with a very pleasing finish of chocolate essence. A tinge of bitterness creeps into her finish, hinting of toasted malts and espresso. Further on into her palate, some caramelized sugars blends with the toasted malts. A faintly dry finish leaves me craving more and so I happily oblige.
I wasn’t expecting much from my Beachside Porter, but thankfully my expectations were shattered as my palate was led on a flavorful journey of porter bliss. I could and can easily recommend this porter for any day at the beach or anywhere else one desires to partake of a darker flavorful brew without the extra weight.

Courtesy of Daknole.Pours dark brown in coloration with a frothy brownish white head. Smells very boozy notes of plum, prunes and fig. Heavy on roasted malts, chalky with a somewhat heavy smoked charecteristics.

12 ounce bottle courtesy of daknole. Thanks! Pours a reddish brown color with a thin head and decent lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel and figs. Bitter roasted malts with caramel, chocolate and subtle hops. Slightly thin bodied and very drinkable.

Draught at GABF 2008. Cloudy dark brown coloured with a small beige head, Roasted aroma of chocolate and caramel. Roasted flavour of caramel, chocolate and hops with notes of berries and fruits. Roasted and berryish finish.

12 oz. bottle in trade from Daknole, thanks! Served in pint glass- poured trademark black, half finger tan head formed but went away rather quickly. Aroma of a roasted malt and churned riverwater (?). Guess why it’s called beachside... hits the mouth with a low-medium body, malt is there but not very strong, a bit of water in the middle, finish has an odd sweet/tangy finish to it. It’s beer, but kind of odd.