Berkshire Coffeehouse Porter

Brewed by Berkshire Brewing Co.
Style: Porter
South Deerfield, Massachusetts USA

Pours a deep brown with a cappuccino foam head with good staying power. The aroma is a bit of coffee, and a touch of cocoa. The flavor is mellow maltiness, but not too thin. A pretty good porter overall.

Pours very dark brown with thin semi-frothy brown head. Distinct coffee aroma and not much else. Good feel, some carbonation but very smooth. Slightly bitter and even more slightly sweet, obviously coffee and a bit of chocolate flavor. Very authentic coffee flavor, not too sweet or syrupy. Not much alcohol or other porter/berr flavors but very good.

Gravity, Peterborough Beer Festival 2006. Black with no head. A ot of coffee, with a hint of berries in the aroma. Some chocolate in the taste. Nice mouthfeel.

Cask @ Peterborough BF, 06. Malty coffee, roasted aroma. Appearance is dark brown, thin tan head. Malts, coffee, chocolate. Palate is coating and slightly bitter and sweet.

Bottle... Clear, very dark, deep mahogany ale with a small, creamy, mushroom-colored head. The aroma is rich chocolate, caramel and coffee. Burnt cocoa and coffee in the flavor. Leans on the bitter side of balance. Medium-bodied and watery with medium-carbonation. Lengthy, harsh, bitter finish. The aroma makes all sorts of rich, smooth promises the flavor and palate can’t keep. Thanks to growler for the sample.

Pretty much a thin, watery porter with coffee on top. Flavor is mostly coffee, with some roasty malt and toffee flavors in he background. Not much to say about it. Decent beer, but that’s all.

Poured a dark brown with yeast floating throughout that leaves a thin tan head that disappears quickly. The smell is chocolate, bittersweet cocoa, espresso, and some vanilla bean. The taste is surprisingly like a milk stout, it mirrors the nose with a vanilla wafer crisp taste complimented by a bitter espresso hop bite upfront that is fantasticly smooth. This is another top notch brew from the BBC.

Draught pint at Redbones on 5/30/06. Deep brown, milk-chocolate appearance, though not completely opaque. Dark beige head fades fairly rapidly to ring, with little to no lacing. Hazelnut and husky coffee beans are prominent in the nose, with a strong roasted barley lying behind it. But its staying power is rather weak, as light milk notes and lean caramel move in to the mix. Some light papery, dry yeast notes, quite nutty on the finish, with soft vanilla tints. The flavor is watery at first, with light chocolate malts hints up front and soft caramel quickly transitioning in to the coffee bean flavor, which is not subtle, by any means, but quite flavorful and not overdone either. Dry, bitter black malt notes ride on the tail-end, and then a heavy wateriness begins to build, as soft milky/chocolate sweetness (though quite lean) sits on the end, with plenty of fresh yeasty nuttiness and more of the light vanilla notes. Carbonation was rather loose, and it did seem just a bit too watery, even for a session porter, but the flavors, as usual for this brewer, are all well-done. Alcohol is not apparent in aroma or flavor.