Bluegrass Dark Star Porter

Brewed by Bluegrass Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Louisville, Kentucky USA

bottle BB may/2008 by way of StFun... pours a dark woody mahogany shade of brown with a quickly dissipating tan head. the aroma and flavor are chocolate, grassy hops, coffee-like nuttiness and some metallic malty grains. there’s a bit of ashy/astringency on the dry mildly bitter/woody finish. it’s a little light in the body but it makes that up with nice acidity and creamy carbonation...

12 oz, bb Sept 08. Nearly opaque brown-black with a small head that lasts. Aroma is cocoa with slight caramel and coffee. Flavor is earthy caramel, cocoa and some slight apple and prickly herbs. A nice bitter finish of char, herbs and ash. Medium body is almost chalky-dry, and light on carbonation. Nice take on the traditional British style.

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small longlasting off-white head. Roasted malty coffee aroma with some hints of chocolate. Dry mlaty roasted chocolate and coffee flavor. Roasted malty chocolate and coffee finish. Thanks to Secret Santa for this bottle.

There is little to no aroma. It is black and opaque with a head that lingers a few minutes. The flavour is chocolatey and malty, but with an unnecessarily offensive overly bitter aftertaste. Really quite bitter and not recommended, though certainly still better than many beers. Just beware. Kind of boring and bitter.

Dark brown with thin tan head. Aroma of roasted malts and coffee. Taste of roasted malts, coffee and mild chocolate. Not a great effort for a porter.

loved this beer, had a bottle a few months ago, while I can’t remember much about the aroma, my lasting memory is that it’s a simple, smooth beer, that was dark in body, would definitely drink it again.

Bottle - Cream and chocolate aroma. A tad thin, but this beer does have a nice roasted/burnt flavor that helps compensate for the thin quality of the beer. A very enjoyable beer.

I don’t know. I liked it. Creamy with a kind of powdery chocolate quality. It is thin, but in this instance, I think it works well--more thirst quenching that way and, more importantly, kind of remarkable, for this thin body seems to bear the "weight" of the creaminess. Nothing wrong with this one at all.