Boulder Beer Planet Porter

Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: Porter
Boulder, Colorado USA

12oz bottle. Pours black in color with brown head. Aroma sweet, chocolate and roasted coffee. Taste dark chocolate, roasted malt and woody with dry finish.

12 oz bottle from Supermarket Liquors, Cheyenne, WY; Nose of vanilla, caramel, and toasted nutty chocolate; Hazy dark brown with a medium tan head; flavor has coffee, chocolate, minor bitterness; finish is vanilla and very mild bitterness. Not a 3.0 beer!

12 ounce bottle. Thanks Richard. Pours a dark black color which reveals itself to be more of a ruby hue when light shines in. A large beige colored head. The aroma is very nice; tons of roasted malts, caramel, a large vanilla aspect,and some light chocolate. The flavor is full of lightly roasted malt, caramel, some light hops, rich milky coffee in the middle and a long dry coffee in the finish. Very nice.

Pours very dark and the head dissipates very quickly. I have to admit, this tasted like mildewing grass. I thought it was gross. I could tell some roasted malts, but the whole nasty mildew flavor just killed me. I have two left, I’m hoping I just had a bad bottle. Will re-rate appropriately if the other two are better.

Bottle. Pours a dark dark dark red color with tan head. Smells of chocolate, raisin and a bit of hops. Tastes of wood, chocolate and a little fruit. Slight bitter after taste.

12 oz bottle. Pours dark ruby-black with rocky beige head. The aroma is cocoa, with hints of burnt wood, raisin, and maybe just a bit of licorice. The flavor burnt wood and bitter chocolate, with a bit of a spritzy fruity note. Finish is ashy with a little bit of fruity sweetness. It’s a little bit thinner than I was expecting. Uninteresting, really.

When you’re a beer geek/dork/nerd/whatever, the best gift second to necessities is beer (which I would argue is a necessity, even though others may disagree). A few weeks ago, my mom gifted me with a mixed 12 pack of Boulder Brewing Co. beer, one of which included the Planet Porter.
Planet Porter was a very complex porter, from what I smelled and tasted. Much like our planet herself, she was harmoniously diversified. In the nose, I detected prunes, licorice, cranberry tartness, and a faint hint of something sweet. The malts, maybe... she had a rather dry palate which lent itself to a lean, yet rounded body. Mouthfeel was smooth, with that hint of dry which lingers after the initial quaff. Black licorice, prunes, and sweet&sour lemon tantalizes my taste buds. After a while, I also detected a hint of fresh vanilla root. Planet Porter’s palate hits you right up front on the tip and sides of the tongue, while the sweet malted smoothness rolls along the back and into your throat. I had a bit of sediment eventually settle in the bottom of my glass as I finished my Planet Porter, rich flavor and smooth in the finish.
Overall, a very crisp porter, and not nearly as heavy or as malty as some other porters I have had. I could even drink Planet Porter on a hot summer’s day, even out fishing. A very nice light, flavorful, crisp porter and a good starter for those afraid of dark beers but curious enough to want to dabble.

Dark brown with a medium tan slowly fading head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, molasses and brown sugar. Thin and watery body tastes of chocolate, roasted malt, molasses and sweet malt.