Breckenridge Vanilla Porter

Brewed by Breckenridge Brewery
Style: Porter
Denver, Colorado USA

1. Sampler at the Breckenridge Brewery 2220 Blake Street, Denver 08/10/2008 Small white head. Mid brown coloured and a little fruity with a vanilla flavour. Crisp dry and slightly bitter roast finish. 2. On Tap at the Breckenridge Brewery 2220 Blake Street, Denver 13/10/2008 Slightly sweet aroma. Dark red coloured a little rich and smooth on the palate with some dryness in a crisp vanilla flavoured finish.

Courtesy of Fonefan. Dark brown with a red hue and a nice head. The vanilla aroma is very clean and nice, and I also find notes of roasted malt and a little coffee. The flavour has a vanilla-sweetness, notes of roasted malt, light coffee and a roasted bitterness in the finish. It’s a nice vanilla porter, not cloying as many other vanilla porters/stouts, and it has a lot of flavour in spite of the only 4,7%.

A Sim rate (on tap at Flying Saucer, Houston): Not much in the aroma. Some chocolate and a bit of cream, but it really needs much much more. I even tried to smell it away from the rocket tots... nothin’! The flavour is oh so much better. It’s vanilla, chocolate, some cream, but mostly brandy and bitter malt. It’s good, but not balanced enough.

12oz bottle. Poured a dark brown color with an averaged sized tan head. Aromas of roasted and toasted nuts, chocolate, and lighter vanilla. Tastes of vanilla (more than the aromas), chocolate, lighter roast, and nuts. Body a tad on the thin side.

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a medium-sized tan head. Aroma of wood, chocolate, and vanilla extract. Flavor of vanilla and chocolate. Palate is a bit thin.

on tap-pours a tan head and black color with red tint. Aroma is vanilla, chocolate. Taste is vanilla, chocolate, dark malt. Nice. OK carbonation. Occasional.

An enormous vanilla aroma comes off the clear and dark burgundy brown. A small off-white veil remains atop it all. The vanilla is quite overwhelming, it becomes challenging to find anything else. Roastiness remains moderate, while the sweetness inherent to vanilla is heavy, though not cloying. Gently leafy, gently milky, borderline hazelnuts; basically all about timid malts and NOT timid vanilla. The mouthfeel is rather creamy, though only thin-medium in size. For the ones in the mood only!

Pours a clear dark mahogany with a thin-lacing wispy dark tan head. Aroma has some sweet vanilla and milk chocolatey malt Body starts with a sweet caramel malty and sugary vanilla flavor with a mildly bitter finish. Decently balanced and interesting brew.