Breckenridge Vanilla Porter

Brewed by Breckenridge Brewery
Style: Porter
Denver, Colorado USA

This beer looks pretty good. Has a solid off-white head, with a good looking black color. The head doesn’t fade away fast, which is good. The flavor is not what I expected. Everything is very subtle. I smell the vanilla a lot, but I wish I could say that for the taste. The vanilla is not as crisp as I thought it would be. I was expecting more of an obvious vanilla flavor, but that is not the case. The vanilla and the malt/coffee flavor are very mild. The beer has a decent palate. This is a decent palate but the malts and the vanilla and the coffee, all seem very muted. In reading the description this beer leans more towards nutty for me than it does coffee. Decent brew.

Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of cereal and mild coffee, light hop and yeast notes of herbs and earth, with cola, vanilla and bourbon without the alcohol. Head is small, frothy, light brown with fair lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is clear dark brown with a red tint. Flavor is moderately sweet and lightly acidic to start and finishes lightly sweet. Palate is medium, oily and has a soft carbonation. I’m not used to having vanilla in my beer, but this fit this Porter very well.

Enjoyed this on tap @ the Smokehouse in Cowlumbus for my friend Aaron’s birthday (in Novemeber I think). It was one of the brewpub’s "guest" offerings. Nose of vanilla, malt, and molasses. Vanilla becomes dominant as brew warms. The brew is dark brown with ruby highlights. The creamy tan head leaves light lace. The front is roasted malt with light acidity. The grainy toasted finish is bold. The full body is soft & dry. The finish feels clean.

On tap at brewpub. Pours dark brown with tan head. Aroma is roast malt, chocolate, caramel and light vanilla. Flavor is roasty with chocolate, vanilla, and caramel. Nice vanilla sweetness. Very smooth on the palate and an easy drinker. Solid porter.

Poured a dark black with a nice tan head. Aroma of strong vanilla and malt. Taste started with malt and had an aftertaste of a vanilla extract type taste which lasted a little too long. Not bad at all but different. Had a medium to full body and had an atypical flavor and body for a porter. Again, liked it a lot and would probably buy again. Nice brew.

huh. whattaya know. this isn’t bad. now you’re sure it’s from breckenridge? wow. for real? i mean, THE breckenridge? the purveyors of beers generally renowned for being broken in spirit, weak-- and so lame that if they were horses you’d shoot them all out of pure pity? get outta here! well. knock me over with a feather. this vanilla porter isn’t a big beer by any means, nor a particularly complex beer, and sure, it’s a bit sweet and gimmicky. but huh... not bad, given a reasonably magnanimous mood and a mid-evening thirst open to a harmless frolic. good dark color of just the sort of hue an earthworm would wiggle into and think he’d died and gone to rich loamy worm heaven. good head had some trippy little paisley swirls in the lingering lace. aroma is root-beer and chocolate vanilla-- it’d make quite a dish of ice cream. feel is watery, carbonation is as wildly enthusiastic as a young border collie in an agility match-- yet that basic vanilla fudge thing in the flavor, with some rooty bitterness, coffee-like roastiness, and it’s late drying effect-- really works as a fun little beverage.

Poured like water, dark and very carbonated. Huge head. Smell was light with a little hint of vanilla. First sip blanketed my mouth with vanilla and alcohol. Too much for me. Burnt, coffee bitterness after taste. The after taste also lingers in your mouth a little bit.

bottle aquired from a trade with The_Captain. thanks Mark. pours almost exactly like Coca-Cola, a very deep brown with a bubbly off-white head. smell is mostly malt with a little bit of vanilla and maybe a hint of oatmeal. flavor is hard to describe , a bit of toasted malt with some vanilla and a bit of some unidentifiable chemical. finishes with a bittersweet chocolate flavor. it is decent but it is nothing to write home about.