Cambridge Charles River Porter

Brewed by Cambridge Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Tap@Cambridge, brewing, Cambridge, Ma. Quite smooth. Choc, mocha and berry fruit. Some plastic flavours, which kept its score down, but nice enough.

On tap at brewpub. Pours a very rich dark color with a foamy tan head. Nose is of rich malts and chocolate. Taste is chocolate and coffee with a nice medium body and a velvety mouth feel.

4 oz sample @ Brewpub. Ok nose. Lite chocolate, little eggy, nutty, some caramel. Clean dark brownish black color. Nice roasted flavors, chocolate, nutty, hints of citrus as it warmed, little soapy. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel, bitter roasty finish, nice brew, seemed classic in everyway.

Noire aux teintes d’ébène, mousse beige raisonnablement persistante. Très agréables parfums de riches chocolats constellés de grains de café huileux et fraîchement torréfiés. En bouche, le café s’exprime librement et vient complexifier les flaveurs de malt rôti. Une bonne touche de fumée style bûche de bois fumant est aussi bien marquée. Corps moyen, carbonatation restant en arrière-plan. Bien fait! En fut à la brassserie, le 17 Juin 2005

Draft at the brewery: Poured black with a miderate tan head. Sweet chocolate, roasted malt aroma. Flavor is moderately sweet with mostly roasted malt and choclate with a hint of cherry. Good.

Roasted and chocolate malts in the fairly typical aroma. Opaque black with thin cover of tan head. Chocolate and roasty flavours are somewhat chalky with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body with fair carbonation. Decent and well-brewed - this is a good and drinkable beer. On tap at the brewpub with MartinT, muzzlehatch and Rastacouere.

New England Road Trip Easter ’05 with MartinT, tiggmtl and Rastacouere, beer #57. Sample at the brewpub. Medium-thick body, near-black with little head...roasty, chocolaty nose, simple but effective...solid, robust, bitter cappucino and baker’s chocolate in the body, very dense, bitter and somewhat chalky at the finish with all the sugar near the front.

Light roastiness and dark chocolate offer pleasing bitterness to play with the resinous hops...Good balance between the molasses sweetness and sturdy hop bitterness...As Rasta says, this was the only interesting number in their 4 regulars that night...The seasonal specials though are an entirely different story!!...