Cooperstown Benchwarmer

Brewed by Cooperstown Brewing Co.
Style: Porter
Milford, New York USA

Redish brown pour with a massive chunky head. Fruity malt aroma and some alcohol. Fruity flavor with some malt sweetness. Very smooth and creamy finish.

[12 oz. bottle] Clear black pour with a mountain of tan foam. The aroma was very sweet with nice notes of chocolate and roasted malts. Flavor was pretty much the same... mix of coffee, chocolate and roasted malts and a hint of smoke. There was a lot of carbonation though. Made it very odd to drink. It kept foaming up as soon as I drank it. Very strange.

Semi-clear, dark brown color, huge fizzalicious head bubbling above... Bittersweet nose, coffee and cocoa notes, with a touch of ash. Smooth on the palate, easy going down, with plentiful flavor, gifted with enough chocolate and coffee in the taste to make drinking a treat, yet rather mellow and mild. Medium bodied, with a middling finish, leaves just enough of a tingle off the tongue, and a tasty echo of a true porter’s delight. Tasty cocoa finishes dryly. Gets better further into the bottle. My initial blase impressions were replaced with more forthright satisfaction. A very capable drink, a slightly above average porter. Nice try.

The Benchwarmer has a large creamy head of off white over a clear dark brown body with some ruby highlights at the edges. Light chocolate aroma and the flavor is both lightly sweet yet with a nice roast malt bitterness to balance. Creamy mouthfeel.

Pours a nice creamy head. Color is almost opaque chocolate. Aroma slightly bitter but subdued. First flavors were of coffee and chocolate. These seemed to blend into a more general toasty flavor with a background of bitter. Like liquid pumpernickel. It improves in the glass. I’d definitely buy it again as a good beer to have around.

Jan. 25, 2005; 12 oz. bottle. Very dark ruby color with root-beer-float-type head that hung on for the entire glass. Substantial lacing. Roasty, malty, fruity flavor with plenty of hop bite and lingering carbonated bitterness. Somehow, it works; and I pick this up from time to time to enjoy by the fire during the cold Central NY winter evenings . . . Add’l comments on Jan. 11, 2007: Tasting a lot of dark chocolate in this now and less carbonation. More "desserty" than I remember.

Poured a clear brown. Aroma and flavors were malty and roasted. Finish was too long of bitterness and hints of coffee. Light thin body.

Bottle pours almost black, brown hues on the edges, large rocky tannish colored head, with web like lacing.   Mild toasted malt nose, with hints of coffee and semi-sweet chocolate.   Soft malts and subtle bitterness hold up a semi-sweet cocoa like flavor.   Not terribly thick, or robust, but decent.   Light finish, toasted malts, fairly sweet, with lingering cocoa.   Thanks goes out to radiomgb for the trade!