Deschutes Black Butte Porter

Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: Porter
Bend, Oregon USA

Bottle from KenB. Thanks! Pours a dark brown with no head. Nose and flavor of roasted malts, little bit of chocolate, slightly bitter finish. A little thin on the palate. Meh.

I’ve had this on tap a couple times at Old Chicago and just brought home a 6-pack of bottles. Has a nice nearly black colour with a quickly diminishing tan head. Roasted malt aroma with some hop notes. Has a dark roasted malt flavour with a good amount of dark chocolate hints, just a little bit sweet. Has just the right amount of hops to balance things out. The roast and chocolate flavours stay through the finish. Mouthfeel is a little thinner than expected, but perfectly mated to the flavour. A very pleasant, easy to drink porter that I keep reaching for.

Gotta say I love this beer. It’s got those hickory notes when it approaches proper temperature and that chocolateyness that Ican’t get enough of. Awesome.

Draft at Taphouse Grill in downtown Seattle. Pours deep brown with a beige head. Aroma of dark caramel, molasses, and hazlenut. Medium bodied but with a thin texture. Initial flavor of a bolder nut brown ale with moderate sweetnes. This transitions to to some tame roastiness and smoke mid palate. Just enough hops to keep it in balance. Finish is smooth.. Like a brown porter, this is not very aggressive. However, this is well made and would be a beer for those days where you want to give the palate a rest.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of kenb. Thanks Ken! Pours a dark brown color with a medium mostly lasting beige head. There is visible carbonation. The aroma is sweet with roasted malt, some chocolate, and a hint of coffee. The flavor is very much the same as the aroma. There is a sweetness that underlies everything else. Dark chocolate, roasted malts, and coffee. A hint of dark fruit. Medium bodied. Easy drinking beer.

Bottle from Ray’s in Redmond, OR. Pours a nice dark brown/black with a good beige head. Smells of faint black licorice and malt. Tastes caramel, malt, and a touch of black licorice. Slightly smoky aftertaste with a slight hop taste. Good and smooth. Nice porter.

On tap at their pub. Sweet coffee caramel malts with some bitterness. Black with a tan head. I liked the malts quite a bit and it reminded me of a slightly less complex fuller’s.

Pours an opaque black with a medium-sized tan head. The aroma has some chocolate and lots of caramel. The flavor is much sweeter than I was expecting. It is heavy with sweet malts and caramel (lots of diacetyl) and some chocolate. The mouthfeel is creamy and mildly carbonated, and it is full-bodied. Overall, not what I was hoping, but not bad.