Dogwood Youngbloods Imperial Porter

Formerly brewed at Dogwood Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Atlanta, Georgia USA

I just drank my last bottle from this now departed brewer. I kept this bottle for 2 years. Pours black like used crankcase oil with nice lacing. Almost no carbonation. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, & burned malt. Rich taste of malt, chocolate, & peat. In sum, an excellent Porter-style beer (and I hope that this recipe will be passed on to a brewer that will continue to brew this delicious Porter).

22 oz bottle via trade with kramer17801(thanks jason!). Pours out a motor oil thick midnight black with SMALL 2 IN" head. Wonderful aroma of espresso, chocolate, toffee, vanilla, and plums. Creamy mouthfeel. Starts off chcolately sweet and ends in a roasted burnt espresso finish. Strong bitter licorice aftertaste. Medium carbonation. This is a great Baltic Porter and the most perfectly balanced between dry roasted bitter espresso and still retaining a little chocolate sweetness. Yummy stuff. Oh, and give it 20 minutes to warm, and it is groovilicious and out of sight!

Bottled. Pours a dark brown with brown head. Aroma is dark roasted, sweet, coffee and chocolate. Taste is dark malts, coffee, chocolate

big thanks to Ohiodad for sending me this retired gem in a recent trade. starts off with an aroma of chocolate and hints of coffee and some smoke. appearance is a dark inky brown, fast fading head which shrinks to a ring of tan lace. flavor follows the aroma with dark bittersweet chocolate, coffee and smoky peat. what really comes through in the flavor is all of the malt, rich and roasty. palate is rich, thick and oily. good stuff, thanks Scott!

Jimmack "06. Dark brown body, Dark tan head. Lots of chocolate and dried fruit. Dark chocolate and bitter taste. This was smooth and creamy, for a 2+ year old balti, excellent.

Bottle from a trade with TheBeerCellar2. Opaque ebony with a tiny dark tan head. Smoky malt aroma with chocolate, molasses, and plum notes. Smoky malt flavor with chocolate and caramel-mocha tones, and a bit of the hops shows up in a bitter note to the finish. It got more flavorful as it slowly warmed!

Opaque brown. Rich tan head slowly fizzles into a tight collar. Deeply roasty nose with smoky molasses, wax, and burnt fruitcake. Very minor oxidation. Prickly, yet gentle, carbonation. Opens very softly with a lactic sweetness which is soon cut by a gritty earthy roast onslaught. Truckloads of bitter char and black chocolate follow suit and continue to uphold the body. Hugely complex display of malt, with a peated malt and smoky molasses blend. Intensely rich java latches onto the palate and seemingly forces it downward with a weighty pull. Powdery textures of bready malts provide a complementary cushion to the metallic malts and subtle vinous character. Fairly slick due to the restrained carbonation, and quite inky. Tar drizzled java dominates the finish as a wet bed of unspent roasted grains deflects the gritty roast snap. Other than the overt graininess, which is a bit of a detraction, this is a delicious malt mammoth.

Bottle from thebeercellar2: Dark brown pour with a good sized head. Aroma had some vanilla and roasted chocolaty notes. Flavor had a nice sweet roasty combination, it did feel like it was just a little too old. Had a perfect mouthfeel for a porter, very good beer.