Dundee Porter

Brewed by High Falls Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Rochester, New York USA

Dark brown pour with a tall fizzy tan head. Chocolate, nut and apricot aroma. Creamy roasty body with chocolate toffee and nut taste. Lacking body but decent.

Sampled on 3/27/2009. The porter pours a dark brown color from a 12oz bottle. Small to medium sized tan foamy head. The aroma is chocolate and coffee, somewhat sweet. A medium bodied porter. The malts are chocolate and coffee, a little sweet. The hops are earthy and floral. A touch of vanilla flavor as well. It’s a little sweet and a touch thin, but a decent porter. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a very deep brown with ruby highlights. Small, off-white, creamy head. The head is a little quick to fade. Light coffee and roasted malt notes in the nose. Medium carbonation with a medium mouthfeel. The first taste I get is a off medicinal note. Pair that with some roasted malt, slight coffee notes, and a dry bitterness, and you have a beer that isn’t very good. The finish is a lingering off bitter taste. This is pretty dreadful stuff and I would not recommend wasting your time with it.

Bottle. Pours a nice black with a small, foamy, tan head that slowly fades. Taste is of roasted malts, caramel, chocolate, coffee and smoke. Similar aroma. Slightly sweet with a slight bitter finish. Easy to drink, enjoyable and reasonably priced.

12 fl.oz bottle. Black body with a nice small foamy-creamy beige head. Moderated roasted aroma, light dried fruits in the nose. The characteristic roasted flavor rules the medium body with some sweet caramel, light vanilla and coffee taste. Fine

355 mL bottle. Almost black, with a small off-white head that quickly recedes to a film. A bit of roast, some dark fruit, and some astringency in the aroma. Flavour has fairly prominent roast, sweet chocolate milk, and a slight nuttiness. Creamy. Easily the best of the Dundees offerings I’ve tried - but that’s not saying much.

Bottle and served in snifter: Deep brownish hue with a surprisingly nice creamy beige head that left nice lace upon the glass. The nose is walnut, toast, grains, milk chocolate, prune, hint of grassy hop and coffee, again a bit surprising and better than expected. Ah then came the tasting, well not bad but hardly memorable either. Milk chocolate and nutty with a thin flabby toasty background that also has a hint of lacto sourness. Very light hint of hop bitters, anise and smoke upon the finish. The mouth feel is smooth and chalky, a tad too thin but then it is a porter after all. You can do better of course but then you could do a lot worse than the Dundee Porter. Quaffable.

sampler pack aroma of malt and....beer. but that’s about it. flavor is milk chocolate and mild coffee with a strange acidic component most likely from the high carbonation. slightly bitter finish to this light bodied yet creamy brew. surprisingly good drinkability and they go down quick!