Eel River Certified Organic Porter

Brewed by Eel River Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Fortuna, California USA

12 ounce bottle from Hops and Vines in Asheville, NC. Pours a reddish brown color with a medium head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma is roasted malts, nuts and a bit of a sour note. Taste is roasted malts, caramel and light chocolate. Medium bodied.

Moderate head with staying power. Decent sticky lace on the glass. Color is dark brown with the smallest amount of light to pass and still be noticeable. Mild dried cocoa powder aroma. Some chalk. Notes of (hazel)nuts and vanilla. A tasty and drinkable porter. The body is thinner than most porters. The nuttiness and cocoa prevail. I don’t detect any hop bitterness, so this is a malty porter. Good to style.

Pours a medium viscosity deep brown with no head. Light chocolate and roasted malt in the nose and flavor. Kind of bland.

12oz bottle. Thick, dark orange-brown color. Patchy, oily head. Sweet toffee aroma which indicates potential old age to me. The taste is certainly unique, a little pungence with the watery malt sweetness. Not outright bad, crisp with some flavor to it, but certainly sub par. Chocolaty, but lacking depth and fullness.

~Pours light black with off white head. ~Light coffee chocolate malt aroma. ~Mild bitter chocolate malt flavor. ~Medium feel, quick bitter finish. ~Pretty weak porter. Drinkable, just a bit boring.

Bottle. Had a decent chocolate and dry coffee grounds aromas. Dark body and aggressive pour got a good tan head. Flavor had a creamy milk chocolate feel and that was surprising considering the last two El River organic beers were mainly water for flavor. Dry chocolate and some roasted malt aftertaste. Decent brew.

Bottle. Pours deep brown/almost black with a 2 finger creamy tan head that leaves spotty lacing. The nose is chocolate milk and light roasted malt. The taste is cocoa, chocolate, roasted malt and some molasses with light bitter coffee in the finish. Medium semi-creamy mouthfeel. Not bad at all. The best of their organic series that I’ve had.

Dark brown black beer with a thin head. Aroma is quite chocolatey with a lot of strange swetness through the middle. It’s kind of tart and sour but without being acidic (I know that makes no sense). Kind of a strange vegetal character through the middle. There is a sort of lactic acidity and a bit of sweetness. It smells okay, but it doesn’t actually work all that well. Smells better than it tastes.