Estes Park Porter

Brewed by Estes Park Brewery
Style: Porter
Estes Park, Colorado USA

Poured a dark brown with a smaller sized tan head. Subtle aromas and tastes of cocoa, coffee and roasted malts. Thinner body. Nothing about this one really stood out for me.

on tap-color is brown. Tastes nutty, malty, mild carbonation. Mild, lacking character beer.

I must've had a different beer than everyone else, because mine was full of sweet roasted malts and a very smooth body. Good amount of hoppy bitterness balances very well. A very nice session porter.

A very dark rudy brown color. Small dark cream colored head. Aroma of brown sugar and molassas. Very light bodied. Flavors of dark chocolate with a minimal citrus undertone. Slight alcohol flavor half way through. A husky dark malt finish.

Head is initially small, frothy, brown, mostly diminishing. Body is dark brown to black. Aroma is moderately malty (roasted grain, caramel, nutty). Flavor is lightly sweet, lightly bitter, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly bitter, lightly acidic. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly astringent.

12 oz bottle purchased at Brennan’s Country Market in Brookfield, WI (Oct 2005). Pours rather thinnish, cola-like, with smallish decaying head that leaves a slight taupe ring, no lacing...bit chocolaty and prune-inflected in the aroma, again a bit like Coke, but with some hints of dark chocolate and coffee as it warms...body quite roasty and dry, initially rather beguiling but quickly becoming quite thin and merely dry and papery towards the finish, not nearly enough malt character and a one-dimensional bitterness.

Bottled. Poured a deep reddish-brown with a towering cap of creamy beige head and quite a bit of small sediment suspended in there. Nose was airy with faint, burnt dark chocolate malts and soap... not much going on, and not at all enticing. Flavor picked it up a couple notches with more rounded burnt chocolate, some spices, and husky dry hoppage... palate was thin and slick, leaving bitter coffee roast and dried leaves at the finish. Not a good porter.

On tap at the brewpub, 4/13/06: Dark black with an off-white foam top. Light smoky aroma. Smooth and lightly bittered with an odd twist. Bit thin. But OK.