Foothills Barrel Aged Peoples Porter

Brewed by Foothills Brewing
Style: Porter
Winston-Salem, North Carolina USA

Pours a ruby brown color with a brown head. Aroma is sweet caramel, bourbon, oak, vanilla, and some alcohol. Flavor is caramel, bourbon, roast, vanilla, oak, and dry oak bitter finish.

Draft at the Saucer and poured into a snifter. Poured a nice black color with a short lived brown head. Moderate lacing throughout the tasting. The bourbon in this comes first in the smell followed by vanilla and chocolate. The taste is a very nice blend of bourbon and vanilla. At first I thought it was a bit sweet but as it warmed it balanced itself. A fantastic beer from Foothills that I will try to get whenever they have it on draft.

I think I had the Bourbon barrel version of this at EBF Session 1. Aroma of light bourbon, chocolate, light toast, and oak. Taste has some mild roasted notes, with a nice amount of chocolate, light bourbon, molasses. Medium bodied, finishes with a mild to moderate hop bitterness. Nicely done.

Draft at EBF in Pappy Van Winkle Barrels. Pours a dark brown body with garnet hues and an off white head. Sweet malty, scotch, woody dry with some alcohol. Damp wood, some light smoke, stale milk with a dry mellow woody finish. interesting enough.

Not my favorite of the night. Seemed too thin and boozy, with not enough porter to back it up. Aroma was good, bourbon, wood, vanilla, chocolate, and malt. Texture was good as well. Just too hot and slightly unbalanced. I only got a hint of roast and chocolate in the taste and I wish there had been more. I think this could be good with time, but too young and hot for my tastes.

First beer sampled at Pre-Sex. I actually think the People’s Porter is among the best beers Foothills brews. My first thought was that the bourbon overwhelmed the base beer, but it actually settled down fairly quickly. With a big pour, the sharp and very young bourbon came on aggressively in the nose. But while the base is slightly occluded, it’s a rich and satisfying beer whose sweet flavors blend well with the deep roasts of the porter.

At presex. Pretty beer with a distinct and complex bourbon character. The pappy van winkle shows and I actually enjoy it. Dark brown with brown sugar, vanilla, roasted malts, chocolate. Tasty beer

Dark brown pour with a nice whitish head, at the Sexual Chocolate pre-party. Earthy malt, coffee aroma with some vanilla, barrel hints. Flavor has no such hints, it is right there smack up front. Vanilla, oak and molasses really prominent. Earthy malt and mocha/coffee were really suppressed by the barrel. Finished pretty sweet, different from the typical porter. Just a bit too much candy like sweetness for me. I enjoyed it but it probably would not be for everyone.