Foothills Barrel Aged Peoples Porter

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

Name: People’s Porter, BA
Date: January 10, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, HMoG
Appearance: black, fine beige head, bits of lace
Aroma: sweet bourbon and vanilla aroma, lots of vanilla
Flavor: rich chocolate and bourbon flavor, vanilla and caramel sweetness brings out the rich chocolate and turns it into a bourbon candy, light bitterness comes in with the oak to balance it

Name: People’s Porter, BA
Date: January 31, 2009
Mode: cask
Source: acat beerfest
Score: 3.8
a bit more subdued on cask with a restrained sweetness preventing some of the other characters from coming out a s strong,

Name: People’s Porter, BA
Date: February 07, 2009
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
better than sex, sexual chocolate that is

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 9/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 18/20
Rating: 4.3/5.0
Drinkability: 10/10
Score: ***4

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.

Duck-Rabbit’s Milk Stout was recently given a nice, long rest in a barrel of Pappy Van Winkle’s 23-Year Old Family Reserve. Appearance: Dark brown, near black body with a few tired-looking, beige bubbles resting on top. Smell: Porter-minded notes of chocolate and roasty coffee with the strong scent of quality bourbon whiskey leading the charge. Taste: Dark maltiness displayed as a taste of bittersweet chocolate with a minor toffee-like sweetness and a swig of morningtime coffee. The bourbon definitely dominates the flavor, but, thankfully, doesn’t really detract from it as it delivers an abundance of charred oak barrel flavor with a light bitterness trailing close behind. Lesser tastes of coconut and brown sugar. Richly bourbony finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-low carbonation. Drinkability: Kudos to the folks at Foothills for producing a fine, tasty bourbon barrel-aged porter.

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.

Tasted at sexual chocolate release party! Dark brown pour with a frothy tan head. Oak, vanilla, and whiskey on the nose. Thin to medium bodied. Flavor follows suite when compared to the aroma.

Tasted at Foothills Sexual Chocolate release. Pours dark black that allows light the head is frothy light tan. The nose is very nice, prominent bourbon and oak coming through, very rich, tannic vanilla character, some of the base porter comes through. The flavor is oaky and tart bourbon character, chocolatey, rich, some roast shows up. Tannic and oaky on the palate.

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.

Draft at the brewpub during the Sexual Chocolate release party. The pour is dark brown with some tan head. The nose has plenty of vanilla, bourbon, oak. Same in the flavor and very good. A bit watery though. I suppose that just makes it easier to drink, though I’d prefer a bit more fullness.