Founders Porter

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Black with big, creamy brown head / Rich roast tobacco nose / Medium body, vinuous, a touch thin but some chewiness, with good balance and finish / Flavors of roast coffee, tobacco, unsweetened chocolate, and plums / Thin body only flaw.

Darker brown color with a medium tan head. Aroma is big and roasty with a heavy dose of coffee, dark chocolate, and even wood. Flavor is big on the roast with dark chocolates, dark coffee, and even some vinous fruit. Finishes very nice and has a mild hoppiness at the end. Very nice mouthfeel. For a standard porter, this is nothing short of incredible.

Thanks to my bro for sharing this. Pours a rich black color with thick frothy head that fades quickly leaving a nice amount of lacing on the glass. Aroma is of roasted coffee, dark chocolate malts and a bit of anise and dark fruit. Taste is some milk chocolate, cocoa powder, light floral hops and mild coffee. Full bodied and silky smooth, this is a heck of a porter.

Bottle. Nice deep black body with nice head. Aroma is a nice blend of chocolate and hops. A very hoppy porter but it blended in nice with the chocolate malt. Smooth.

2008 Bottle - Thanks tjtjresh - Pours a medium consistency dark brown with a malty brown head...aroma is suprisingly hoppy, chocolate, vanilla...flavour is an explosion, smokey on the front, yielding to bitter charred wood and a massive creamy bourbon barrel like finish...never had a porter like this, smooth with very fine carbonation, damn that was good...

12 oz bottle generously sent to me by tjthresh. Pour is deep brown, blocks the light. Nice one inch off white head that falls fast. Only small amounts of lacing are left behind. Aroma of milk chocolate, chalky-roasty malt. Some tobacco leafs. Really engaging nose, nice. Taste is lactic milk chocolate and roastiness. Some bright bitter pine hoppiness to the finish. Palate is silky, smooth chalky, dry and nice. Overall this was a nice one, though the pine hops over played the soft roastiness a bit in the taste for me. Thanks for sending this my way, Tom.

pitch black pour with a finger sized cocoa brown head. Aroma is Toffee, coffee, heavily roasted malt, and a bit of cocoa. Flavor is chocolate, caramel, coffee, cream. Finishes pretty bitter, lots of burnt roastiness and rich creamy sweetness to back it up. This has perfect carbonation for that sweet/bitter thing it has going on. I’m pretty torn on this one. I can’t see why it is rated at a 4, yet I have it at a 3.9 and feel my score isn’t bloated. Odd.

Pours a pitch black with some bits of off-white particulate and a thin mocha head that fades quickly. Aroma is chocolate milk, chocolate brownies, coffee, fudge, and light roasts. Mouthfeel is very creamy and silky, with a slight bitterness on the finish. Taste is chocolate brownies, coffee, medium roasts, with a tinge of bitterness. Well done!