Founders Porter

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

Pours a clean black with an average tan head and that leaves some lacing on the glass. Aroma has a light burnt note but a heavy chocolate, coffee and toasted malt nose. Flavor has lots of roasted malt notes, chocolate, coffee and a light acidic, dryness to it. Modest body, with a thin sticky feeling and very low carbonation. All of this combines to make a very tasty porter and one that I will make sure is hanging around my house a bit. Very good and well balanced and really epitomizes the style.

Bottle pours a pure opaque black with a perfect chocolate-milk dense head that dissipates quickly but laces beautifully. Smells of dark chocolate, tiny twist of coffee, and toffee. Great flavor of roasted almonds, toffee chips with some hoppy bite up front, bitter coffee near the end. Chocolaty malts throughout and a bit of an astringent alcohol twinge at the very back. Very good, deserving of a spot next to Olfab, but I’d need to re-rate side-by-side to see if it can truly hang.

Dark brown, nearly black beer with a dark brown heads. Leaves nice lacing. Coffee aroma and flavor. Biting coffee finish. Some alcohol in the flavor. Medium bodied, very nice beer, not very complex, but very enjoyable.

Bottle split by nbutler11. A great favor. Nose is full toffee with a mild whiff of Danish dirt. Flavor is more of that with creamy chocolate butter and roast. Among the greats of Porter.

The platonic ideal of beer. (Filling in characters so it lets me most this rating. Seriously, perfect. Even if my girlfriend doesn’t like it.)

Bottle at Pinhook. Pours a black hue with quickly dissipating head and no lacing. Nose is roasty sweet malt goodness with big dark chocolate presence. Flavor hits the palate with a choco-hammer followed by a touch of roast and lightly bitter hops for balance, followed by a milky sweet malt finish. Full-bodied with velvety texture, a great specimen of rich Porter flavor and balance, another megahit from Founders!

Room Temp: Black pour. Big tightly,beaded head with a lovely creamy foam atop. Clingy lace. Great aroma of a mixture of roast and hops with underlying cocoa and vanilla. Light,oily texture. Very creamy. Upfront a good mixture of chocolate malt and hops. Tasteful roastiness,and more slick malts follow. Finsih is sweet,with roasty notes,then lingering hop,chocolate,mocha,notes. Little under mid glass this has lost a little body. Overall though,a great mixture of hop,chocolate,and mocha flavors. Spotty lace all over the empty glass. Tasty stuff.

12 oz bottle pours blackish-brown with a small but persistent beige head. Aroma is bitter chocolate. Taste is bitter chocolate, coffee, a bit of hoppiness, but really well-balanced and tasty. Excellent.