Gearys London Porter

Brewed by D.L. Gearys Brewing Co.
Style: Porter
Portland, Maine USA

Bottle. small tan head that was mostly lasting, fine-small sized bubbles, poor lacing, no visible carbonation, mostly opaque with a little light coming through, and a dark brown hue with a hint of red. Malty, chocolate, coffee, roasty nose. Malty, coffee, roasty, and burnt flavor. Smooth and somewhat dry mouthfeel. Light-medium body. Drinkable, but not outstanding.

12 oz bottle. Pours a dark brown with a large fluffy tan head. Aroma of light hops, roasted malts, with hints of chocolate. Flavors of coffee, roasted malt, light hop bitterness. Finish is a little weak with a mineral and slightly metallic taste following the burnt toast maltiness. Mouthfeel is thin with soft carbonation leaving a somewhat watery impression. Very drinkable session beer, but nothing special.

Liked it a lot. Light feeling in mouth, not thick even though dark brown thick-appearance. Coffee aroma and flavored. Very easy going down.

Deep black porter with a nice thick moka head. Sweet vinous chocolate aroma, very smooth and sweet, with vanilla points. In mouth, lightly lactic smooth chocolate, not too sweet but lacking in roastiness. Very restrained but sustained bitter chocolate. Not bad considering the beer is over a year old.

Pours brown with a nice tan head. Scents of nuts and chocolate come to light before anything else. Tastes of dark chocolate and nuts with a decent cherry like finish.

Dark chocolate brown pour with little head, even with some encouraging. Toasted malts with a touch of spice and cocoa to the nose. Pretty tame for a porter and I thought single dimensional until a late coffee, caramel registered. Good honest porter but nothing over the top.

(Bottle) Purchased at Shaw’s in Freeport, Maine. Pours a deep mahogany, lighlty-carbonated body with a large, frothy almond head. Nose of a mildly tin and roasted aroma. Flavours of roasted malt, bitter cocoa. Average.

(12 oz bottle) Pours very dark brown, beige head. Some lacing, some of head kind of coagulates and floats on surface in globs. Mouthfeel a bit watery but not bad. Tastes pretty ho-hum, I was getting a vegetable-like aftertaste, like I’ve tasted in homebrew.