Golden Valley Dundee Porter

Brewed by Golden Valley Brewery
Style: Porter
McMinnville, Oregon USA

Bomber from Liquid Solutions. The aroma is subdued, but smells good with some lightly roasted malt, sweet chocolate and creamed coffee. Pours dark brown, but settles black with a tight pink sized head that is bubbly, mocha colored and diminishing. <P> Water fore is tart and almost spritzy. Very limp and lactic with not even a good concentration of what flavors are present and a glaring lack of traditional roast, chocolate, coffee, burnt flavors or even some of the less common raisin, molasses flavors. This might be slightly infected, but regardless I highly doubt it would be very good under optimal conditions.

22 oz bottle, via Dubbercody. Pours a very dark brown clear body under a one finger tight bubbled brown head that had some decent retention. Aroma is very chocolaty with a light roasted malt component. Moderate hoppiness and a touch of coffee. Flavor is more roasty than chocolaty and a little thin. There’s also a light lactic tinge on the finish with moderate bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, slightly grainy in texture with moderate fizzy carbonation. Finishes lightly dry. Overall, this was pretty decent but the roastiness could be toned down a little to let the chocolate shine through more.

Bottle, Liquid Solutions. Pours very dark in color, with virtually no head. Sweet chocolate aroma with a bit of maltiness. Smoothe flavor of roasted malt. Quite a bit of roasted coffee bitterness.

Dundee Porter pours deep dark brown with a miniscule light brown head that’s gone in moments. The initial aromas are of roasted coffee beans and tar. There’s no indication of the aroma hops at this point. Later, some chocolate creme aspects appear in the nose. However, the hops are prominent in the flavor. To the point the malts almost take a back seat. The bitterness is managed well, and I’d describe the mixing of the roasted malts with the hop flavoring as "burnt hop" flavor. On the palate the beer is smooth and not heavy. The finish briefly offers bittersweet chocolate and then is gone. I’m not sure what to think here. This beer has the odd characteristic that the hops become more pronounced throughout the bottle. Much better than others from this brewer.

Lightly roasted notes of chocolate & coffee. Needs a bit more hoppiness. Too thin bodied. Weak finish. Unmemorable.

On tap at Golden Valley Brewery. As dark as you get without being completely opaque, slight ruby tint when held to sunlight. Tannish head. Chocolate and coffee present, but not overbearing. Fairly one-dimensional flavour that quickly fades. Just a slight cookie-like aftertaste.

[Tap – Brewery] Deep brown color with a small head. This brew had a deep malty character with chocolate and toffee flavors. The beer was a great drinking beer. Very dry and a great overall flavor of a porter great job Golden Valley.

Nice dark black color,medium sized tan head that had a good hang time then fadd to leave a bit of lace behind.The aroma was malty and coffeeish with a nice chocolatey side and maybe a bit of hops in there somewhere as well.The flavor was very nice malty and chocolatey with a bit of some coffee notes and dried fruit.it goes over very smooth with a nice slightly bitter finish with some chocolate notes and a hint at some smoke in there as well.A very nice brew and well worth having another or better yet a 12er for later.