Grays Bully Porter

Brewed by Grays Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Bottle. Deep brown with some copper while held to light. The head us thin and light tan colored. The aroma has some light milk chocolate and leather. There is also some old rotting apple. The taste has some strange stale caramel and nasty leather. There is also some cocoa in the finish, but the off flavors blow it away. Plastic? Nasty.

On draught at the Grays Tied House in Verona, Wisconsin. Pours a clear copper amber brew with a fast dissolving off-white head the dissipates to a thin white ring. Aroma of roasted caramel malt, a touch of toffee, some flowery hops and a hint of roasted nuts. Taste is light bodied, plenty of carbonation with flavors of roasted caramel, some Brazilian nuts, a hint of flowery hops and some Ivory soap. Finish is watery, slightly crisp with no aftertaste. Definitely not the dark and roasted malt porters I am used to enjoy but maybe a decent light amber beer.

12oz bottle my niece brought for me to a family gathering. Over carbinated sweet aroma with some roast. Dark brown body with off white dirty head. Flavor had more carbination sweetness with some smoke and roasted nut flavor on finish. Still that sweetener lingered on the palate.

Bottle; poured a somewhat dark brown, but really not that much. Aroma was pretty light; a light roasted and coffee mix. Really not terrible tasting, but it really doesn’t come very close to the style. Caramel with a light roasted presence; some sweetness, but it tasted like it was there unintentionally.

Pours dark copper and reddish with a tan head. Quite light for a porter. The aroma has nice dark rich malt, milk chocolate, vanilla and cream. The aroma did not get reflected in the taste though. Medium body that’s quite light with prickly sharp carbonation. The flavor starts with very thin cocoa, some green apple tartness and phenolic spice. The finish has spice and really doesn’t seem true-to-style at all.

Root beer? Nah can’t be. But it sure as hell tastes like it. Seriously this would be the ideal Beer float with some ice cream. John couldn’t have been more right with his description. Easily could have passed for an English Brown Ale. Nothing about it tastes like a porter. Nutty, caramel and cinnamon notes. Aroma is pretty bland with some metallicy notes and smoke. Back to the drawing board Grays!

Pour is a dark brown with a small tan head. This is not a porter. I had to check the bottle to make sure it said porter on there and it sure does. Aroma is a decent sweet malt with a whiff of hops. Flavor is weak and watery with some sweet malt coming through. This beer was not listed here so i added it but this is not a porter by a long shot. A weak brown ale at best.

12oz bottle 7/20/09 (Siciliano’s Market-Grand Rapids)-Pours a dark amber with a small tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, slight chocolate, and sweetness. Taste of the same with a bit of hops and slight tartness. This light to medium bodied beer is not bad but does not fit a Porter in any way shape or form.