Great Divide St. Bridgets Porter (St. Brigids)

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Denver, Colorado USA

some dark coffee (not espresso just coffee), with some dark chocolate and figs with a little carmel and toffee. good drinks.

Bottle.

Pours a dark brown with red highlights when held to the light, with a modest light-tan head.

The aroma is coffee and roasted grain; the flavor is minimal in its vinous elements, a bit of choolate, rounded, slightly smoky, a tad salty, leading into a lackluster and slightly metallic finish. Gentle but not under- carbonation makes it extremely drinkable.

This isn’t a bad beer; it’s perfectly drinkable, but with great porters such as Anchor and Fullers so readily available, I don’t see quite why I would return to this one.

Pours a deep mahogany with a thin off-white head that showed decent retention and a hint of lacing. The aroma was nice on this beer with a really strong fresh ground coffee smell on top of the dark roasted malts. There is also chocolate hints in the nose as well. The taste let me down a little after the smell, with a slightly unpleasant bitterness that overpowers the underlying roasted malt and coffee tastes. The mouthfeel is decent and fairly dry with the aforementioned bitterness. This one smelled great and tasted OK. Not one of my favorites from Great Divide.

Not a bad porter. It has a lot of dark chocolate and coffee in the aroma, after it pours a dark black with a small off-white head. It is a bit watery, but definite chocolate, coffe, and some hops in the swallow and finish. It’s good, but not the best.

Bottle. Small off white head with dark brown color. Aroma is malty with roasty overtones. Flavor is a little stale, but has presence of chocolate and coffee. Finish is tad watery and dryer that I normally like.

Dark brown body with thin tan head. Aroma of roasted and burnt malts. Flavor of dark chocolate and smoke and notes of coffee. Slight bitter edge with dry finish. Somewhat thin with a fizzy mouthfeel.

12 oz bottle courtesy of Siciliano’s (Grand Rapids, MI). Pours a fairly transparent dark brown with some dark blood red notes, a big tannish head that eventually settles to a decent layer, laces a bit. Aromas are a bit floral and fruity at first, moving into a roasted malt and dark chocolate feel, however the darker fruits and floral hops definitely are present. Roasty barley, subtle coffee, and light cocoa. Initial is lighter bodied, a bit bitter and floral and very tobacco-like in my opinion. Good hopping for the style, a bit fruity, tobacco takes over the roast, a touch of chocolate, as tobacco and roasted coffee stay on the palate along with the hopping. Almost a menthol like feel to this beer, which is quite odd, but not necessarily bad. Roast and hops, a palatable beer, just different. Chocolate only starts to come out far into the back, still surrounded by hops, menthol tobacco, and light ashy smoke. I thought this was ok overall.

Robe noire surmontée d’une mousse brune épaisse qui persiste. Arômes de café et de torréfié. Saveurs de café, de caramel et de torréfié.