Great Divide St. Bridgets Porter (St. Brigids)

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

Pretty standard issue stuff here. Good, but nothing to brag about. Standard porter taste meaing coffee, chocolate, roasted malt, but with much more molasses.

After a long rough day at the office, I came home to this brew. This was the first brew of the evening. Upon pouring it into my glass I notice a very small head from a very dark, but not opaque, brown color. It had a very nice strong malty odor. The initial taste hinted of carbonation but later died out. It had a mild initial malty taste that later came on a bit, but not much, stronger. The coffee flavor from this brew was not overpowering as in some I have tasted. I only felt a small feeling from the alcohol in the brew. It was not very strong, but rather on the mild side. I was not disappointed in my first brew of the evening. Cool, but what’s next? GF does not like the taste of coffee beers so she only took a taste of it, but said that it was milder in its coffee taste then some of the other brews she had tasted. Over all she gave it a 2 because of the coffee flavor. 8-5-8-5-16 2004: bottle rereate: taste was much worse than before way over carbonated and very tingly and gassy still an excellent aroma but the flavor just did not do the aroma justice 9-5-5-2-9

Dark brown with reddish highlights that produces a creamy off-white head and excellent lace. The aroma hints of burnt caramel malts, mocha, coffee, aromatic hops, grapefruit and apple. The taste starts surprising hoppy and bitter with a nice grapefruity twang added in. The roasted flavors are more centered in this beer, lots of mocha, smoky and coffee notes. The finish displays a bitter character. This thin to medium-bodied brew had a dry and lively mouthfeel. A good porter was an fruity and hoppy twist. Enjoyable. Thanks Tannertavern for the brew.

Very dark brown with a red hue. Frothy, big beige head. The aroma is roast, I sense more caramel than the coffee and chocolate the brewery describes though. Perhaps a little wood, a little licorice. Also some American hops poking through the darkness. Flavour is dry, quite hoppy and the roastiness is indeed more like ash than the classic charcoal. Nice and lasting roast and slightly smoked aftertaste.

Very dark for a porter, black. Head is loose and sparse with white colored bubbles. Smell is toffee, chocolate, roasted hops. Taste is good and hoppy with a creamy, milk-chocolate base. Smooth with bright hop flavors dancing atop with roastedness and nuttiness. good beer.

Dark brown color, beneath a big, frothy head, which crackles and snaps. Go ahead and put it up to your ear! Aroma: essence of espresso and chocolate and some smooth spiciness. Taste: very smooth, very mellow, a lasting finish, and an abiding cocoa flavor. Carbonation’s higher than I like. A good porter, but could be better.

Bottle: Dark brown, nearly black, large beige head, frothy, sticky lacing.   Cocoa nose, soft malt & hop aroma.   Bittersweet front, somewhat thin, picking up burnt malts at the back.   Soft dark chocolate background throughout.   Coffeeish finish, bitter, but somewhat thin.   Fairly good, but light.   Thanks Bill!

09.30.05 From 12oz bottle at brewery. Mahogany colored with fading tan head. Mineral aroma, choco malts. Flavor is mildly filled with tobacco, cocoa, and dry chocolate. Pretty standard stuff. Dry.