Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter

12 oz. bottle. Just a very solid porter! Good color, nice brown head and full of flavor!

Pours dark mahogany with amber hues on the edges. A half-inch head of beige had moderate retention and smears of lacework lasted throughout. Roasted coffee, dark malts, caramel, nougat, and oreo shells fill the nose. Very clean and balanced, with a high level of complexity for a porter. Fullish bodied, shy of thick. A happy medium between chewy and ordinary. Creamy. Roasted malt, coffee, bitter chocolate, and an underlying fruit note lead off the pallet. A firm, drying bitterness follows through along with brownie bits and biscuits. Finishes with lingering bitter chocolate, and fading cookie crumbs. Nice job on this one, very quaffable without being boring.

Bottle. Pours very dark, not black. Brown head, condenses to very fine head. Fairly carbonated. Smokey, a little bit of chocolate. Mildly hopped.

12oz with the Flying Burrito Brothers playing (Gordon Lightfoot kind of sucks). Chocolate coffee...normally two flavors that I could live without. When combined in the form of ale, we get the Edmund Fitz Porter. While not as crisp as some Brit porters, or as big and heavy as American porters, it finds a nice centerqueef. Overall, very tasty, well-rounded and complex and incredibly easy to drink. Meow. Even tastes good on a hot summer night, just feeding the ol spider, makin that sucker grow. Tonight a grasshopper, tomorrow a centipede. Life is good.

12oz With Gordon Lightfoot playing in the background - Black liquid under light brown head. Chocolate malt to beat the band. Bitter chocolate on the front, fading to malt then a brush of bitter hops. Really well built and well thought out.