 joekfsu (118), Boardman, Ohio, USA
Apr 29, 2008
12 oz bottle. Pours very dark, looks black til you hold it up to the light and see some hints of ruby, 2 cm of a light tan head that is slowly diminishing. Aroma is malty, bitter chocolate, dark fruits, and some coffee as it warms. Initial flavor is sweet chocolate and coffee. Flavor ends similarly, but with some malts and hops to complicate the flavor, let leaving it balanced. Some lacing, limited carbonation, medium body, and limited alcohol presence. Overall a drinkable beer and the best regular octane beer that Great Lakes puts out.
saber2th (7), Harrison Township, Michigan, USA
does not count  Aug 25, 2008 12 oz. bottle. Just a very solid porter! Good color, nice brown head and full of flavor!
brewandbbq (228), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Aug 22, 2008 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.
jimmay (13), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Aug 18, 2008 Bottle. Pours very dark, not black. Brown head, condenses to very fine head. Fairly carbonated. Smokey, a little bit of chocolate. Mildly hopped.
PolakPorter (60), Chicago, Illinois, USA
Aug 15, 2008 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.
AskForJenny (430), Ontario, New York, USA
Aug 12, 2008 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.
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