Hood Canal Southpoint Porter

Brewed by Hood Canal Brewery
Style: Porter
Kingston, Washington USA

pours a dark brown with a red tint, small tan bubbly head, and some lacing. smell is faint, some cocoa, some coffee, a hint of roasted nuts, some malt in the back. taste is watery, sour malt, light cocoa, weak coffee, not much of an ending, very thin, and not much of a taste.

On tap a the the brewery in Kingston, WA--Poured a very light brown body with a practically non-existent head. Nose of malty. ruddy, infected nose. This brewer needs to get it together.

Bomber. I previously tried the Hood Canal Stout, and it was infected. Looking at the other comments here, it looks like their porter has the same problem. It has been a month since the last rating, and the last report of infection. Maybe I got a newer batch? I pour a tall glass with some trepidation. Is the huge tan head despite the infection? Because of the infection? The first taste? It’s also the last taste - IT"S STILL INFECTED. Can this brewery pull it together and actually bottle a decent beer?

Bomber. Pours nearly jet black with a thick, sedimentary tan head of suds and mousse. Really good looking beer. Nose of tart must, funk, foot, and horseblanket. Umm...that can’t be right. Oh, god. Could barely drink a sip. What a catastrophe. Utterly infected. Tastes like sucking on a dirty foot face down in a mud puddle in a game preserve. And I’ve had good beer from these guys on draft before, trying to say something nice here. It, ah, looked tasty. Just confirming the infection issues I guess...kind of been a while since they were last noted, too.

Same problem as DarkElf....also bought recently at Bottleworks. I was looking forward to this too. Tastes kind of like.....chocolate soda from a baby’s diaper. WIll re-rate some other day.

(22 oz bottle: $3.29 at Bottleworks in Seattle, WA) I’m really getting tired of buying bottles of beer from the Pacific Northwest, only to have so many of them be infected as shit. This is a great area for beer, but half these places have no business bottling beer. This is my third bottle from Hood Canal, and all three have been infected, this one to the point of absolute undrinkability. And you can’t blame Bottleworks, this is on the brewery, plain and simple. Ultimately, of course, I’ll retry this and all the other Hood Canal beers, but until then, let this review serve as a warning to those who don’t feel like taking the risk.

22oz. bottle. Murky brown-black with a small tan head. Chalky chocolate aroma with heavy sweet malt underpinning. Candy anise twang, some dark toastiness. Some roastiness and faint astringency in the finish. Mouthfeel is light medium, somewhat dry.

22oz bottle via trade from Indiana_Red - Thanks Ken! - This was the fullest bottle of beer I’ve ever seen it was beer all the way up to the cap actually. Poured very dark brown with a short creamy tan head that stays pretty well and laces the sides of the english pint. Aroma is somewhat on the hoppy side with a little roasted and chocolate notes but mostly hops and a little cola. Flavor is quite roasty, chocolate, a touch of coffee definite smoke flavor and some roasted nuts. I thought the flavor to be pretty solid on this one and I’m a little surprised actually by the low ratings. Palate is a bit to the thin side and the flavor is not quite as robust as other porters I’ve had but this is a pretty solid beer. A touch sour on the finish but not unpleasant. I found this very drinkable and definitely better than it’s 2.8 average.