Iron Hill Bourbon Porter

Brewed by Iron Hill Newark
Style: Porter
Newark, Delaware USA

Nitro Draft @ IH West Chester, 7/6/07. Poured deep brown, with s small tan head. Aroma of wood, bourbon, caramel and vanilla. Chocolate malt flavor, with toffee, oak, smoke, and bourbon, with some peat in the finish. Smooth and tasty.

Bottle. Sampled @ BCTC 2007 at RateBeer tent. Pitch black -brown coloring. Sharp, fudgy-maltiness (if that’s an adjective) that catches my nose and attention from the beginning. Flavoring punctuated by whiskey highlights and a wooden residual, like licking the cork on a JD bottle. For those that love Jack and beer, this is a smooth and even combination, neither side overpowering the other. Not for me - I winced at every sip thinking someone spiked my good ole’ porter.

Nitro @ West Chester. Dark brown with a medium tan-ish head. Nice roasty malt aroma with some wood, bourbon, vanilla, and a slight nutty hint. Flavor is a subdued, malty mix of oak, bourbon, vanilla, and just enough malty sweetness. Not over the top, but a tad better than the standard Pig Iron Porter. Tasty, with a nice bourbony tongue sting that lingers a bit.

Nitro, Pours dark with a small compact tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roast, bourbon, and vanilla. The flavor is chocolate, wood, sweet, with a nice bourbon alcohol kick. Good brew.

Poured from a nitro tap. A rather strong porter which distinctively yields bitter chocolate and roasted malt flavor. Head was light brown and short - less that quarter inch. Seemed flat, but tasteful and finished well -- leaving a crisp and not too sweet aftertaste.

GABF 2006. Pours to a dark mahogany body with a dense tan head. The aroma is bakers chocolate, nice balanced oaky bourbon notes. The flavor is rich with mellowed chocolate and balanced bourbon. Nice flat feel brings this brew together.

Poured a dark brown color nitogen head. Aroma was very vanilla and bourbon. Flavor was bourbon chocolate/nutty. Served to cold, as it warm could taste the wood. Not a bad beer not the best.

Pretty beer, deep brown color, tan thick nitrogen generated head, very long lasting coating/lacing along the glass as the beer was consumed. The aroma was initially bourbon and vanilla over top of lightly roasted type malts that were hard to pick up under nitrogen. The flavor was initially not too overwhelming, but bourbon featured along with chocolate, molasses, and even some nuts. Mouhtfeel was not as dry as the regular porter and was slightly acidic and astringent. With increased temperature, the wood elements started to show up, but the bourbon took over along with some maple flavors, leaving much to be desired in this one, somewhat cloying and sickly, not easy to finish at that point. There are better base beers to bourbon age, and I didn’t think this worked out too well.