John Sleeman Presents Fine Porter

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: Porter
Guelph, Canada

Single 11.5 oz bottle from Total Wine here in Jacksonville, FL, labeled Sleeman Porter 68*. Pours a murky brown with a slight tan head. Aroma is slighty malty. Taste is roasted malts and rather robust. Interesting.

Not too bad. Aroma of dark malt and a little bit of coffe. Pour was a dark brown with a thin tan ring for a head. Taste was bitter dark malt with a wet aftertaste. There were some hops in the aftertaste...more so than any porter of recent memory. Nice burnt taste but a little weak.

Beautiful brown bottle, quite interesting and unique. First aroma is a bit stale and off, but in a nice way. Clear rootbeer appearance. No head. Roasted campfire hints on the first taste. A little charcoal bitterness follows on the taste buds. Stans up to the other medium alky porters with relative ease. Mild carbonation. Not bad for a dark beer. there is a mild to medium bitterness that builds on the back of the throat during the session. This results in a finish that has a mild to medium feel of burnt meat from the grill on the back of your throat. Not bad overall.

Not bad at all, and actually pretty good. From the bottle in a shaker, watching the Packers beat SD. Nice dark pour, with a thin tan head. "Bold malty taste" is right -- surprising me with its taste for a non-specialist brewery. Good got better as it warmed a little.

341mL bottle: Thin tan, bubbly head on a clear, dark flat body. Aroma is definitely not offensive but doesn’t stand out. The flavor is true to its commercial description: Caramel, roasted malts and barley with chocolatey notes offset by hop bitterness. Palate is a little too effervescent for my notion of a fine porter. Overall, this is a good porter.

12oz bottle. light chocolate color with a frothy off-white head. lots of grains in the nose with a distinct european aroma that doesn’t seem appropriate for this style. a little sweetnees comes through as well. starts off with a pretty robust with a touch of cherry fruit. mid palate is chocolaty and the finish is solid overall. the best of these sleeman beers.

pours a dark brown with just a hint of red, thick mountainy head that is a tanish in color. smell is of toasted nuts and malt, grain, and malt. taste is different, bitter, metalic, a little tangy, leaves the mouth dry, in the end some fruit notes and coffee. not that bad of a beer, not as cocoa as i would have expected, and just a bit watery.

slight roasted malt, smokey aroma. body is VERY thin. Flavour is slightly roasty, and a bit fruity. Not a bad porter, a good beginners porter. Definitely made for the masses.