Lake Louie Dinos Dark

Brewed by Lake Louie Brewing
Style: Porter
Arena, Wisconsin USA

12oz. Bottle $8.29 6-Pack Steve’s Liquor Madison Dino’s Dark poured garnet with big deep mahogany highlights. A half finger creamy beige head formed on the pour that settled to a thin skim of foam up top. When not held away from the light this beer is as black as night. Leaves patchy lacing after each sip. Looks good. As I inhale this beer I get a nose full of sweet lightly roasted malts. The roasted malts are the main aroma but there is a very nice compliment of toffee and freshly ground coffee aromas that creep through. There’s even some dark fruit involved here in the form of plum and fig. Mild floral hop scent on the backend. Roasted malts upfront in the flavor as well. Much like the aroma there is a solid toffee sweetness that comes through mid-palate and sticks around through the finish. Mild coffee shows up on the finish. Flavors meld together very subtly to make a very enjoyable brew. Mild floral hop bite on the finish. Very nice. Medium bodied with minimal carbonation lets this beer woirks it’s way through slowly. Smooth and creamy. Small hop bitterness on the finish, very small. This is definately an easy beer to put away. Good sipper with subtle enough flavors to keep me wanting more. My first offering from Lake Louie and it’s definately a good one. Very solid porter with some minor stout like tendancies. Pick it up if you see it. 4/29/07

Bottle thanks to iowaherkeye: Brown in color with a huge off white head. Aroma, caramel, slightly fruity, some resin. Flavor, lightly malty, caramel, kinda sweet, medium bodied. I didn’t get a whole lot out of it. Didn’t hate it, but just couldn’t get into it.

Pours to a dark garnet body with a lasting fluffy brown head that leaves gorgeous lacing. The aroma is like my mom’s chocolate revel bars. Oatmeal, chocolate fudge, sweetened condensed milk, caramel. There’s also some nice espresso roast in this. The taste is a dry woody oatmeal, dry roast char, green coffee berries, sweet hops. This is one of the better porters I’ve ever had. Definitely should have bought more than one bottle. Darn... this is a great treat! Excellent mouthfeel. Fits very well with this brew. Perhaps "a touch light", but it works. Extremely easy to drink.

Pours a ruby brown with a small brown head. Aroma of coffee, milk chocolate, dirt, condensed milk, some nuttiness along with some roasted malts. Smells quite good. Tastes quite sweet with a bitter roasted malt finish. Taste has a little cereal in there, too. Lighter bodied than some, but not quite thin.

Bottled. Poured a deeper reddish-brown with a tall, lively cap of creamy beige head. Lovely hopped up aroma... pine, earth, and grassy notes on top of deeply-roasted cocoa and coffee. Flavor picked up about the same stuff.. body was fairly light and certainly refreshing. Cocoa was damn near burnt and a bit grainy on the palate. Hopped up cocoa finish. Really a solid effort that I could drink a whole bunch of.

12 oz bottle. Deep brown in color with a nice lacing. Fresh hoppy aroma. Earthy and grassy notes. Roasty malty and hoppy flavor. Thin bodied. Finish is hoppy. Ok.

12 oz bottle. Brown pour with a nice sized tan head that collapses quickly. Aroma is fresh, grassy hops along with burnt cocoa. Body is on the lighter side that makes me think the abv is about 6%. Hops are the star of the beer with the cocoa flavors and roastiness off just a bit. Interesting to say the least.

12oz bottle.
Pours a dark ruby-brown-black with a medium root-beer-like head that soon deflates and leaves almost no lacing. Aroma is nutty, roasty, some coffee bitter, medium hop bitterness and a tiny bit of dried fruit. Flavor has some malty caramel up front that is quickly followed by medium-roasted grain and a medium hop bitterness. Medium-thin, slightly gritty palate. Solid, but I actually prefer their standard Tommy’s Porter.