Lake Louie Tommys Porter

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

Super dark brown with a sliver of amber at the bottom. Black in most light. Tall, dense cap of tanned froth bubbles up with verve. Slowly fades to keep one impressive amount always present. Tons of lace in thick cob-webby curtains draping across the glass. Great looking porter! Aroma is of mild powdery milk chocolate with an airy charred wood hint thats slimmingly earthy and just a touch of roasted coffee. Taste is quite nice. Lengthy middle and finish. Front is fluffy and cocoa powdered. Middle gains girth with some mild, easy roasted parts, more cocoa, and a bit of tender waxyness wrapping up the chocolate tones as it finishes dry and coffeeish with a tang of broad and darkly set roastyness. Kinda creamy in a few areas around the edges, a nice little balance to keep the roast, tang, burntness, and chocolate from going places it shouldn’t. Feel is unique as it tends to start kinda big, but mellows off nicely with a wetter, creamier side to its bold richness. Great simple texture with a full washy fluffyness. Mild, yet eager finish with a lasting recall of cocoa, roast, and creamy smooth malts. Wow, this stuff is fun to drink. The perfect porter. Rich, creamy, bold, lasting, flavorful - damn fine stuff. Drinkable, and then some.

Thick chocolate, coffee and toffee aroma and flavors. Light hop bite in the finish really evens this out. Silky smooth, slightly creamy mouthfeel. Very good.

Thanks to stonecrusher for the trade... Appears black with brown edges. A 2 finger tan head slowly fades out into a small collar. Plenty of streaky lacing and film is left around the glass. Smell is of creamy, sweet cocoa, and a dusting of coffee and mild roasted malt. Taste is the same great aromas but it actually surprised me a little bit and is a really nice tasting porter. Mouthfeel is super smooth despite it’s roasty, rich characteristics. Sweet chocolate and roasted malt stick to the tongue. You really can’t do much better.

On tap at Old Chicago in Madison. Big tan head. Medium to full body. Rich chocolate with lesser coffee note. Dark berries give the dry bitter chocolate a tart, sour edge. Not sweet or syrupy or sticky at all. Maybe a touch of vanilla. I tired a single bottle at room temperature and you really catch the tart berries at the tip of your toungue the moment it touches your mouth. Great.

12 oz from The_Enemy, consumed on 6/8/06. Deep mahogany colored body shows light filtration, some sediment on the bottom. Brass and rust tones swirl about on the edges, as the small deep beige head slowly recedes to cover and ring, with little to no lacing. Smells like an American brewpub porter in the nose. Light vanilla and char, with that dullness from the heavy roast. Very light chocolate and just a hint of tobacco. Very weak aroma, strengthwise, but with perceptible quality. Flavor is dull black malt, which I’m pretty sure I hate. Definite char and oily fish from the black malt and crunchy coffee from the roasted barley. Some sweet base malts add sugars the combine to produce a happy medium of choco-caramel sweetness, but a strong black ashiness also sits on the end. A dull, yeasty, almost vanilla-creme-like milkiness stops the aftertaste from lingering. Too much dead malt and a bit watery, though no alcohol noted. Carbonation is low to moderate, with medium-sized, unremarkable bubbles.

12oz bottle shared blindly by ClarkVV. Pours a black color with a small off white head. Nose is chocolate with some dates and raisins and other dark fruit notes. Palate is lightly tingly and a little watery. Flavors of chocolate, the dark fruits, some light sweetness and hints of coffee.

12oz bottle, no date. Pours a dark, dark brown with a ring of beige head. Aroma of coffee, roasted malts, black licorice, chocolate, and some faint brown sugar. Taste follows the aroma, though not very sweet. A tinge of tartness midway though, which follows to a dry, slightly bitter finish from the roasted malts. Kinda watery, but all in all good.

poured a very dark brown color with a small tan head. The aroma was of roasted malt and coffee grind with sugar. Roasted malt flavor. just south of being tart black coffee. That flavor storng roasted coffee can have when black and as it cools.