Legend Chocolate Porter

Bottle shared with the guys at the Barrios’ 500th Swallow Tasting. Most likely infected. Sour coffee, and cocoa. Gonna have to give this another try. Definetly doesn’t travel well.

Pours a fizzy, tan head with a dark brown body. Smells of chocolate, roasted malts, and alcohol. Flavor is i cannot even write it. Don’t want to taste it anymore. Infected. Sour. Chocolate and coffee, but I can’t drink this sour swill.

Bottle shared by cdog69 on 2/1/08: Pours an opaque with a small creamy dark tan head. Aroma of rich milk chocolate and butterscotch with some cocoa powder and paper. Starts oily and semi-sweet with some milk chocolate and earthy cocoa powder with plenty of diacetyl. Drier finish has some roasted notes. If they could clean up the diacetyl this would be quite nice.

22oz bottle-pours a rich cascading to rocky brown head and black color. Aroma is earthy, chocolate-dark malt. Taste is earthy hops first then chocolate/molasses/anise-dark malt/oat, ashy, and something medicinal-like.

Bottle from Squires. Pours deep blackish with 2-finger off-tan head. Nose is dark malt, cacao, hops, earthy peaty fruit. Tastes rich chocolatey at first, with a lot of dark malt, sopme earthy notes, and some root cellary mushroomy notes. Palate is rich and complex, but gets lighter late, and this one falls apart a bit, becoming soy saucy and sour. Not sure if this was a bad bottle or intended to be tart like this, but I agree with Kramer that the more i drank it, the less I liked it. Give the first pour a 3.8 and the repour a 2.6. Oh, and yes, i will rerate this with a fresh bottle, perhaps as early as later this evening. Stay tuned, same ratebeer time, same ratebeer channel.

22 oz bottle, via whaleman. Pours a very dark brown body with a one finger fizzy brown head that retained as a thin covering. There’s lotsa chocolate here, but it’s a very bitter natural bakers chocolate type that went to more of a Hershey’s syrup type as it warmed. Some roast, moderate hops, and light coffee. Nice roasty chocolaty Porter flavor that’s not totally dominated by the chocolate up front, but the sweetness and cocoa do get a bit much toward the back end. This could use a bit more hops on the back end to make it a bit snappier in my opinion. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a bit of a clingy sweetness on the finish. This was OK, but I think that I prefer Legend’s regular Porter more than this. The more I drank, the less I liked it.

(Sample Date: 1/21/2009 Source:Legend Brewery) Pint at Brewery. Roasty chocolate malt nose with some spicy yeast character. Black with small tan head. Roasty chocolate flavor with some molasses and dark fruit notes. Medium body and mouthfeel. Dry bitter slightly astringent finish.

Poured a clear almost opaque brown color with a small tan head. The aroma was very chalky with dark cocoa notes and a mild tartness. Dark bitter chocolate and cocoa flavor. Medium bodied.