Lost Coast Double Java Porter

Brewed by Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
Style: Porter
Eureka, California USA

On tap at Lucky Baldwin’s Delirium Cafe, November 2007: Pours a mostly opaque dark mahogany with a spotty-lacing light tan head. Aroma of sweet dark caramel and chocolate malts with a hint of raisins. Body starts fairly full and sweet with some sticky milk chocolate flavor and a more bitter and earthy roasty dark malt finish. A pretty good imperial porter.

Draft at Redlight. Dark mahogany body that lets a little light through. There’s a creamy tan head that leaves behind a microfilm sheet of lacing. The aroma is somewhat muted, though fresh roasted coffee beans, dark chocolate malts, and traces of dark fruits are all detectable. The flavor shows rich roasted coffee, sweet dark chocolate, cream, and perhaps a bit of oak. A medium-full body adds to a milkshake like feel. Smooth as silk. Not particularly complex or groundbreaking, but well made and very drinkable. Would make for a great session porter. Considerably better than the regular LC Double Porter.

Roasty, bitter chocolate, hints of coffee and vanilla, very nice aroma. Pours dark brown reddish on the sides with a thick tan head. Very smooth and sweet, roasted malts, bitter chocolate, with sweet vanilla and coffee flavors. The coffee flavor is good but not overpowering, hints of coffee grounds and sweet cafe au lait flavors. Very easy to drink as are all the Lost Coast beers.

On tap at Redlight.Pours black with barely any head.The nose is of fresh ground coffee.Coffee and chocolate, a typical porter, good but not great.Finish had some coffee bitterness.

Huge thanks to Brent (Redlight) for sending this over via Solan. Rich coffee/chocolate aroma with a good whiff of roasted malt. Dark brown with a firm tan head. The fore is coffee, cream, vanilla and chocolate with a roast bitter finish. Better than the double porter. Fairly enjoyable quaffer.

Draft at Redlight. Poured a charred, deeply hued brown. Light head rapidly vanished. Aroma is light coffee and chocolate, maybe even a touch of vanilla and coffee liquer. Flavor is a balancing act between sweet coffee, like the coffee you get in a Vietnamese restaurant, and the roasted malts. Palate is a touch thin.

Thanks to SoLan for bringing the growler and Brent for filling it up! Pours black, with a small off white head. Smells of big coffee grounds, mild chocolate, and dark maltiness. The coffee was ever so dominant though. The flavor seemed like they just took the regular double porter and threwsome coffee into it. nothing really complex about it at all, just had a coffee flavor. Needed more body to really pull it off in my opinion. Not horrible, but not great.

On tap. Very dark brown color with a thin light tan head. Very light coffee aroma coupled with roast. Somewhat light palate. The taste has a thin molasses sweetness that is stronger than any roastiness. A little bit of roast and syrupy coffee in the finish. Neither coffee nor any roast really stands out.