Mill Street Coffee Porter

Brewed by Mill St. Brewery
Style: Porter
Toronto, Canada

Bottled. Deep reddish ambery brown colour, with small brown head. Aroma is strong coffee, some vanilla and roasted malts. Flavour is coffee, some acific fruits, vanilla and smoked wood. Pleasant.

(Bottle, Stockholm Beer Festival, 22 Sep 2007) Black colour with brief brown head. Roasted nose with distinct notes of heavily roasted coffee. Roasted taste with coffee, chocolate and hints of sweetness. Fairly thin. A bit one-dimensional, but if you like your coffee roasted, it’s a nice beer.

Pours a beatiful dark brown, medium white head. Aroma is coffee dominant, which is no surprise. There are some matly aromas peeking through. Flavor is roasted coffee goodness, but the body is a touch too thin. Overall, a very nice beer.

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2007) Bottle. Black color, brown head. Milky chocolate aroma, coffe and some cocoa notes. Malty chocolater flavor, sourish and bitter notes. Sourish bitter finish.

12 oz bottle, via dsnowden. Pours a clear dark brown under a small fizzy brown head that faded to a partial covering. Very light and very fine visible carbonation. Aroma is a nice blend of coffee, chocolate malt, and roast. A little burnt malt, light hops, and touches of smoke and chalk. Where’s the coffee? The flavor has almost a light lactic sour note over the heavy roasted malt base. Pretty minimal coffee flavor for a coffee Porter. Light bitterness lends a slight astringency. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a somewhat watery texture and moderate fizzy forced carbonation. Overall, I was pretty disappointed for a proclaimed coffee beer. This isn’t even that great of a Porter either.

Pours almost completely opaque black -- possibly a slight brown hue to it. The aroma is all coffee and chocolate. The flavour is much akin to iced coffee -- however, some malt and hops flesh out the flavour and body much more than what could be expected of iced coffee. A tad of bitterness. Quite good... almost more like a stout-flavoured coffee. I’m going to add some milk to the rest of my glass to see what happens. //Update: Adding milk was a distinctly gross idea.

An easy drinking porter. I love coffee so for me the coffee is subtle, the taste is great though. I wish it had a little more body. Not bitter at all, very smooth.

Made with Balzac’s coffee (also situated in the distillery district). Very dark body with a muddied cream head. As expected, it packs a strong coffee taste - perhaps a little too strong. Nice bitterness.