Mill Street Coffee Porter

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

(341 ml bottle: Obtained Feb ’05 in trade with radiomgb, thanks Jeff!) A well-aged one here! Very aromatic notes of roasted coffee, chocolate, spicy green pepper in the nose, so we’re off to a good start. More roast and coffee in the flavor and hints of chocolate in the finish. Bitterness is quite strong but not overbearing, and sweetness is kept to a minimum. I’m still reminded of green peppers toward the finish, something that is common for me with coffee beers (and some Cabernet Sauvignon). Body is medium with a clean, dry palate, a lasting bitter aftertaste, and a moderately carbonated mouthfeel. Dark brown with ruddy highlights at the edges. Tall, fluffy, tan head slowly settles to a quarter-inch layer. Pretty solid beer all-around, and this separates itself from other coffee beers because there’s more to it than just slamming you with coffee.

Darkest brown w/ brown head. Big coffee aroma with some smoke and milk. Rather thin in body. Weak flavors that, while good, don’t meet the anticipation created by the aroma. Could be beefed up for a richer experience.

Really nice look and smell. Deep deep crimson colour with a very thick foamy head that lasts and lasts. Coffee and smoked scent. The smoked scent reminding me of a smoked BBQ smell. Really intense taste of fresh groud coffe or chocolat covered beans. The most coffee tasting beer I have ever had. It’s actually a bit overpowering. This is a beer for java drinkers. It has fairly high carbonation and the aftertaste is of dark choclat that brought to mind Coffee Crisp.

Bottle. Appearance: dark brown with foamy tan head. Aroma: Strong coffee, some roasted malt, chocolate. Flavor: coffee, chocolate. Thank Harry.

Pours nearly black with reddish highlights and a thin tan coloured head leaves a nice lace on the glass. Strong coffee aroma with some roasted malt hiding behind it.The flavour is dominated by coffee with some cigarette tobacco also noted, a bit of fruitiness in the retro-nasal. A tasty porter, but then again coffee is my second favorite drink so I may be biased

Thanks to Secret Santa Jimmack for this one! Pours a very deep brown ruby, slight haze in suspension, good head. Light coffee aroma. Full bodied, tasty chocolate porter flavors with perfectly balanced coffee flavor. Not the burnt espresso flavor you often run into in a coffee beer, this was more of a full bodied Kenyan AA. Nice, tasty stuff. Texture bordered on oily, somehow almost too full bodied without being heavy. Odd palate, but didn’t really detract.

2005 bottle from tiggmtl consumed on 12/15/2005.
An initially deep brown-black pour, which settles out to be a ruby-crimson tinged deep-mahogany body, with a light tan head, large, and receding, slowly to cover, with no lacing. Mostly clear. Aroma has a soothing, clear shot of a mocha latte. Clean and quite strong, without an intense bitterness or damp/composty note. Light vanilla touches and hints of light chocolate linger in the background, no hop apparency or yeast apparency that I can find. More or less a sweet, creamy malt and coffee aroma. The flavor is coffee up front, dark and flavorful, but not bitter and overly roasty. Through the middle there are notes of chocolate, toffee and light roast. As it begins to finish, a slightly muddled, composty/beany, old-coffee flavor takes hold. Some light astringency grows and it gets quite dry and almost bready. Peanut skins, nuts, light roast and more dry coffee beans on the finish. The body is medium, without any significant wateriness. Carbonation is low at this point, but the texture is slick and oily, gliding down the throat effortlessly and leaving vanilla, chocolate and espresso behind. A bit lacking on the beer qualities overall. It’s not that the coffee is overdone, the beer aspects (hops, yeast, malt complexity) are just underdone.

A brown beer with a small brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of chocolate combined with hints of roasted malt. The flavor is very light with notes of chocolate, and the mouthfeel is very carbonated and the body thin.