Mill Street Coffee Porter

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

(355ml bottle, stamped 6/22/05) Big beige head atop a dark brown body. Aroma is medium sweet, rich chococoffee. Taste is medium sweet, chococoffee. Watery light-medium body. Definitely improves when it warms, as the coffee becomes more pronounced and fuller. Strangely the coffee seems more stale at that point.

Pours a clear roasty dark brown with a thick frothy, and clumpy lacing tan head. Aroma has a subtle coffee and dark chocolate presence with a hint of bittering hops. Body is kinda thin for a porter and the malty sweetness gets covered a bit by the carbonation. Otherwise has a decent coffee balance and complexity.

Re-rate: goodly sample at brewery reveals an integrated, full, delicious brew without aforementioned acrid tendencies. Hmm! What we now witness is both showy and comforting. A Porter Toronto can be proud of, from a Brewer making marks on its way to its potential. Brand-new design bottle, very fresh. Pours a semi-opaque black with a beautiful tall dark beige head, with muted sour malt and bitter coffee aroma. Taste stale bad office coffee and tobbaco ash with a dry prickly tang on the tongue and palate - truly bizarre. Fizzy and acrid-smokey. Sour and oddly bitter. Jangly needles on the tongue and palate carry long in finish. I adore good coffee and porter, yet can’t fathom this beer from our historical Distillery area brewer. Small flourish of competent malty sweetness does nothing to balance out the harsh feel or shake my impression of a subpar flavored novelty beverage. Shows its best at a warmer temp. 4/4/2/1/10=2.1

Bottle courtesy of pintbypint. The body looks black, but shows a nice ruby color when held to light. The large head is tan. The aroma is rich chocolate and coffee. There also seems to be an oatmeal hint. The taste is coffee and a little hint of green beans. There is also a grassy note with some chocolate. If the mouthfeel was a tad smoother, this would be outstanding.

Dark ruby red color. Huge, absolutly massive thick creamy attractive head. Strong coffee aroma. Strong coffee tasting initially, but a clean finish. Nice smooth palate, but a little light. A hint of nasty cough syrup in the flavor as it warms.

This one poured with a huge head, but that’s probably largely because of letting it warm before opening. The body is a dark mahogany brown in which the hazyness makes it opaque combined with the darkness. The flavor continues with roasty notes, but the coffee drops out and what remains of the coffee seems a little stale. Overall, a decent porter perked up a little by the coffee.

First off, I think this bottle is awesome! It makes for a vigorous pour. Dark garnet pour, brownish black to the eye. Fluffy, off-white head. Mildly roasted aroma of coffee and malts. The coffee comes alive in the flavor, nicely roasted, some vanilla, sweet malts, but well balanced with some bitterness. Very enjoyable! The best porter I have had in some time. Thanks to radiomgb for the sample.

Dark brown, almost black with a huge tan head that doesn’t go away. Aroma is almost all coffee with some dark roasted malt as well. Flavor was a nice balance between the coffee, roasted malts and a bit of vanilla. Somewhat bitter and lots of carbonation. I enjoyed this very much, especially since I didn’t know anything about the beer or company beforehand.