 IrishBoy (2685), Bakersfield, California, USA
May 12, 2007 Bottle from Liquid Solutions;Nose of chocolate, light mocha, and some hops; dark brown with a small tan head and lots of bubbles in the liquid on the sides of the glass; flavor of hop bitterness, coffee, and toastiness; body is light medium with a nice bitter hop finish. Very good hoppy Porter!
jimhilt (1663), Bow, New Hampshire, USA
May 11, 2007 Pours a three-finger brown head that fades slowly leaving some lace. Black as midnight. Slight hoppy nose. Light carbonation and heavy bodied. Flavor is roasted/bitter coffee with a slight smoky finish. $6.00 for a 500ml bottle from Tully’s Beer & Wine Wells, Me.
badlizard (2324), Berkeley, California, USA
May 4, 2007 Aroma of chocolate and fruit. Taste commensurate with aroma with dark malt sweetness and a dry sweet/sour finish.
bitbucket (2026), Kirkland, Washington, USA
May 3, 2007 Bottle, thanks to shigadeyo. This was a huge gusher, but what was left pours opaque blackish brown with a tan head. Aroma of coffee, nuts, vanilla. Medium-light body and moderate carbonation. Tastes of dark chocolate, nuts, vanilla, molasses and coffee. Bittersweet espresso and tobacco finish. Seems more like a dry stout than a porter.
ehhdayton (1113), USA
May 3, 2007 Pours a deep dark brown with a creamy tan head. Aroma is roasted coffee, fruit, and chocolate. Flavor is nice and smooth with a chocolate sweetness and roasted coffee finish.
luckygirl (1221), Boulder, Colorado, USA
May 2, 2007 Bottled. Beer is very dark warm brown, nearly opaque. Head is large, creamy, beige, frothy and diminishing. Seagulls on the snifter. The aroma is full, rich, strikes a nice balance between resinous hop and roasty malts. Malty with moderate-to-heavy notes of roasted grain, chocolate, moderate notes of molasses, coffee, light notes of toasted bread crust, creamy roasted nut butter; Moderate-to-heavy notes of resinious hop, lighter amounts of herb/thyme and grapefruit oil, traces of sweet tobacco; Light yeasty note of basement, trace of dough. Intermittent trace notes of woody vanilla, cola and tropical fruit. The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter, trace acidic with a longish, warm, lightly bittersweet finish. The body is full, the texture is velvety and the carbonation is lively. Luxe in every repect.
Ernest (4481), Boulder, Colorado, USA
May 2, 2007 Updated: Jan 22, 2009Bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, brown, mostly lasting. Body is black (not opaque), bottle conditioned. Aroma is moderately malty (roasted grain/nuts, chocolate, coffee), lightly hoppy (herbs, apricot). Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium to full body, creamy/velvety texture, lively/soft carbonation. Aroma is straightforward, but quite pleasant. Very nice flavor balance, apperance, and mouthfeel. Just a little short of world class, but still yummy.
Lowe1983 (1029), Fairborn, Ohio, USA
May 2, 2007 Pours a dark brown color with a brown head. Probably the darkest head I’ve seen on a porter. Aroma is rich of roasted malts, chocolate, slight coffee, molasses, and just a very slight hint of alcohol. Begins with a very strong roasted malt flavor with lots more coffee then the aroma led on to believe. The roasted flavors give way to the sweeter flavors of molasses and dark fruit. Has a pretty decent, slight bitterness on the finish that I was not expecting. A very delicious porter.
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