Northwoods Poplar Porter

Brewed by Northwoods Brew Pub
Style: Porter
Eau Claire, Wisconsin USA

Nice Porter. Pours black with a small diminishing head. Aroma of cocoa and light espresso. Flavour is chocolate but rather thin. Nice smooth creamy finish.

From the Jug at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 10/10/2008 Vanilla aroma. Dark coloured and fruity with some alcohol present. A little dryness in a crisp slight roast finish.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a small head. Notes of bitter coffee, milk chocolate. Flavor was much the same. A nice bittersweet coffee porter. Kind of surprised by the bad reviews

Chestnut to mahogany color with a small light tan head. Light roasted malt aromas with a hint of smoke. Dark chocolate. light roasted malt and peat. Fairly simple, but OK.

dark brown white well laced head. Light roasty aroma hints of chocolate. Smooth palate good coating. Flavor is roasted malt and grain some light bitter chocolates.. an ok porter.

GABF. Dark pour. Aromas were a little watered down. Some roastiness on the flavor, but not much else. Just OKAY

Dark brown, transparent at the bottom, with little head, swiftly degenerating into a sad, bubbling ring of faint cola-ish carbonation. Aroma: roasty and bitter, notes of cocoa and coffee, ...not bad. Taste: Far too faint in the mouthfeel to really count as a porter, this enters the mouth limply, and exits just as weak. Trickles of dark, chocolatey flavors, waft over the palate, then drip away. Doesn’t really make much of an impression anywhere. Really needs to have bigger body to be a porter worth it’s roasted barley, and this ain’t working. No chewiness, no girth. But, I suspect this brewery was built around low expectations and pleasing the common denominator above all else. Oh, well...I’ll give this half-credit for at least coming close to being a good porter, without becoming a total abomination. And must say I’ve noticed that the darker beers of this breweries bottling are the least offensive, and the closest to their marks. More in the brew to hide the flaws?

Bottle poured to glass. Average head atopa a black,brown brew. Mellow aroma of molasses and moderate grassy smell. Tastes almost a sweet, burnt from the start with a moderate balance of hops bitter to finish it off.