Oso Night Train Porter

Brewed by Oso Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Plover, Wisconsin USA

Aroma is of bakers chocolate, light hops, light coffee, and mild dark fruit. Taste is of bitter chocolate, hops, spent coffee ground and mild fruit flavor. Creamy mouthfeel and bittersweet finish. Not digging this one.

This is a straight on, just plain good ol’ beer. Served with an great light tan foamy frothy head that lasts a while and good lace. Color is an opaque dark brown. Aroma is rich, roasty, malty, earthy, some cocoa, a bit of coffee and a hint of beer bitterness. Flavor’s about the same but lots more of it. Great body and carbonation. Good finish although a bit boozy. Could be a slower session beer. Solid beer.

Black with dense tan head. Smokey, sour coffee ground aroma with hint of old grain bin. Taste leans towards sour, with a presentation that is a bit thin, and has a nice bitter finish.

pours dark brown like any good porter. nose is vanilla and cotton candy with slight molasses. taste is candy sugar sweetness and slight woody oak with a hint of vanilla. this is an excellent porter, certainly among one of my favorites.

Red-brown pour, open beige head, spotty lace. Nicely harmonized blend of chocolate and cherry aromas with a hint of underlying ash. Flavor built around a generous dosing of chocolate malts, red fruit flavors are up front and a strong second component. Overall sweet with just enough citric hops for balance. Medium to full body; bright, lively palate. An excellent porter.

Discount Liquor Milwaukee, WI. $8.49 6-pk. bottle 11/09. Aroma of a light blend of roasted coffee, milk chocolate notes. Taste sourness at first, followed by black licorice, slight smoke, and a slight bitterness. Very creamy on the palate, full body, nice creamy lace of foam around glass. I probably won’t buy again, but worth trying if you get a chance.

bottle from bockyhorsey consumed 8/17/2009. pours slightly darker than the typical porter ruby brown and is capped by a creamy tan head. random foamy spots of lace stick to the glass. it smells like a porter should... licorice, sweet fruit, coffee, roast, chocolate, caramel, wood and a slight lactic tartness. the flavor however, takes a weird turn... there is a rather high level of sourness throughout... it’s not completely off putting but it is distracting... notes behind the tart mask include yeast, woody earthiness, roast, sour milk, coffee, caramel coated toasted nuts and a slight bit of ash. there is a sharp mouth feel present from prickly abundant carbonation which makes the medium body unpleasant to drink. infected? odd since this would be from the same six pack nick and bill rated? 7/3/5/2/13/3.0

12 oz bottle courtesy of alagnak. Pour is brown black with a 1/2 inch tan head. Aroma of grain rye black bread maltiness. Touch of cream milkiness followed by roasted office coffee. There is some grassy tobacco in there too. Taste is flat off coffee and creamer. Mildly roasty, weird sweet milky sweet. Not all that much of my sort of thing. Palate is medium, above average carbonation. Aftertaste is the flat coffee - with some sweetness and the tobacco. Pretty dull overall. I have really enjoyed all of these O’so Beers Chris, thanks.