Otter Creek Stovepipe Porter

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Porter
Middlebury, Vermont USA

taste of smokey malts and earthy notes.light to medium body,brown to blackish red in color overall not my favorite porter but still a great american beer

From a 12 fl. oz (US) bottle coded 2/5/08LDT*2253. Pours brown with a short-lived beige head. A very small roasted smoky scent in the aroma but it is a decent one. The taste experience is more hoppy than roasted. Heavy mouth feel. Bold is a good word. The description says it has a slightly herbal aroma. I didn’t notice anythi ng herbal about my sample. It left a bit of an aftertaste.

Bottle. Translucent dark brown pour with a rocky light brown head. Herbal, slightly-sour aroma with burnt roast and a touch of choco. Dry, very roasted, burnt malt taste. Light bitterness and some more of that herbal sourness, though less than the nose suggested, and certainly not enough to imply a problem with the bottle. Overall, a rich, thick taste and a lasting, dry, bitter aftertaste. Slippery mouthfeel on a medium body swimming with malt. A very good coal porter!

Strong aroma of coffee and chocolate. Pours clear, black, with a minor fine head. moderate mouth feel with a strong coffee flavor. mild bitter aftertaste. Light on the tongue. Not bad.

12 ounce bottle from Glenville beverage. Pours dark brown almost black. Smells and tastes smokey. It was nice. Good mouthfeel, Ilike them more thick though. Anyway, I guess for what it was, the style, it did a good job.

bottle: pours a dark crimson brown with a small tan head. aroma is a very roasted chocolate, caramel and faint hops. the roast is very nice with just a touch of smoke. flavour is a chocolate, roasty coffee, caramel sweetness. finishes a littel on the sweet side with touches of hops and smoke.

Okay, this is my favorite style and this beer had the benefit of being tasted side by side with a sample of the upcoming Michelob Porter. Night and day. This has flavor, mouthfeel, bitterness, notes of hickory, burnt coffee, molasses, dark chocolate. The Michelob had nothing.

Pours almost opaque with a dissipating head. The aroma is something else. Sometimes, it has a very pleasant roasty, burnt malt aroma. Sometimes, I smell it again, and I just get the aroma of a porta-potty. It’s really odd. The flavor is like an off-shoot of watered down poop that sometimes comes out a little sweet. The mouthfeel is watery thin. This beer kind of makes me sad. It’s like the Poo-Pipe Porter.