Otter Creek Stovepipe Porter

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

Pours pitch black with a decent tan head and a licorice aroma. The flavor is treacle and roasted malt with a bit of coffee. The taste is slightly thin, but otherwise a pretty good brew.

Amber black with a cm of tan head and strong lacing. Aroma is sweet and minimally roasty with a bit of DMS. Roasty coffee taste with carbonation evident and some bitterness, acridness and astringency in the finish. $2/12oz

This is my first rating from Otter Creek, and it made a good impression. Sweet malt and coffee aroma. A bit of floral sweetness and herbs. Black and headless pour. Impressive fresh porter flavor (no preservatives). Coffee, woodsmoke, cola, and some astringent iron flavor too. A very solid porter - I don’t know what it is about porters - I usually like them a lot, and yet I rarely score them as high as the better Belgians, IPAs, and stouts. Probably they usually aren’t rich enough to be 4 pointers.

A dark brown to black beer with a fast disappearing head. The aroma is fruity roastedness & somewhat hoppy. The taste was fruity maybe some roasted flavors but this is hopped a little more than your average porters, & fruitier than I would expect.

Nearly black with reddish highlights. There is a fairly thin light brown head that leaves a bit of lacing. Nice aroma of coffee, dark chocolate, and malt. Medium-bodied with decent carbonation. Surprisingly complex flavor. Starts with the expected malty sweetness of caramel, chocolate, and sugared coffee. A nice punch of bitterness at the end reminiscent of old coffee. Good beer!

Dark rich color with a good full aroma of roasted malt. Nice even flavor with a lighter body than a lot of porters. Hints of caramel on the aftertaste, but otherwise finishes fairly clean.

Bottled. Pours out in a dark brown colour with a low fluffy off-white head. Roasted almost burnt aroma of nut-shells, dark chocolate and coffee. Medium-bodied with notes of toasted malts, licorice, nut-shells, mild peat and old coffee. Medium-bitter edgy finish of grass, old coffee and dark chocolate.

Bottle. Clear dark brown with medium tan head. Aroma of malt chocolate and light hops, notes of fruit and roasted coffee. Flavor of roastedness, molasses and black licorice. Slight sweetness throughout, burnt flavor lingers.