Otter Creek Stovepipe Porter

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

Not a bad Porter at all. Dark brown color, tan head. Nose of chocolate, roasy malts and coffee. Flavor profile is pretty much the same.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small tan head. Nose is dark malty and chocolate with some very nice roast notes. Palate is fluffy but also full and a bit chalky. Flavors of roasted malts, some nice coffee hints and a bit of dry chocolate in the finish.

Blind tasted - Decent white head atop a reddish-brown pour. Aroma has nutmeg and toasted malt. Taste is blah, with a little spice and slight toast. There just isn’t much giong on in the background of this one. It’s light-bodied and with harsh carbonation that makes it less drinkable. Wouldn’t try again.

Bottle at home ... Thanks to Space Coyote for this one ... deep brown thin tan head ... Big roast malt little chocolate malt ... mily malts .... sweet roast ... little toasted oats ... little hop ... quite nice

Pours a dark opaque chocolaty brown with a fairly thick pale tan head. Aroma is oily, smoky and yeasty, what I expect from a porter. Flavor is smoky with a firm undertone of chocolate and hints of toffee and coffee. Texture is smooth and fizzy, just a bit on the thin side but still pleasing.

Bottle. Since I bought this at Whole Foods, I predicted this would be a big ol’ bottle of hippie bullshit. Well, it’s not quite that; it’s actually rather decent, at least more decent than I expected. Pours a beautiful cola-black with a nose of plastic smoke and chocolate spices. Flavor is a touch of sweet cocoa powder with hints of wild berry spices. Reminds me of a sub-par Anchor Our Special Ale. Average mouthfeel. Not as bad as I thought, but no more.

dark brown in the glass. offwhite head. slight coffee aroma and some chocolate malt character is evident. small notes of roast. watery mouthfeel is an immedeate turn of. bitter chocolate and coffee tones give way to a bitter graininess. Not great, but not half bad either.

12oz bottle poured into a tulip. Pours a deep, dark brown in the glass with a big creamy tan head that shows great retention and leaves spotty lacing. It actually shows through as a dark clear mahogany when held up to light. The aroma is mix of sweet chocolate malts and roasted coffee. The malts has a bit of a bitter character with some toasted grains coming through as well. The flavor actually starts with a toasted grain bitterness with hints of chocolate malts in the background, though it gives way to the bitter roasted coffee in the finish. The bitterness actually builds up after each sip and becomes slightly off-putting after a while. The mouthfeel is light to medium bodied with good carbonation. It’s bordering on watery. This is a decent porter though the astringent bitterness limits the drinkability and keeps this one from being a top-tier porter.