Pennichuck BackDraft Chocolate Porter

Brewed by Pennichuck Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Milford, New Hampshire USA

Clear average brown pour that mostly neglects head production. Powdery, softly earthy, rather stale nose. Stays linear all along, hinting at soya, chocolate and cola along the way, but never really focusing, never developing a fruitiness. Tiny bubbled carbonation mostly happens in the background as no clear bubble is felt, but the tongue is tickled at first, but quickly bitten. Light-bodied, watery texture. I usually dig Pennichuck more than that. This felt very ordinary and just too sweet for a lower gravity beer that I’d prefer drinking in big gulps.

Bottle. Pours clear ruby brown with a beige head. Toasty malt aroma with hints of cocoa and hops. The body is a bit thin for a porter. Light roasted malt flavor, with creamy chocolate and a touch of hops. Pretty good.

22 oz bottle poured a brown in color with some red highlight and a thin dark tan head. aroma has chocolate, brown malt, light hop bitters, and faint roast. the malt picks up in the flavors with nuts, chocolate, and light earth. the body is a little light but the flavors are all nicely done.

Sweet roasted chocolate aroma. Dark amber color with a small tan head. Sweet and bitter flavor. Palate is very light for a porter.

Pretty thin body and thin flavor, with chocolate notes and a bit of roast. Some sweetness. No flavor of anything really, just traces of what a porter is supposed to be. Uninspired, and a bit bland.

(bottle - 22 oz) Dark brown in color with a thick and creamy tan head. Aroma has a light malt touch mixed with some baker’s chocolate and roasted malts. Taste begins sweet and malty with some chocolate coming through in the middle and a lightly roasted and chocolaty finish. Smooth and creamy but a bit thin.

Courtesy of kiefdog. Pours brown with copper to gold edges and off white head. The aroma has chocolate, roasty malts, earthiness, some grainy malts, molasses and faint burnt malts. The taste is roasty to mildly burnt malts to go along with some dark fruity esters and then moving into mild earthy notes. It gets somewhat dry for a moment or two before the malt and modest caramel sweetness surge into the finish.

Bomber from goldtwins, thanks Larry. Pours black with a tan head. Nose is sweet and malty with some milk chocolate. Taste is sweet and chocolaty and all in all a bit too cloying for me.