Pennichuck BackDraft Chocolate Porter

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

Thanks kiefdog for the share. Pours dark brown with off-white head. Nose is dark malt, chocolate, and light nutty flavors. Flavor is chocolate, brown sugar, and some cola with malty/ chocolatey finish. Medium light mouthfeel. Sessionable.

Bottle, courtesy kiefdog. Reddish orange brown pour, gray head and white lacing. Bitter medicinal nose, vegetal notes, some roast, very distant chocolate. Flavor has chewy licorice and dry molasses, slight chocolate. Big ole meh here. Thin body, tough to drink, just not that good overall.

Bottle courtesy of gibby. Pours a clear cola brown to black with thin white head. Aroma is malty and sweet with notes of nuts, chocolate, ripe dark fruit, caramel, some hints of coffee. Flavor is sweet and malty, a little thin, with notes of cola, molasses, brown sugar, some syrupy ashy notes. Generally medium body with a slightly chocolate and malty finish.

Thanks to lithy for sharing this bomber. Opaque with sort of a wimpy head that tries to last. I smelled dark chocolate, ash and light wood in this one. Tasted corn, ash and coffee grounds. Medium body is roasty-dry. A bit disapointing.

Bottle at nearbeer’s Spring Cleansin’. Pours dark brown with thin beige head. The aroma is ash and coffee grounds with some caramel notes. The flavor is ash, distant bitter chocolate, a little bit of toffee, and a woody finish. Ok, but not great.

nearbeer’s Spring Cleansin’. Sample from a bottle shared by me thanks to mcox90. Dark dark brown with a thin light tan head. Aroma is ash, dry burnt malt. Taste is a bit of smoke, burnt malt, bitter soy sauce finish. No chocolate.

22oz bottle-pours a tan head and dark brown color. Aroma is chocolate/roasty dark malt, somewhat sweet, slight hops. Taste is chocolate/roasty dark malt, somewhat sweet, some earthy hops. Nice, smooth.

Bomber. Pours dark brown with a small head. Palate was smooth, with a dry finish. Flavors are certainly dark with mild roasts, but the middle flavors are notably weak. I drank my portion of the bomber with scarcely an impression of it afterwards.