Pennichuck BackDraft Chocolate Porter

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

Dark brown pour with a tan head and lace. Chocolate, burnt coffee, and roasted malt on the nose. Semi sweet malt, chocolate, and a light earthy hop bitter. Medium full bodied beer with an almost creamy carbonation but not. The best beer I think I’ve had from these guys to date.

(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.

Pours dark borwn with a light brown head. Smells of sweet malt and chocolatey. Tastes of chocolate, some caramel. Not as good as their other beers.

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.

Draft @ Monster B’s. A light bodied porter gives this a marshmellowy lightness. I can taste the crispness of the hop with light nutmeg tones. Good porter.

22oz bottle. Pour is a very dark brown. Head is a creamy ring around around the glass. Aroma is deep and rich. Smokey. Nice chewy body with sweet and smokey very mild roast.

22 oz bottle. Just clear mahogany with a beige head. Nose is prunes, molasses and dates. Medium light with a sharp tingle. Taste is plum and coffee with traces of chocolate in the finish. Good, but not so interesting.

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.