Pizza Port (Carlsbad) Port Van Porter

Brewed by Pizza Port (Carlsbad)
Style: Porter
Carlsbad, California USA

On tap at PP carlsbad. Description: "6% english style porter with coffee and chocolate notes". Thick creamy awesome nitro head. Black brown color. Low to no roastiness. Leans dry. Easy to drink. Low in flavor, but still surprizingly good.

On nitro tap at PIzza Port Carlsbad, 7/9/09. Pours near black with nice frothy head (nitro). Wonderful coffee and caramel aromas. Very well balanced porter that has very smooth mouthfeel and a nice coffee and nut finish. This is a great porter.

From tap at the Carlsbad brewpub. Pours dark brown and black with a small, tan and lasting creamy head. Hard roasted malty aroma. Flavour too is hardroasted, light coffeeish and vague dark chocolate flavoured too. Lasting roasted and dark malty flavoured into the far finish.

On tap. Clear dark brown with an orange hue and a beige head. Aroma of hard roasted malts and coffee. Fairly light body, hard roasted malts with a light sweetness. Fairly discreet bitterness. 060709

Served nitro with no warning and we got a pitcher of it. Fuck that. Pours a nitro black with big nitro head. Semi-roasty nose with chocolate and yesterdays cold coffee. Nitro watery flat mouthfeel. Creamy chocolate milk flavors, that’s all I can taste now that my head is full of nitrogen. Gets lower scores for appearance and palate because you fucks put nitrogen in my beer without my consent.

Draught at the brewpub. Looked and felt like nitro, but I didn’t get it so I can’t be sure. Black color with a big, creamy light beige head. Somewhat muted roasted grain and light chocolate aroma. Roasty and coffee flavors, but pretty sweet with lower bitterness. Medium bodied with smooth, lower carbonation. The sweetness doesn’t show in the mouthfeel. Like liquid chocolate beer but not at all heavy.

Draft in Carlsbad. A brown beer with a red shine. The aroma has notes of soy sauce and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of soy sauce, and caramel as well as light notes of roasted malt, leading to a soy sauce finish combined with a light note of roasted malt, reminds me of an ice cream topping.

Tap at Port Carlsbad. Pours a full deep brown black with a small brown head. Nice pale like malts at first and the roasted notes grow as the beer warms. Nice coffee flavors build as well. A solid porter.