Port Brewing Hot Rocks Lager

Bottle from WeeHeavySD and served in my ESPN Lager glass: Wow, much darker than I expected with a mahogany hue topped by a off-white creamy head and left sheets of excellent lace upon the glassware. The aroma has notes of roasted, caramel, and nutty malts along with a hint of prune, tobacco and chocolate wrapped in an earthy estery body. The taste is malty and slightly fruity with a light earthy and smoky finish. Just a kiss of noble hop bitterness and dried coffee. The mouth feel is smooth and a tad chalky and minerally. Overall a solid dunkel for sure, far more than the pale lager I was expecting. I would have drank this sooner if I would have known.

Bottle. Brown body with a creamy tan head. Lots of caramel, malt, barley, fruit and light smoke in the flavour. Chocolate, light roasted malts, light hops, fruit and light smoke in the flavour. Very nice Dunkel.

A clear brown colored beer, with a thick foamy beige head. The aroma of caramel with fruits and malts. The taste has caramel too. There are hints of chocolate with bitter with sweet and spices in the back. The aftertaste nice bittersweet.

Bottled. Arma has caramel malts, raisin, some grass. Clear, dark brown coloured beer with an off-white head. The taste is sweet, with malts, some dark fruits. has some carbonation. Thin-medium bodied. Okay.

Dark Brien color with a dense creamy frothy cream colored head. Aroma has sweet caramel, cooked rice and wet leaves. Flavor has some cardboard, rice, sweet dark malts, some bittersweet cocoa and a hint of nuts and roast.

22 oz bottle from Abe’s. Poured a deep ruby/brown with a large frothy beige head. Aroma was far more complex then I was expecting with notes of chocolate, wood, nutts and spoiled grape jelly. The body was mediumd to slightly fuller with average carbonation and a slightly creamy finish. Flavor has notes of chocolate, old nuts, bad fruit preserves, wet bread and a hint of rotting strawberries. Interesting beer and far more complex then the pale golden lager I was anticipating.

Ruby black with thin white halo of head. Aroma is melanoidins and raisins. Taste is an odd combination of dry breadiness with raisins, cherries and treacle with residual minerality. $6/22oz

Bottle 65cl.
Clear medium brown color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, spicy, fruoty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090724]