Port Brewing Old Viscosity

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: American Strong Ale
San Marcos, California USA

22 oz bottle. Pours a dark brown with a creamy brown head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet baking chocolate, some coffee and grains, a touch of molasses and fruits.

The flavor is sweet fudgy chocolate followed by some roasted nuts, coffee and some dark fruits. There is some alcohol present, but it’s well done and not offensive. The finish has a good amount of bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with low carbonation.

Overall, this is very complex and could easily be a mixed together mess, but it is very well put together and all the different flavors just accentuate each other. It’s sublime and a very decadent and tasty treat.

75cl bottle from Charles Street Liquors (Boston, MA). Pours a murky black color with thick and creamy dark brown head that settles quickly. Likening this beer to dirty oil is an apt description of the color and texture. Aroma is fresh dark chocolate, dark ripe fruit, some syrupy malt, maybe some hints of molasses. Flavor is very similar to the nose we experienced but with stronger coffee and toffee notes. However, the bitter coffee notes are more muted than in a typical beer of this style, and the texture is velvety and creamy. Full-bodied ale with a slightly bitter, slightly alcohol finish.

Getting my notebook online. Bottle. Pours as advertised "30 weight". Smoke flavors, some dark fruits. Lots of roasted malts. A very good beer!

Thanks for the bottle BOLTZ7555. This was an impressive beer. Pours a cloudy dark brown with a tan head. Roasted malt, dark fruit, oak, chocolate, a little coffee, this beer has a little bit of everything and somehow combines it all together in one hell of a 10% brew. Goes down easy. Really makes me want to try the Older Viscosity...who wants to trade me?

This is an excellent brew. Pours a deep reddish brown with frothy light tan head. Has similarities with imp stout, barleywine, and old ales. Roasted malt, bread, milk chocolate, chestnuts, plums and hints of dark fruit, licorice, oak vanilla, and hints of cocoa and floral hops. The hops are not sharp or bitter, but instead meld nicely into the rich malt. The mouthfeel is soft and rich. Wonderfully silky. Great beer.

Old Visco. What a brew indeed! Strong resemblance in flavor and appearance to an impy stout. Not quite as thick. Super inky pour, decent sized tan head. Some, not much, lacing. Coffee, baker’s chocolate, vanilla, mascerated plums, a subtle port wine hint and charred wood on the nose. Oily body. A silky smooth montage of flavors...espresso and cream, cocoa powder, cinnamon....I’ll let it warm a bit. The warming time brings out a chocolate covered cherry finish. Not as hoppy as an impy, but it is detectable, nonetheless it is strongly overpowered by a welcomed sweetness coupled with an ashen dryness. Hell, I don’t think Starbuck’s could come up with anything this good. If you find, buy it, buy it all !

Black with hues of chestnut. Tight and creamy cap of gray-tan foam. Sophisticated malt-driven aromas of chocolate wafers, malted milk balls, creamed coffee, caramelized malt, and scorched malt hulls. Light whiff of hops, red licorice, burnt toffee, plum, and raisin. Carbonation softly caresses the tongue. Bottle conditioned. Weighty layers of malt immediately unfold upon the palate as a balancing kiss of lustrous chocolate-covered plums and black cherry fruitiness shyly emerges. Sturdy, seemingly impenetrable malt body is partially lifted by a poignant bite of roasted malt hulls. Dab of coffee teases the palate as it wavers in and out of the flavorsome medley of lighter malt shades. The brightness of the dried plum and red licorice esters mirrors that of the restraint. Gooey base of melted fudge pillars the hefty maltiness while bitter notes of burnt cocoa and dark chocolate underscore the richness and echo the beautifully understated caramelized oak undertow. Alcohol is clean and virtually undetectable. Dazzling interplay between the metallic malt bite and subtle tannins which lightly tingle the palate. Despite the presence of tannins, the barrel extractives are in synch with the malt and esters. Well-developed cakey malt forms an alliance with a fudgelike tackiness before closing with a dryish cocoa, charcoal, and minty alcohol flourish. This is a finessed malt bomb. Quite exquisite.

Bottle. Poured a solid black color with a two finger brown head. Aroma of vanilla and roasted malt. Flavor was oak, vanilla, dark fruit and chocolate. Full body with soft carbonation.