Port Brewing Old Viscosity

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

Aroma:rosted malt,chocolat,light dark fruit... Appearance:Dark,light tan head... Flavor:Chocolate,coffe,dark fruit,alcohol...I think is more a imperial stout than a american strong....

Bomber from Hi-Time Wine Cellars. Pours a red tinted darl brown but settles full black with a finger thick tan head that is mostly dimining. Considering the way it glups into the glass that it even has a head is impressive. The aroma is chocolate cake, nuts, walnut skins, sweet cream, vanilla and liquor soaked dark fruits. It manages not to be very intense in aroma while still having quite a range. <P> Very thick and still feeling with some burnt bitterness, burnt black chocolate, face flushing alcohol heat, low acidity coffee notes and a hot and bitter finish. Not as impressed witht he flavor as the aroma, but it’s still a very interesting beer worth trying and definitely worth aging to see what happens to it.

bottle, pour is black coal, head is slight, aroma of roasted nuts and coffee, flavors of coffee, dark nuts, cocoa and dark fruits, finish has a hoppy bite

Bottle from cquiroga, sampled with badnewsbeers. Deep red-brown garnet-colored body, thin buff head. Plummy, toasty aroma, emphasis on heavy malts, with dark fruits and layers of caramel masking warming alcohol notes. Butterscotchy, boozy body with notes of vanilla, caramel, and toast in addition to plum. Develops a smoked, leathery, salty mouthfeel. Rich, heavy body with appropriate warming alcohol. Excellent complexity and heft.

Bottle. Almost black coloured with a small head. Malty and roasted with notes of blue cheese, yeast, chocolate and alcohol.

Bottle. Dark black with a smallish brown head. Cheesy yeast aroma with caramel and metallic toastiness. Alcoholic flavour with leafy hops and lots of base roastiness. Complex. Very good.

Bottle. thanks to Mary at Captain Lawrence Ratebeer Gathering 5/5/07. Deep dark brown in color with a nice fluffy off white head. Malty roasty chocolatety aroma. Caramel toffee notes. Roasty malty and bitter chocolatety flavor. Hoppy notes. Finish is malty. Full bodied. Smooth. Rich and complex. Great beer. Very drinkable.

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.