Port Brewing Old Viscosity

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

Thanks to illinismitty for sharing this bottle with us at the Tennessee Spring(ish) Tasting! (And Zug4abby for sending it to him) Pours black and thick with almost no head. Malty, alcoholic aroma. Raisins, prunes, and caramel dominate the flavor. Smooth oily palate.

Bomber, thanks to aspidites. Pours a murky blackish brown with a thick tan head. A touch of brown sugar on the nose. Medium body. Lightly sweet taste loaded with malt and toast. Maybe a bit of fruit. Pine and alcohol finish.

bottle at Ft Wayne tasting - Pours very dark brown with a tan head. It smells of roast malt and coffee. It tastes of dark roast malt, smoke, and coffee with some bitterness in the finish. This brew is full bodied and very good.

22oz. bottle, has to be well over a year old now. Roasty, dark, sweet malt aroma, with appetizing notes of chocolate truffle, plummy fruit, lightly smoky wood, maple sugar and very faint bourbon, along with some background coffee and slight medicinal alcohol. Now this stuff really is the color and consistency of well-used motor oil, there have been other brews to cross my path and lay that claim and they’ve fallen short, but not this one. Head fades to nothingness after a short period, while the bottom of the bottle is coated with sediment after the pour. Flavor profile is dark and roasty to start, becoming sweeter and blended with berryish fruit and licorice, finishing with a blend of earthy bitterness, slight bourbon, aged wood, toffee, gentle but insistent alcohol and lingering espresso. Very smooth and low in effervescence on the palate but has a full, sticky, warming mouthfeel to it and a massively rich body. Very interesting, tasty and complex, ultimately, with some Imperial Porter-like characteristics. Nice.

Bottle form By The Bottle in vancouver, WA--Poured a deep dark brown-black body with a wispy off-white head. Nutty, bold, malty, hoppy as hell nose. Not quite a barley wine, but close. Kind of like an imperial stout and imperial IPA on steroids. Quite scrumptious and complex. Chocolate, toffee, coffee, molasses, dark fruits, and citrus. You gotta try it!

Big thanks to MiguelMandingo for sharing this bottle.
Pours black with a medium lived tan head that leaves some spotty lacing. Smell is amazing. Mollasses, brown sugar, graham cracker, cookie sweetenss held in check with some rich roastiness. Smells like The Abyss.
Taste is dark dry roast, dark chocolate and a hoppy finish hiding behind all the flavorful roast. Perhaps the mildest twinge of bourbony flavor, but it melds so well with the other flavors that I wouldn’t even know its a bourbon beer. A nice light dry oak characteristic in the end as well. Looks and smells like an imperial stout, and is rich and flavorful like one, except its body is not quite as thick, perhaps, and the hops shine, yet complement the beer more than in any Imperial Stout I’ve had. Easily one of my new favorites. Thanks again Mike!

Bottle shared by bgburdman9: Dark brown with a very small tan head. Aroma, coffee, roasted malts, some bitterness. Flavor, roast coffee, some chocolate, alcohol, and a roasty bitterness to it. Medium bodied, some warming. Another good one.

Thanks to illinismitty for sharing this bottle. A dark brown pour with no head or lace. An aroma of chocolate coffee and yeast. A flavor of raisins or some dried fruit. The abv sneaks in a tad as well. A very bitter finish. Excellent carbonation but a tad thin. Nice all round. thanks sean.