Port Brewing Old Viscosity

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

22 oz. bottle from BevMo LaJolla. Pours an ebony color, opaque and viscous like oil as the name implies, along with a small medium brown head. Rich aroma, burnt chocolate, dark roastiness, molasses, red apple, cardamom, and herby notes. Rich dark chocolate flavors, anise, more roastiness, molasses, prominent alcohol, bourbon, coffee and kaluha. Full body, smooth and velvety with creamy carbonation. Yummy!

Thin head that does not last long. Reduces to a thin creamy foam on top. Rich roasty and malty aroma. Lots of molasses, brown sugar, roasted grains and a bit of vanilla. Color is a very dark brown with a hint of red around the edges. Rich malty flavor. Lots or roasted malts, some burnt toast, sweet chocolate and a nice hops bitterness. Noticable alcohol presence that warms as it goes down. There is plenty of flavor and body to offset the alcohol. Finishes rich and smooth and creamy. Lots of lingering roasted grains and sweet malts. Just a very complex and powerful brew with loads of flavor. A very good ASA.

Deep dark color, with a tan-colored head, with a sweet mochaish, roasted malt nose, with some dark dried fruit accents, hint of vanilla spiciness, note of black coffee, some alcoholic effluvia, burnt toast, with a raisiny aroma follows through on a full-bodied palate with a syrupy, fruity, black roasted malt character, with some coffee grain roastiness, burnt toaste, dark black coffee, dark bitter chocolate, with some raisin, date fruity notes, with an anise and vanilla spiciness, a touch of molasses, with a faint floral hop, within an alcoholic warmness, leading towards an intense black malt roastiness finish.

Bottle. Nose-raisins, dark fruits, dark body with a thin ring of bubbles, medium film of bubbles. Taste-coffee, sticky mouthfeel, grape, coffee, vanilla, very slight smoke/roast.

Pitch black with a weak brown head. Sweet aroma has notes of molasses, chocolate, dried fruit, coffee, and roasted nuts. Full bodied, low carbonation, and a slightly oily feel. Good flavor. The chocolate and coffee come out with some touches of a molasses cookie.

Bottle. Very little carbonation released with opening, a small, brown head forms slowly, and fades rather quickly. Some scattered lacing. Aroma is pretty pleasant, plummy, some sweetness, dark fruits, a touch of higher alcohols perhaps but not obtrusive. Full bodied, coating, lower percieved carbonation works well. Choco-boozy in flavor. Initially somewhat sweet with chocolate and dark fruits in the fore, a touch of alcohol in the middle and finish. Ample hop bitterness at the finish. Really pretty nicely done. Lots of nuances for a big brute of a beer.

Bottle thanks to Zug4abby. I shared this with the TN crew in Knoxville. Pours out thick or sludgy muddy brown (think chocolate milk), with a thin brown head. Port like aroma, with some alcohol and dark malts in the background. Thick, earthy, and milky texture and mouthfeel. Very soft carbonation. Flavors of raisens, maple syrup, chocolate,vanilla all shine through as the beer warms. The hop bitterness balances this beer out rather nicely. Faint amount of alcohol on the finish, but hidden well considering the style. Interesting and enjoyable. I would like to call out Pizza Port for making a great beer. You are welcome to serve this beer anywhere you f****ing please. Thanks Abby! If you see another and are up for a trade, beermail me.

Cellar Check 4-09. This is the first bottled version 2006 or 7?) and the hops have faded, and a tad amount of oxidation is setting in- but it’s not bad cardboardy type. It’s still drinkable, but not as good as fresh. I would not cellar this more than a year.

Pours deep mahogany into a snifter. Head quickly subsides to nothing. Chocolate and alcohol aromas. Sweet (dare I say viscous) caramel and molasses with lasting slightly bitter cocoa/alcohol finish.