Port Brewing Old Viscosity

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

65 cl bottle at my garage-tasting May 8th. Vintage 2008. Black color, brown head. The aroma is dark malty and coffee. Flavor is coffee, dark malt, some sweetness and has a bitter finish.

Draught. Black body with a small light brown head. Lots of roasted malt in aroma with some coffee and chocolate notes. Sweet malty aroma with light roasted coffee notes as well as chocolate. Well balanced and the alcohol is well hidden.

Rating #900. Bottle from dirty_martini - Thanks! Pours a dark brown, near black with a small tan head. Nose is rich and full of roastiness, vanilla, and seemingly that bourbon sweetness from a barrel aged brew... Smooth and creamy on the palate with flavors of cocoa, coffee, roast, and moderate sweetness into bitters. Nice level of complexity and very pleasant to drink.

pours a dark oily black .. . some roast and old oil aromas .. . some burnt caramel, and light non roast espresso notes .. . like a burnt peice of leg of lamb... a tasty brew, with the slightest kiss of smoke .. .

cocoas, meat soy, light in body, a cool blend with grape an cherry flavors, a tad bit of fruit skin astringency, groovy. Creativity is a great thing.

After having a bad day yesterday I came home to find that my box from Brian had arrived. So I went through seeing what I had received, and this one was in there. Without thinking twice, or thinking about sharing a bomber of this wonderful beer with people I know at a tasting or whatever, I popped the cap off of it. Pours out a dark brown color with a small like tan head that faintly appears on after the beer has poured. The smell is full of chocolate and some coffee. A touch of grass from the hops is noted as well. Taste is rich and thick, full of chocolate and coffee and hoppy flavors. Damn, a real challange to drink this bomber due to to thickness, but I was certianly up for the challange. Really really good stuff. I wish I could get about a case of this beer. A permanant addition to my want list.

Tashi’s house, 28/05/08. Bottle I brought back from City Beer in San Francisco. Pours an opaque extremely dark brown and looks superb. The complex aroma assaults your nose, hitting you with hints of musty old wood and musky sweat. The taste is all about the interaction of the dark bitter chocolate and coffee flavours with the wood notes. A great beer, one to sip and savour.

Pours dark brown, thick and viscous, with a very thin layer of light brown head. Aroma of chocolate, molassis, vanilla, and burnt sugar. Tastes a little like burnt mocha coffee and wood. I get some bourbon qualities in the finish. Quite hot from the alcohol. Rich and full bodied.