Port Brewing Old Viscosity

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

650ml bottle from dsnowden! Wow, i’m excited, thank you! Pour BLACK, looks like an imperial stout. Soft beige head, nice lacing on the inside of my snifter. Aroma is smokey, and chocolatey. The hops come through, and add a nice dimension. There are also some coffee notes with some slight fruitness.......plums, and figs. Flavour is awesome! The hops are there, along with a wicked coffee taste, that finished with a great bitter chocolate that lasts forever. This is like liquid chocolate/coffee brownie, with hints of molasses. The mouthfeel is NUTS! Viscosity is dead on, this stuff is THICK. It just coats my mouth, after i swallow i can still feel the coating in the top of my mouth. The 10% is nowhere to be found, What an amazing beer, i can’t find anything wrong with it.

[bottle] Nice sweet pumpernickel aroma with good vanilla oak. Opaque black and viscous with a tan ring that leaves dots on the glass. Very pleasant sweet vanilla and mocha malt with a good balance of dark malt bitterness and hazlenut notes. Medium body, medium carbonation, slightly warming, lingering dark malt bitter.

22 oz bomber via trade with Jon. Pours a motor oil brown almost black color with a tiny tan head. Strong malty aroma with dark chocolate and alcohol hints. Taste is rich dark chocolate, roasted malts, nuts and warm alcohol. Bourbony flavor to it. Very good.

bottle, from trade with bu11zeye. Real good aroma. Sweet. Dark, dried fruits, raisin, date, plum. Lite bourbon, some cocoa, a bready yeastiness. Clean dark brown/black color little orangy around the edges. Little to no head, no lace. Bitter roasty flavor. Like aroma, loses the fruitiness though takes on more of a chocolatey, coffee, little woody & bourbon. So as I type this it seems less like the aroma. : ) Medium body, oily creamy mouthfeel, hot bitter dry finish. Nice BW. This one could sit a while longer if I could only age a beer without oxidation as I don’t think that flavor would helpo this one. Man I need to get out to southern California again.

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.

Black. Small tan cap that quickly disappears. Big time roasty bitterness, subtle mocha, caramel. Cross an old ale and an imperial stout and end up with an Old Viscosity. Full body, balanced. Excellent.

Bottled 650ml. Courtesy of badlizard. Appearance: Nice. Aroma: Malts and mushrooms with notes of boiled vegetables. Flavor and palate: Roasted malt. Sweet with hints of vanilla, tobacco and mushrooms. Nicely balanced. Slightly metallic. Hints of beechwood. Some vegetables sneaking in. Pepper appearing with the swallow. Overall impresion: Good, very pleasant and interesting. Thanks a lot badlizard!

Bottle. Aroma of coffee, roasted malts, hop presence in the background. Flavor turned a bit medicinal at times, but the roasted flavor predominates and finishes bitter. Pretty solid brew, but nothing too special, and although this shouldn’t necessarily have anything to do with anything, I was expecting something a bit more original from arrogant claims on the bottle that this beer just can’t possibly be categorized...