Port Brewing Old Viscosity

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

This would hold up extremely well against most stouts, both in alcoholic intensity and opacity. Nice well balanced brew with lingering dryness that usually gets steamrolled in most hoptastic stouts coming from the west coast. Take this any day.

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.

A bottle enjoyed this New Years Eve provided by Chris Q: Well it is darker than expected almost stout like in is appearance. There is not much head but the beer coats the glassware with a VERY OILY UNFILTERED film hence the name of the brew methinks. The nose is very much in the traditional olde English Vintage Ales with a heavy oxidized character along with a plum cake aroma topped by non-aromatic pipe tobacco, sea salt, bakers chocolate, vanilla bean, fine Indian washed coffee, and just a wonderful finishing earthy, smoky and dusty ester...Oh heck yeah baby!!!

The taste is a tad hotter than I would wish but the nutty, olde hop, cellar and dusty nature of a fine olde ale shines though never the less. Fruity and round throughout with a tribute to those damn canned fruit cakes nobody wants for Christmas. In the end a strangely unique dry, chalky, and powered spice undertone leads the drinker off into a visions of flight of fantasy. The mouth feel is once again a reminder of the moniker, oily and heavy for sure, the thickness near 2004 Dark Lord weight...I really dig this brew and hope that aging will temper the hotness without making it taste "too old". I will take another for the cellar hence forth.

Bottle: Heaven on earth... full body, smooth, abv well hidden, flavorful, rounded, nice, good, waiter one more!

22oz Bottle
This was a deep dark brown brew with a thin head. The beer had aroma coming out of the bottle. This had fruty aromas, chcolate and coffee. The beer was one for the ages this was one of the best brews I have ever had. Great stuff. I will buy this all the time. AWESOME!!!!

On tap: Aromas of grape, raisin, chocolate, and a hint of pineapple. Dark brown with orange hilights and a small tan head. Flavor starts very fruity with lots of grape and raisin up front. Light roasted coffee in the background. Lots of chocolate in the finish with a light grapefruit hoppiness and some faint sour notes..

Bottle. Black colour with a beige head. Rye bread, roast, fruits, chocolate aroma and a light sweet roasted, fruity, chocolate taste. Medium body with a light alcoholic finish. 6-4-7-4-16 Re-Rate. Blind tasting 9-4-8-4-18 A Black beer with a brown head. The aroma is of rye bread, vanilla, wood, fruits aroma and taste. Medium to full body with a warm alcoholic finish.

Pours as dark as midnight in the Sahara, with a sandy colored creamy head to boot. Chocolate, fresh roasted coffee and wood notes on the notes. Chocolatey , coffee nibs cake mixed with the lightest touch of bourbon. Creamy, full bodied mouth feel that seems to be the beer that drinks like a meal. Very long, hoppy and roasted finish. Damn nice beer, and in my mind, under appreciated.