Port Brewing Older Viscosity

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

Bottle, 2009 Vintage. Nice beer, but more like a mild whisky. Pours black with zero head and almost no carbonation. Had it head to head with Yule Smith, and I preferred the Yule Smith. Very complex and interesting beer. Aroma very boozy, whisky notes, smokey. Mouthfeel is boozy, syrupy. Taste is bourbon, oaky, vanilla, coffee and nice licorice finish.

this beer smells like delicious whiskey then explodes with deliciousness into my mouth

Pours a black liquid with no head. Smell is extremly rich and very complex with lots of vanilla-like notes of oak, some caramel and a bit of alcohol. The taste has a lot of alcohol, oak barrels and vanilla along with some heavily roasted malt. Somewhere, the flavour fails to keep up with the aroma, but this is still an amazing beer.

bottle, thank you very much Allen! Deep brown colour with no head. Very complex aroma of caramel, songle malt whisky with a touch of smoke and dark berries. Very full-bodied, intensively malty, rather sweet with flavours of licorice, dates, whisky and plums, and just a shy hint of smoke.Very interesting, thanks for sharing this one and Angel’s Share with me, Allen!

Bottle from 2009 batch pours a smokey dark red/brown that has no head or lacing, but leaves "legs" on the glass the way a brandy would. The bourbon-licorice-caramel-chocolate aroma is top notch. The taste buds find raisin, buffalo jerky, oak, dried cherries, smoke, leather, and a pretty strong alcohol base. The dry finish leaves your mouth a-tingle from the front of your lips to the bottom of your throat. Like a boozier, more concentrated version of Angle’s Share. While the complexities of aroma and taste are impressive, at $16/bottle, it’s a one time taste experiment. There are at least twenty other beers I would buy before another of these.

2008 12.7 oz bottle thanks to Giarcsr ( thanks Ryan)poured black and thick in body and yes this one has a nice big whippy tan head aromas are of dark fruits,roasted malts,bourbon,vanilla and oak taste is of all the fore mentionedalso has great lacing , alcohol is very well hiddenvery smooth and creamy mouthfell one great beer

12.7 oz bottle in Buret: Pours dark dark dark black with a hint of blood around the edges. Absolutely no head, just a small Single-file line of bubbles along part of the glass. Massive chocolate aroma with red-wine poached apple. Wonderful strong but not stringent coffee beans circle around the chocolate. Chocolate coated raisins build up as the alcohol and fruit blow off. Nice vinous notes underneath everything as well as a touch of musty basement. Wow! I am already satisfied and I haven’t even tasted it yet! Flavors of coffee sweetened with chocolate syrup and perhaps a touch of condensed milk this sweet chocolate slides back and makes way for coffee with a whiskey kick. Irish coffee?! This is where the hop bitterness and some hop flavor roll on in breaking up the coffee. The hot alcohols stay but don’t become as distracting as they often can. Long coffee, hop and whiskey finish to this slick and thick treat. This really should be a bottle to share... Too bad I opened alone. I’ll have to get another bottle and age it too. All I can say is wowee wow wow!

Thanks to Adrian for opening one of these interesting, champagne-corked bottles. This poured out black and thick, with a fair amount of coffee in the aroma. Rich, hoppy, full, and strong. An espresso malt flavor is the big thing here. I didn’t really taste much bourbon or barrel - I believe it was the last beer of the night, so maybe my taste buds were starting to lose power. A very good brew, but given how high it is rated, I was hoping for something a little better. I would like to give it another try someday.