Sea Dog Riverdriver Hazelnut Porter

Brewed by Sea Dog Brewing (Shipyard Brewing Co.)
Style: Porter
Topsham, Maine USA

a brown beer with a huge foamy tan head. sweet chocolate and roasted nuts aroma. flavor is chocolate, and roasted nuts as well. dry, chalky texture. medium bodied.

Bottle from Systembolaget, Munkebäck ,Göteborg. Dark reddish brown with a rich beige head. Roasted and fudgy aroma, with a light touch of cigarette ashes. Would not have picked hazelnut in a blind tasting but there is some syrupy touch to it. Medium bodied and smooth. Good balance with a dry finish.

12 oz bottle, best by Sept. ’08. Very dark copper with a light brown head. Nose is mildly smoky malt with a light nuttiness. Flavor is more of the same, with a burnt edge. Not bad.

This is a pleasant, highly drinkable, light porter with a definite but thankfully mild hazelnut element. It is a very dark red brown with a very big tan head that slowly dissipates to a small head leaving some lacing. The aroma is mostly hazelnut with a little toasted malt, coffee, chocolate. The taste at 1st is hazelnuts but this mellows quickyl to a light hazelnut element on a toasted malt base with hints of coffee and chocolate, a good sweet-bitter balance. It has a fairly oily palate, especially when it warms. Overall it is light and mild for a porter but it is a little different, smooth, and easy to drink and not to hazelnutty.

12oz bottle-Dark brown with a nice tan head which has an aroma of roasted malt and hazelnut. A light mouthful with a taste of hazelnut, malt, hops, and a dryness on the back end. Very light and watered down for a porter almost should be a nut brown. Not a bad beer but has potential to be better.

bottle poured into a snifter is a black in color with little head or lacing. aroma of malt, sweet hazelnut, reminds me of that hazelnut coffee creamer. mouth feel is on the lighter side and the taste is malt with a sweet chocolate hazelnut and finishes with hops bitter on the dry side. the hazelnut is artificial smelling but the bottle labels it natural hazelnut flavor added perhaps a mix of both but it adds something i personally like. better than my expectations were for this one.

pours a dark red-brown with an explosive, foamy tan head. A smokey, hazelnut odor. Taste starts off hazelnut, and ends with a nice mix of bitter hops and malts. An interesting beer- I’d get this again.

Pours out deep red with a thick off white head. Roasted coffee and hazelnut aroma. Very smooth tasting with a hint of coffee, chocolate malt and hazelnut. Nice carbonation and dry aftertaste. Very refreshing.