Sea Dog Toasty Nut Porter

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

Dark Brown Coloring with Red Hues...Big Sandy Head. Rich Malt and Light Hazelnut Aroma. Thin Mouthfeel...Swett Malt, Then a Big Hit of Drying Hazelnut Dominates This Brew....Dry Light Roasted Finish. This one is All about the Hazeled Nuts.

12oz bottle. Very dark brown, soapy tan head. Big nutty aroma of lots of hazelnuts. HUGE HAZELNUT. Very dry roast, lots of stycki hazelnut syrup. Like a cold hazelnut coffee with extra syrup. Nice malt profile, good hop. perfect balance. Fun, to flavorful form me...

On tap a the pub... Aroma:butter and chocolate... Apperance:dark,huge brown head.. Flavor:strong rosted malt,nutty..

buttery and smokey like a good scotch ale. nutty and tastes strikingly like frangelica. bottle reads drink in 2006. lucky find at moe’s deli 38th st 9th ave manhattan nyc. good body and moderate carbonation with a spicy hop character that is quite muted but distinct. moderate in the malts and sweetness.

Pours burnt dark brown with a huge tan head that last a long while. Aroma is nutty, sweet, toasty, roasty, butterscotch, and hazelnut syrup flavored coffee. Roast malt, buttered toast, HAZELNUT (I love hazelnut, but WOW...way too strong, it tastes like someone took an average dry stout, a porter, and hazelnut syrup and mixed them equally, very artificial). Enough spicy, and bitter hops to balance a portion of the flavor but it remains oddly sweet and too nutty. Body is thin and over carbonated for a porter.

(cleaning out my beer bottle collection as pictured in my profile and utilizing ratebeer.com) As I recall, this was an average porter.

On tap at brewpub. One of the selections in a sampler. This one was pretty good. Can’t remember specifics.

Very dark brown, but not black color, nice roasted aroma and a wonderful roasty flavor, with a slight hop finish. I love this stuff, too bad its seasonal.