Siletz Chocolate Porter

Brewed by Siletz Brewing and Public House
Style: Porter
Siletz, Oregon USA

Dark and murky, chocolate colored head. Smell is all chocolate and malty. This is chocolate milk! No seriously, it’s almost as sweet. It has a sexy finish though.

22oz bottle: Pours a nearly opaque dark brown with a wispy, thin-lacing tan head. Has a roasty malty, milk chocolatey aroma with a touch of light fruity tartness. Body starts somewhat thin and over-attenuated, with some roasty dark chocolatey notes and some sour tartness with a nice chocolatey finish. Unfortunately infected, but would otherwise make for a pretty good porter.

Poured a a clear deep brown color with a small tan head. The aroma was smokey with some chocolate and a light tartness. Tart sour start with a tart chocolate finish. Light to medium bodied. Dry and bitter finish.

This beer pours a dark brown color that lets only a peek of light through. Medium light brown head that lasts pretty well, and patchy lacing. Dark chocolate aroma, along with some malt. Medium-bodied and somewhat smooth, with a flavor profile that does not seem to match up with the aroma. Sweet chocolate and a mild sour fruit flavor do not mesh very well. Some roasty malt characteristics keep it from becoming a complete disaster, but still the overall flavor seems off. The finish is chocolatey with a mildly sour fruit aftertaste. Kind of a letdown overall.

Poured like a typicall porter, jet black body with tan with hint of red head. The aroma is what sets this apart from others. I like the chocolate nose, and the taste was more of a chocolate coffee taste. However did not pack the punch I was expecting from the aroma. Overall a good porter.

Bottle: Dark chocolate in color, large light brown head, frothy, clumpy lacing.   Dry nose of dark cocoa, slight sour fruit skin and christmas fruit cake as well.   Rich maltiness while being a bit spritzy, huge cocoa on the tongue, with lingering fruity sourness.   Not as heavy as I thought it would be.   Tart finish, remains dry, with low hop bitterness. &nbps Quite enjoyable, even if not has heavy but instead spritzy.   Seems like most of Siletz’s brews have that spritzy sourness to them these days... oh well.   Thanks for sharing danem!

Pours with a frothy, three finger thick, chocolate cream colored head that has some staying power to it. The beer itself looks quite clear as I pour it, but sits in the glass an opaque black color. The aroma is quite chocolate dominated; sweet a bit chalky with a chocolate malt ball aroma. In the finish, aromatic notes of toasted & even roasted malt are found as well as a touch of burnt grain huskiness.

The taste has a light creaminess to it up front, it is fairly dry though and has quite a burnt barley / dark chocolate bitterness to it that linger on into the finish. The beer is lightly tart as well, and despite the up front creaminess is quite light and easy drinking. The tart acidity almost takes on a fruity edge to it, though I can’t really quite say what fruit it would be.

The finish really has such a lingeringly bitter note to it that is joined, perhaps even magnified, by a the tartness. This beer is pretty tasty, but the strong notes in the finish are a bit to big for the rest of the beer to balance. This could be quite good if brought a bit more in to balance, though not too much as the sharp biting finish is nice and needed, just at a lower level.

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Almost a burnt toast malty aroma, with definite chocolate tones. The old Guiness color with a dark tan substantial head, which disipates rather rapidly. Starts with a chocolate, with a Siletz standard sour undernote, like Brettomyces got into it somewhere? A hint of acid. Mouthfeel starts substantial, but seems to break down. The sour note stays on top of the tongue, and a decent bitterness adheres to the sides of the tongue. The finish is chocolate, coffee, hint of sour and bitter. It must be balanced, or all that couldn’t be there?