Smuttynose Robust Porter

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a medium creamy tan head. Aroma of roasted malt and dark chocolate. Flavor of toasted malt, chocolate, and light coffee with a smooth, creamy mouthfeel.

Really fantastic porter, it’s a brew that is complex in it’s taste and easy to drink. Excellent smell of malt, caramel and chocolate. Nice smooth finish and a wonderful beer to drink, even when it’s not cool outside.

Poured a dark black with ruby highlights. Creamy, frothy head which dissapated fairly rapidly but left behind some gentle lacing on the glass and on the surface of the brew. Deep malty, roasted grain aroma. Flavors similar to aroma: roasted grains, malt, wheat, a hint of nuttiness, and a mild hoppiness. A real "serious" porter...Smuttynose always pulls through with excellent brews.

Wonderful brew. Dark black body with a small tan-colored head. Aroma was not complex, but gave hints of a wonderfully roasty and malty experience. Taste was very malty and rich. Burnt notes, strong flavoring and a small hoppy twang in the finish. As it warmed, there were some earthy notes to it. Very unique, and definitely the break-out porter that I was looking for on the particular day. This one will stay in regular rotation in my refrigerator, especially in the winter.

Tap at Hop Devil Grill. Black beer with a thin off-white head. Aroma is quite simple, black malt, herbal hoppiness as well as some dark caramel. Low chocolate character, but a very prominent anise/licorice aroma. Flavour is very herbal, licorice, toast and a lingering earthy hoppiness. Light roast, but the earthy and herbal notes drive the show here. Tasty and quite distinctive.

Black color small white head. Aroma is smokey, roasted w/ some chocolate. Flavor is roasted coffee w/ some chocolate and caramel help to lend a bit of depth.

dark brown/black pour w/ slighty tan head and lacing. coffee and chocolate notes all over the place, hop notes come though nicely, and balanced through and through. one of the best all around porters i’ve had, and would be a ’classic’ example of the breed.

pours dark brown with a tan head. fantastic aroma. rich mocha with some vanilla and cherry. beautifully balanced flavor. bittersweet mocha and hops. medium body. finish smooth bittersweet slightly acidic mocha. fantastic drinkable porter. everything a porter should be. this might just be a new favorite.