Southampton Imperial Porter

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Southampton, New York USA

Sampled with stegosaurus. Pours black in color with a big tan head. Aroma of chocolate malts, caramel, and a bit of light hops. Flavor is licorice, roasted malts, coffee and some dark chocolate. Good but not great.

for someone who isn’t crazy about porters I seem to buy an awful lot of them. deep garnet-brown body with a small milk chocolate head. smells strongly of alcohol and roasted malts. tastes of strong alcohol roast, malts, chocolate, finishes sweet, like brown sugar. overall palate is a bit filled. not thick but has substance. hard to describe. not bad for a porter. more alcohol taste than more recent porters I’ve tried which I like because I think its balanced with other flavors well.

Sample from bottle at Ølbaren. Pours black. Aroma is malty sweet. Taste is creamy and bitter with chocolate and coffee notes. Finish is dry and roasted.

Blind tasting at sk8vikings porter / stout tasting, beer no 3. Pours dark brown with little brown rim. Aroma is roasted malty with alcohol note. Flavour is dark roasted malty with a distinct alcohol note. Fairly simple with a medium body. 6-4-6-3-12 3.1

(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of pineypower. Dark brown with a warm, reddish hue and a creamy beige head that leaves a pretty lacework. Sweet aroma of roasted malt and prunes? Medium body with sweet, roasted malts, licorice, some dried fruit - prunes in particular - and absolutely no bitterness. Nice. Perhaps more of a Baltic Porter really. 060407 and 070907

NorCal tasting Apr 07 - Yowza!! What do we have here!! What an awesome beer!!! Now this is what I wish more brewers would do with their Baltic Porters. Make it so it’s refined, clean and smooth yet still pack a serious punch. Aroma is dark fruit, caramel, toffee, baker’s chocolate with some underlying smoke. Appearance is perfect. Flavors were intense, yet smooth enough to not be overpowering. Any more and it would have been a ragged stout and any less unrefined. Dark fruit, baker’s chocolate, roasted malts, and toffee with just enough of a subtle hop kick to remind you it’s there. Nice job and highly recommended.

Black Color with Coffee Head. Light Vanilla, Very Malty...Some Roasts..Balancing Bitterness from the Hops...Bit of an Almond Flavor ... Nice Porter.

Black colour with a small light brown head. Light roasted and vague coffee bitter aroma with some chocolate sweetness. Roasted malty flavour with a coffee bitterness and a vague chocolate sweet note. Light dry and roasted finish.

Bottle. Nice deep dark brown colour. Aroma of roasted chocolate and malt with dark fruit and some coffee. Flavour of good roasty malt, dark chocolate, coffee, caramel and alcohol.