Southern Tier Raspberry Porter

(Bottle) Pours dark brown with a red glow. Off-white head. The aroma is of fresh raspberries with only a whisper of roast, toast and caramel. The flavour is soda-like like with clear raspberry notes alongside tiny hints of malt way in the background. The mouthfeel is clean with a light crisp carbonation. Light to medium sweet and light bitter. Light bodied.

Bottled. pours out in a clear reddish brown colour with a small white head. Clean, almost stale aroma of toasted malts and cherry juice. Medium to light-bodied with touches of mild cocoa-powder, cherry syrup, metal with a low hop-rate. Short finish of toasted malts, candied cherries and rasperry-gum. No thanks.

Bouteille de 355 ml bu à Smokeless Joe (Toronto), le 10/7/08. Brune ruby, peu de collet. Arome de malte chocolaté, framboise très présant. Goût de framboise un peu sûrette, un peu malté mais pas plus que ça. C’est pas mauvais mais c’est loin d’être un porter!

Pours a clear dark brown with a small small tan head. Aroma is medium sweet, raspberry, light chocolate and caramel. Flavor is raspberry, astringency and light chocolate. Light to medium body. Really more raspberry than porter.

Thanks MIketd. Pours a thin and kind of translucent brown. Allows more light than I would like from the style. The head is also very uncharacteristic, foams an enormous tan head. The nose is fairly two dimensional, raspberry syrup (not real raspberry), some chocolate, a little sweet, the tiniest hop character pokes through along with a tad bit of roast. The flavor is very sweet raspberry, roasty, chocolate, porter shows well. I’ll give it this it is a raspberry porter, doesn’t bear too much on either side in my opinion. Thin mouthfeel and a finish that leaves you wanting a bit more of those "Pacific Northwest grown hops".