Sprecher Generation Porter

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

from the bottle. poured a dark mahogany with a big light brown head that left some lacing. aroma. roasted malts, chocolate, molasses, caramel, got berries but I don’t think thet were raspberries. flavor not good had a strange sourness to it could not taste any of the stuff I got in the aroma, this was almost a drain pour but I thought let warm and maybe it will get better, it didn’t

Try some and celebrate with Sprecher... they deserve it. That said... It pours a deep dark mahogany with a generous head. It’s a pretty brew. Aroma was very faint. Flavor is reminiscent of a sour brown, from the raspberry. The cocoa is faint at first but comes forward over time. Nice in the mouth, slightly tart and effervescent, and a nice lingering aftertaste. Overall a nice beer, very drinkable, a little light for a porter, not extraordinary.

Pours with a two-finger pillowy light tan head that fades slowly leaving a good lace. Black - totally opaque. Good carbonation, medium-heavy bodied. Nose is chocolate. Starts sweet, chocolate is right up front, hints of raspberry in the background, smooth, excellent porter. $2.35 for a 16oz bottle from Blanchard’s Allston, Ma.

Bottle, from Julio’s. ok nose, sweet. Raspberry, though lite, some chocolate or maybe cold coffee that has cream in it. Clean orangy brownish black color, Ok head that faded quickly. Sweet, lite roast flavors. Like aroma, has a chambord thing going on, little viney. Some chocolate if you think about it. Medium body, creamy, slight oily mouthfeel. Sweet roasted finish. I didn’t get into this one much. Didn’t think the flavors mixed well.

Got in a trade from GrainBeltGuzzler. Pours out a deep black color with a small off-white head. The aroma is of raspberry and some chocolate. The taste is very thin for a porter and is pretty nice, but nothing overlly complex, leaves me wanting something more.

At Bootopia, bottle shared by EDA. Black color with a small tan head. Aroma of coffee, dark chocolate and cherries. Flavor was more coffee and chocolate covered tart cherries. For some strange reason I kept smelling and tasting cherries instead of raspberries. Interesting, but not my thing.

Bottled. Pours a nice sweetly tinged raspberry smell. Deep brown to black body under a thin head of pinprick bubbles. First taste impression is tart raspberries. Then comes cocoa, like unsweetened Droste. From that point comes a good chocolate smell. The fruit and cocoa kind of over whelm what would be a nice porter profile: instead of dark rich porter malts with chocolate roasties, I get a fine fruit beer. That’s my opinion, anyway. Not to style, but a sweet little beer that edges toward a lambic quality.

Thanks to Eyedrinkale for sharing this.

Poured black with a light brown head. Cherry and bubble gum aroma. Flavor is tart cherries and raspberries with a bitter coffee finish. The tartness seemed to overpower the flavor of the porter... perhaps this should be classified as a fruit beer?