St. George Porter

Brewed by St. George Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Hampton, Virginia USA

on tap at Asheville Brewfestival. amber-black tint. fruity, caramel and chocolate malts. peanut.

Pours a deep garnet/brown with a light brown head that faded quickly. Chocolatey, coffee, nutty nose. Flavor is of coffee and bitter chocolate. Finish matches the flavor. Hangs a bit, but cleaner than other porters I’ve had. Overall, a very nice and relatively cheap porter - a pleasant suprise!

Thanks to Pailhead for this beer.

Poured brown with ruby highlites with a fizzy off-white head which dissipated completely. Aroma of mild hops and a touch of chocolate. Taste is somewhat thin coffee and chocolate with a dry hop aftertaste.. a bit metallic. Decent session porter.

This was my second favorite find on my recent trip to Virginia. A nice dark brown fade to black appearance -- coffee licorice aroma, head was too carbonated for my liking tho -- too many big bubbles rather than a tight creamy froth (like Anchor’s) and it faded away quickly. Taste was also a great roasted coffee reminiscence, but it too was overcabonated. Finish was good and had a nice bitterness to it, which is not as common in this style. Overall very good.

I watched this pouring out of the bottle a deep ruby red color, but as it collected in my glass it gathered and deepened to a brownish black with generous tan head that sank to a ring of lacing that continuously floated atop the beer. Aroma is sweet chocolate and raisin/fruit. Taste has a vinous fruity edge followed by chocolate and very light roast and then finishes with an almost red grape fruityness. Very good - I should’ve bought more! (obx_2005)

Pours dark brown with a ring of film. Big chocolate aroma with some spicy dark fruits. Flavor little weaker than aroma would indicate. A little chocolate with a slighly bitter coffee finish. Decent overall. Thanks to wohlfs.

Dark Brown, near Black with a beige head, A really rich aroma, loads of malt, smells like a Port. Sweet, dessert-like, prunes, butterscotch, light floral hops. Cocoa, Mocha, a Black Russian. A sweet easy drinking beer, very tasty! DocLock, thank you!

a malty and chocolate example of a porter, this one is actually pretty good. pours brown in color and has a nice bitter finish. the bitterness is something that i like in my beers, but it kind of goes against this porter. i think porters should be smooth and creamy which this one is - yet i think they should like the hop bitterness of an IPA. still a good effort, and by no means a bad beer.