Stone Smoked Porter

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Porter
Escondido, California USA

22 oz bottle Pours dark brown with great dark tan head retention. Aroma is not overbearingly smokey, but certainly present. Base porter is roasted and silky with nice smoke qualities. Personally, I’d like more smoke, but this is a well balanced beer.

The aroma is of chocolate, dried apples, beech wood, faint sulphur, coffee, seaweed, sugar and spciy/herbal hops. Smooth taste with a lot raisins and beech wood showing up. Sweet. Very faintly smoky. Decent bitterness. Poor lacework. Some seaweed sneaking in. Pleasant. A bit sour. Medium bodied. Residual sugars, beech wood and caramel in the finish. A bit dissapointing. Thanks a lot nearbeer!

1 pt 6 fl oz bottle, at The Rover, Göteborg. On January 22, 2009.
Dark red to black color (dim lighting), smallish tan head. Mellow smoked and sweet scent. Sweet, alochol, raissin, smoke taste. Medium, though dry, mouthfeel. Medium bitterness. Expected a "bigger" beer than this, but not so challenging, more subtle and drinkable.

Malty, somewhat salty, campfire aroma. Pours opaque black, dense tan head. Coffee, chococlate, roastiness, smokiness. Creamy malt palate. Dry, smoky finish. The boys at Stone never seem to disappoint.

(11/3/08) Draught sample at the brewpub in Escondido. Transparent dark brown color. Aroma of roasted malt, some smoked meat and a bit of coffee. Malty flavor with some smoke, roastiness and some chocolate hints. Medium-bodied.

Dark red brown pour with a creamy tan head. Aroma of roasted malts but not overwhelmingly strong. Flavor of roasted malts and coffee with hops and just slight smoke at the finish.

Very nice porter with only a hint of smoke. That is good for me because I cannot stand smoked beers!

22oz bottle. Dark redish brown poue with an off-white head. Smokey, peaty aroma. Smooth flavor, light smokiness, not overwhelming. Decent.