Sunday River Black Bear Porter

Brewed by Sunday River Brewpub and Restaurant
Style: Porter
Bethel, Maine USA

Poured a dark brown, red color, with a small, light tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, smoke, wood, and vanilla beans. Taste of more smoke, nuts, chocolate, and roasted malts.

Very good beer. Pours dark brown with no real head. Aroma is similar to maple bacon. Flavor is a bit salty and tart, but nice in a way. Balanced out with a sweet roasted malt, coffee and caramel.

Pours clear dark brown with a large tan head. Chocolate milk /cocoa powder aroma. Slightly sweet, tamed by a bit of roast malt bitterness that lingers long into the finish. Creamy and well carbonated. Decent body. A bit different and worth trying.

Black with reddish tints, thick beige head. Some floating yeast, too. Aroma is vanilla and coffee, with a touch of milk chocolate. Smooth, milky palate. Nice notes of vanilla with a coffee ish finish, Nice slightly dry finish. Thanks to Springslicker for this one!

This porter pours a deep black color from a 120z bottle. Small sized beige foamy head. Aroma is chocolate and coffee, but fairly mild. A medium bodied porter. Malts are chocolate and somewhat fruity. There is a bit of sour lactic flavor going on here so the beer may be going somewhere it shouldn’t. Fairly smooth tasting and an easy drinking porter, except for that lactic thing is really distracting. I will have to re-rate after sampling the other bottles in this month BOMC shipment. There are some nice chocolate flavors in there somewhere. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet and lactic.

Bottle. Pours almost balck with a medium head. Aroma of coffee beans, roasted malts and cacao. The flavor is not too complex and a bit too bitter for my taste. Coffee is dominant, the body is not too thin but not thick. Perhaps a bit too one dimensional for a porter I was left wanting for something more.

(sampled with irishboy)black body with red highlights,light brown head.chocolate,coffee,and milk make up the aroma and flavor.

Bottle under the Sunday River name from Porterhouse; nose of coffee and chocolate malts, Transparent brown with a medium tan head; flavor of coffee, chocolate. nad roasty malts.