Sweetwater Exodus Porter

Formerly brewed at Sweetwater Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Atlanta, Georgia USA

bottle. Exodus is a decent black with a frothy head that slowly fades after a while. A bit of light passes through to reveal browns. The aroma is not very strong and is of malty chocolate and coffee. This goes down really smoothly. The roasted coffee is well balanced with milk chocolate, though it’s just a bit sharp. This is easy to drink and makes for a nice everyday beer.

thanks goes to TheBeerCellar2 for this bottle. poured a dark brown with a tan head, that left some lacing. aroma. chocolate, malts,hops, dark fruits, cherries. flavor, malts. chocolate, some hops as it warms got a nice touch of alcohol, raisins, plums, honey. enjoyed this beer.

Bottle. It pours a medium dark with nice red highlights, a tan head and some lacing. It has good roast/smoky flavors with chocolate notes. Medium body. Nice beer.

The aroma of chocolate rises to great the nose. A minute head sits upon a solution that is the color of bitter-sweet chocolate. The mouth is introduced to this beer through the infused flavors of chocolate and malt, but these are quickly overtaken by a smokey taste that won’t leave easily.

Bottle (courtesy of Brentfresh): Poured a pitch-black color porter with a medium off-white creamy head with good retention. Aroma of sweet roasted malt with a lingering bitterness. Taste is also a nice mix between roasted malt and some bitterness at the end. Better then average porter though nothing to write home about.

Completely, utterly dark brown, nearly black in most light. Thin, wavering light tan cap sits atop. Keeps a thin collar and the lacing is placed in minimal small ink blobs. Fair, clean aroma of faint raisin bread and mild milk chocolate. Taste is lightly soured and mildly sweet with milk chocolate and has a slight undertone of fruityness with vanilla overtures and a slight roasted grain huskyness at the edges. Notions of cherry and cookie dough sweetness find their way in with ease. Mostly active in the front and middle areas where the finish doesn’t provide much of anything in a robust quality that it should. Nice smooth feel; clean, creamy, only slightly roasted and dry. Very tender on the palate in that realm. Close to medium bodied with a maintained smooth texture and low ended carbonation leaning towards a sweeter/fruity tilt in the overall character throughout its experience. A tamer experience for an American style porter, a bit more robustness overall and a bigger active finish and this could be much more substantial. As is, its still not bad. Easily handled and drinkable, just a tad tiresome and drab.

Draught. Pours ruby black with thin, beige head. The aroma is brown sugar, malt, caramel, and cream. Robust body. There are all kinds of flavors here: coffee, chocolate, caramel, raisin, brown sugar, and even something like grape juice. They blend surprisingly well. This has the complexity of something I would expect to have much higher alcohol. I’m impressed.

Did you know Noah (of the Ark kind) was the first drunk of the Bible? I guess in seeing Exodus, I thought Moses, which somehow brought me to Noah. The beer was fairly priced and fairly good. I urge you not to build a vineyard, get drunk off your ass and pass out on your tent floor only to be discovered by your 3 children the next morning (like Noah). The Exodus comes a little later.