Third Street Aleworks Black Cat Porter

Brewed by Third Street Aleworks
Style: Porter
Santa Rosa, California USA

From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 13/10/2007 Fruit and roast aromas. Black fruity and a little rich on the palate. Some dryness in a crisp burnt roast finish.

Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

Draft at the brewpub. Toasted malt aroma. Maybe a chocolate hint. Near opaque brown/black color with a tan head. Medium body with very smooth carbonation. The flavor reminds of the old Guinness (this is a heavy porter). It’s a very toasted porter with a nice amount of bitter in the finish.

On cask @ Third Street poured a translucent brownish black with a small lasting amber head. Aromas of roasted malt, coffee, bitter chocolate and licorice. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of bitter chocolate, a hint of coffee and vanilla with a dry bitter finish.

Draft at the brewpub. Poured an opaque black color. Head was thin and off white. Not much aroma other than a hint of wet dog. Not a good smell. Dry and relatively flavorless other than subdued roasted malt. One of my least favorite.

Draft. Blackish beer with a tan head. Roasty/coffee aroma. Roasty flavor with coffee. Medium body. LIngering roast. A bit too much roast for my liking.

Cask at the brewpub! Nose is roasty coffee with a chocolate hint. Very dark cherry brown with a big beige glass lacing head. Flavor is coffee, chocolate and very light hop bitterness.

Potent roasted malt nose, dark brown color. Charcoal notes throughout with a espresso end. Thinish but OK for a porter. One-dimensional (roasted malt) but fun to drink.