Third Street Aleworks Old Redwood Porter

This porter has deep, fairly rich colour, flavour, and body. This is (or was, I haven’t asked if it’s still made, but I haven’t seen it offered in about a year or more) a tasty, fairly heavy-duty, but well-balanced, smooth porter with good body. It has definite, strong coffee-chocolate flavours, but these are not overpowering and with a rasoty/malty flavour it has good balance.

On draught at GABF. Nice dry, dark malt flavor, light-to-medium-body, with a clean, dry finish. Nice standout in the crowd.

Deepest brown pour, wearing a mostly lasting light tan head. Slightly watery nose hints at chocolate malt and straight roasted coffee beans without detour. Looking for more complexity in mouth doesn’t bring more comfort, a touch of nutskin may be noticeable with effort, but we’re mostly left with typical dark malts flavours, but the fruitiness and a smooth mouthfeel that is thin-medium with a lingering wateriness in the mostly short finish.

Tap. Dark brown with a thin brown head. Strong presence of coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt. Creamy on the tongue, but thinner than I expected.

On cask @ 3rd st poured a translucent brown with a brown head. Aromas of roasted malt and coffee. Smooth creamy mothfeel. Fl;avors of coffee and dark chocolate

Tap. Dark brown with loads of roasted chocolate and malt. I also had the cask version which had a great head.

Tasting Notes from Fall 2000: Very caramelly. A fairly traditional (as the name suggests) porter