Thomas Creek Pump House Porter

Brewed by Thomas Creek Brewery
Style: Porter
Greenville, South Carolina USA

Cask at Atlanta Cask Ale Festival. Oak aging here is subtle. Aroma is more roasted coffee and malt. The hops here are a little more in balance with the overall beer. Bitter grapefruit and citrus hop flavors.
Earlier Rating: 1/29/2007 Total Score: 3.5
On cask at Atlanta Cask Ale. Great color and light smooth drinkability. I got aromas of coffee and tastes of bittersweet chocolate with a little sugary residue as it finished.

Cask ale tasting at Sweetwater. Poured a dark brown. Aroma of heavy malts and some hop. Taste is very nice, with a good amount of sweet malt and a hoppy bitter finish. Very easy drinking. Palate is very nice for this porter.

Nice mellow chocolat flavors. Smooth and creamy. Bitterness is just about right and the drinkability of spot on.

on tap-pours a brown head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-licorice. Taste is dark malt-licorice/chocolate, secondary hops. OK/good carbonation.

On cask at the 1/27/07 Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting: Pours a mostly opaque with dark brown edges and a thin ring of tannish head. Aroma of sweet dark malt with some plum and raisiny complexity. Body starts with a dark caramely malty sweet flavor and some toasty notes with a good amount of dark chocolate in the finish. A nice porter.

Pours opaque black with brown head. Aroma is of sweet malts and coffee. Flavor is malty, brown sugar, with some coffee.

Had this on cask at the Atlanta Cask Ale Fest. Pours a dark, dark brown. The aroma has a distinct roastiness to it. I’d like it a little beefed up in the body, though.

Draught. Pours opaque ruby with a brown head. The aroma is pleasantly malty. The flavor has some moderate hops, faint nuttiness, and bitter chocolate (which manifests more as the beer gets to room temperature). Not bad, not bad at all.