Tommyknocker Cocoa Porter Winter Warmer

Brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery
Style: Porter
Idaho Springs, Colorado USA

Single bottle purchase from Binny-apostrophe-s Beverage Depot in Orland Park, Illinois, United States of America. It pours a very deep brown with a smallish tan head. Holding the brew up to the light, I noted minute particulates held in listless suspension. The aroma is quite chocolatey with some burnt malt in the background. The flavor sees the addition of some vanilla and tar. The finish is sweet with an odd dash of sourness. Single bottle purchases are a nice thing.

Pours dark brown with a minimal head. Deep chocolate aroma. Flavor is sweet with a nice chocolate and vanilla blend. Finish is somewhat odd though. Sort of medicinal.

This beer pours a relatively dark brown with a light tan head. It is dark looking, but not too dark. The aroma is very light but slightly roasty. The flavor is what you might expect from the name, sweet and like chocolate cocoa. This beer could use a little more bitterness to finish off the flavor. The beer leaves a little to be desired in the mouth as it does not have much body. Overall this is not a bad beer, but there are definitely better chocolate porters.

Sampled at the Great Decatur Beer Tasting Festival in Georgia on 10/18/08. Cloudy dark brown. Dark chocolate aroma. Taste of sweet malt, milk chocolate and oatmeal. Technically may not be the greatest beer out there and a lot of people poo-pooing it here, but mmmmm chocolate.

Very dark beer with faint mahogany hues when held up against the light. Tan foamy head. Nose of chocolate, malt powder, and caramels. Strong chocolate, cocoa powder flavors, with a little chocolate ice cream sensation. A lot of caramel and honey sweetness, with an almost cinnomon spice. This beer gets better as it warms, with a long powdery chocolate finish. The underlying beer does not seem very strong, but the flavor additions make it an interesting seasonal sipper.

The pour is a dark copper brown, definitely allows light. Low carbonation and it produces a thin frothy light tan head. The nose is definitely chocolaty, sweet, grainy, nesquick powder. The flavor is sweet, chocolate, chocolate powder, roast, earthy, not too great. The palate shows low carbonation.

This is one of my first of the Christmas season beers. The cocoa is certainly noticeable. I mistakenly thought chocolate as I prepared to drink it, but it is definitely cocoa. There is not overpowering sweetness. An ok beer doing what I would expect pretty much, but not anything great.

Pours dark amber with minimal head. Strong caramel aroma with mild burning. Stronger chocolate flavor with a sweet clean finish.