Tröegs Dead Reckoning Porter

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

12oz bottle poured into a tulip glass produced a medium tan head with almost black body. Toasted malts, chocolate, and hop aroma. Taste of roasted coffee, caramel, and chocolate with a piney bitterness in the finish. A very nice, smooth, creamy ale from Troeg’s.

12oz bottle brought back with me from my trip to Philly. Pours a very deep brown, almost black body with a finger-width, creamy, brownish tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves lots of lacing. Aroma is fairly hoppy with a distinct crystal maltiness. An even caramel and chocolate malt as well as a lightly acidic roast. The hops are slightly herbal with a minty lemon. The flavor starts with a very light sweetness before some piney hops come in. Almost instantaneously, the crystal, caramel, and chocolate malts come in along with lots of roasts. An underlying citrus, hoppy bitterness guides this into the finish where it ends with plenty of roasts, a chocolate-crystal-caramel malty mixture, and a moderate bitterness. The hops and roasts grow slightly into the aftertaste with a bit of a minty fruitiness that lasts for a long duration. Dry after a thinner body up front, but it grows towards the finish. Overall, a hoppy porter. Citrusy hops, sweeter malts, and plenty of roasts balance the big flavor nicely. The body is a bit thin, but this is quite tasty.

bottle thanks to TreborWhip!, pours black with a medium tan head. Some roasted malt and chocolate, but what dominates the nose is a nice, fresh, in your face hop aroma.......really nice. Smooth nutty malt with notes of chocolate and roasty smoked coffee beans. But the shining star is the hops. Mildly piney, almost floral in being delicate but pronounced enough to give a bite. The mouth is creamy to all hell, leaving a rich tan mustache with each sip. This stuff is nice, almost a style in itself. Drinkability through the roof.

Bottled. Lactic, toasty, bitter aroma, squash and granite. The flavor is burly and quite bitter, metallic, lacking the subtle malt nuances of a good, low grav porter. A long, chocolatey finish is the highlight of this brew.

On tap at Cambridge Common, Cambridge MA, October 2009. Lovely dark brown colour. Good condition. Appealing mixed hop and roast malt aroma. Burnt malt joined by dark chocolate on the palate. Tart hops return on the finish. The hop presence is greater than the norm for a porter but the elements combine very well. Excellent stuff.

12 oz. bottle from Total Wine in Chesapeake. Very dark brown pour with a thick off-white head. Surprisingly upfront citrus hop aroma (not too overpowering just surprising that it is what is first detected). As this sits for a minute or two some dark chocolate and coffee roasted malt is detected. Rich roasted dark chocolate flavor with a clean hop finish. This is a very good porter.

Poured out of the bottle into the glass is a dark muddy brown with a slightly reddish hue. The head that appears is pretty nice actually. The whole beer looks like a root beer float. Frothy tan head, that dissipates slowly into a creamy mess on top of the liquid. Aroma has heavily roasted malts for sure. some soft subtle sweetness from the caramel. And noticeable alcohol. Palate is full, rich and roasted. Love the flavour of this beer. Big and robust and super filling.

Cask... Black/Deep ruby with a tan head and leaves amazing lacing... Medium bodied, very creamy on the beer engine... aroma is dominated by roasted malts with notes of citrusy hops... Flavor follows suit with the roastiness being more subtle and the hoppiness shining through... Not quite as hoppy as some of the other new age hoppy porters, but very good...