Tröegs Scratch 2

Formerly brewed at Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

Pours a brown with lots of ruby amber highlights and a medium bubbly/creamy off white lacing head. Aroma of toast, chocolate, nuts, hints of caramel, Flavors of lightly toasted malts, some chocolate, hints of caramel, low hop flavor with hints of bitterness. A tad bit thing.

Date: 08/19/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Ticker Tasting

clear dark red, fine beige head, sweet citrus hop aroma with light chocolate, light chocolate flavor with a hint of nuttyness, touch of roasted bitterness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Bottle... Clear, deep orange ale with a small, fizzy, off-white head. Earthy, herbal aroma of chocolate, almonds and raw-hide with a whiff of smoke. The flavor is balanced nicely; caramel, toffee and citric hops. Crisp and refreshing for a porter. Medium-bodied with medium carbonation. Short, crisp, mostly clean finish. I’m not quite sure where the brewers were going with this one, but their efforts resulted in a mellow, very drinkable porter. Thanks go out to mgumby10 for breaking out the bottle at boboski’s!

From SecretSanta! Pours a fairly clear brown with a small light tan head. Weird smell. Smells of some grassy hops, sweet dark malts, and mild nuts. The taste is a little bit watery on the palate, a good amount of nuts and roasty malts. Really mild chocolate comes through up front, but turns into roasty bitterness in the finish, and lingers in the aftertaste. A little unusual for this style. The hops definitely are detectable in the aroma and the flavor. Cant say I cared for it that much.

Bottle thanks to MrBendo: Pours a transparent dark copper amber with a well-lacing frothy tan head. Has a lightly sweet doughy caramel malt nose with some nutty notes. Starts with some nice light caramel malty sweetness and earthy bittering hop and roasted nutty flavor. Seems a lot more like a nut brown ale to me, but still pretty tasty.

Nigga george looked out on this one, dark red, drank as a thin porter with some funky tastes very drinkable to me was well enjoyed. a very interesting beer

12oz bottle, from Capone’s (Norristown, PA). Poured deep brown with a slightly reddish hue. Ample khaki head. Sweet malt aroma with some cocoa and hops. Flavor was burnt malt, cocoa powder, with some nuts and citric hops. Body was unexpectedly thin. Long, roasted malt finish. Not bad, but I expected more.

12 oz bottle from Somed vis GandGKevin - thanks to both of you! Clear coppery brown with a rocky tan head. Odd nose - fruity and lightly roasted malt, a touch of astringency. Flavor is just as strange, fruity coffee and chocolate, some medium cocoa powder bitter, some bitter nuttiness. Powdery bitter cocoa finish. Some light citrus flavors in the tail end. Strange, but pretty tasty.