Tröegs Scratch 2

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

Pours brown with a tan head. Smells of roasted malt, molasses, some caramel, raisins, some figs. Tastes sweet and malty with a rich velvety mouthfeel. Excellent balance of roastiness to sweetness.

Courtesy of Hopdog. Thank you, sir. Toasty, roasty malt aroma that leans toward fresh baked dark bread rather than chocolate or sweet coffee. The body is mostly black though it pours brown and holds a lasting thumb thick, bubbly, tan head. First sip is black roasted coffee, dry toasted malt and grains. There are suggestions of dark fruit, but they are fleeting. This is mostly black roasted coffee and burnt/toasted malt. And I love it. Has an intense burnt bitterness in the finish. It’s a touch thin for a robust porter, which the abv leans to, but thicker than any brown porter I can think of. Very nice and underrated in my opinion.

Light chocolate and caramel aroma, ruby brown in color with a nice, rocky off-white head. Very creamy. Lots of chocolate in the flavor, mild roast, and some sweet cherries. I am enjoying…Thanks docster!

This is part of the Scratch series and is the porter which debuted in June. It can only be purchased at the brewery. It starts with a nice chestnut-laden caramel soaked flavor with a decent garden-like hoppy aspect (55 IBUs). This has that nutty-hoppy fusion present in other Troegs beers. It starts off as rather dry but is an easy to drink porter. It is not as dark and silky as other porters but has some chocolate malt flavors which are pretty pleasing. The aftertaste has a coppery coffee feel. This one doesn’t seem very sweet compared to, say, Anchor Porter. Nothing over the top here but damn tasty IMHO! Scratch 3 will be a Triple so time to hit Harrisburg again!

Bottling No. 2-2007

2/12/2008: Tröegs Scratch 2 (Porter) has a chesnut brown color with a pillowy tan head. This beer smells like ground coffee beans with a large dose of earthy hops. It also has touches of chocolate and citrus hops. The flavor is quite roasty and a lot like black coffee with undertones of some chocolate. Some roasty bitterness creeps in toward the finish and really works well with the other flavors. Each sip seems to reveal new flavors and additional complexity. This is a nicely crafted robust porter that has a medium-light to medium body (I would have preferred more body). This is a pretty good porter, and reminds me of a beer I made last Winter!

12 fl. oz. bottle (5.9% ABV) from hopdog. Thanks again Steve! I appreciate it. Rating #38 for this beer...

Poured black with a creamy brown head. Aroma of chocolate and caramel. More chocolate flavors than anything.

Beer pack from one of my loyal patrons. Good nose with a rich toasted, almost sweet aroma. Big roasted barley taste with a smooth finish.

Poured watery black with a brown head. Aroma of chocolate and caramel. Light chocolate and caramel flavor. Easy drinker.