Twisted Pine Northstar Imperial Porter

Pours a very dark brown, nearly black in color. Smell is very roasted malts and nice deep, dark chocolate. Taste is more of the chocolate, roasted malt and some molasses. This is a very good porter. Medium to full on the mouthfeel. This has many characteristics of a stout. This is well done and very flavorful. Good porter.

[1299-20080418] 1pt6floz bottle. Mild beery water aroma with roasted leaves. Dark brown black body with a medium-lasting creamy light tan head. Dark coffee chocolate roast flavour with a long sweet finish and no noticeable alcohol at first. Thin full body. Expected to be a little flat but nice overall, doesn’t taste like 8%.
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Bomber. Poured deep brown with a rather short-lived cap of beige head. The aroma picked up drier molasses, licorice, and dark chocolate upfront with a warm overall disposition.. lot of roast going on (perhaps a tad too much). The flavor had roasted molasses and darker chocolate at the core with an odd greener bitterness around.. sticky finish with a bit of woody, resiny alcohol over molasses and dark chocolate. Medium-bodied with a strange roasty, scratchy feel on the palate.. hard to tell where the carbonation was at.. got quite bitter at the finish with herbal notes, caramel, and coffee. This was solid, but missing something to make it great.

Solid dark color... brown head. Roasted smell... first sip: super roasty taste with sweet malt. Chocolate. warm... interesting on the tongue. VERY enjoyable!

Bottle. Body-nearly opaque cola like body with a thin ring of bubble, almost still looking. Nose-woody, fig raisin, stale, woody, cream coffee, tobacco, diet cola, cold pressed coffee, decent strong porter nose. Taste-unsweet creamed coffee, coffee grounds, unsweet portion of crystal malts, Whopper powder without the chocolate, perfect sweetness, dry wood floor, good malt, black cherry. Excellent representation of an Imperial Porter.