Upland Bad Elmers Porter

Brewed by Upland Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Bloomington, Indiana USA

This is a very good beer that is very flavorful but not as heavy and bitter as Guinness or other dark beers tend to be, I would highly recommend it to others. No aftertaste that I noticed. Can’t really speak to aroma cause I can’t smell very well. Still trying to find out where to get it locally in Cincinnati. Would be great draft too. LOL. I am Dherbert53@aol.com. Thanks

I sampled Upland Bad Elmers Porter on draft at Yogi’s in Bloomington. This was a great drinking beer. I enjoyed the taste and color, however, I was not happy with the aftertaste. I could not stop sensing the taste of chewing tobacco.

Mark shared this one, but I am not sure I should say thanks. I love porters, but this brings shame to the style. Bad Elmer’s is certainly a good name, Bad Elmer’s Glue, maybe. The body was black with a light sand colored head. The aroma has glazed donuts with some peaches. There are also some almonds with a strong chemical background. The taste has some sweet, nasty canned peaches. There are also some peanuts. Wow, what was going on with this light, strangely flavored brew?

12 oz. bottle courtesy of a trade with BBB63. Pours just about black with a moderate tan head that faded to a film by mid-glass and left partial lacing. Light pleasant aroma of roasted malt and coffee. The flavor is lightly roasted malt, very thin chocolate, and wet cardboard. Light-medium bodied. If I was going to use one word to sum up this beer, I think it would be timid.

Pours near black with reddish hues and a mostly receding wispy tan head. Aroma of coffee, oxidized roast, dark bready, plums. Taste is foamy roast, roast bitterness, light caramel and cardboard. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with soft carbonation. Not too impressive, thin tasting.

Sampled from 12-oz bottle pours a near opaque dark brown brew with a fast dissolving light tan head that leaves behind a fine film and tan ring. Aroma of dark chocolate, roasted black malt, a touch of roasted nuts, and brown sugar, Taste is medium to full bodied, very light carbonation, smooth, slightly sweet with a dark roasted malt and chocolate flavor. Finish has a slight nutty dry aftertaste with flavors of chocolate and dry roasted malt. There is more flowery hop flavor and hardly no bitterness.

This beer is a mostly clear dark brown color with a medium thin and creamy beige head that diminishes steadily. Spotty lacing. Aroma of earthy malt and touches of chocolate and nuts. Medium, clean body with malt, nut and pine flavors. The finish is short and nutty with a burnt malt aftertaste. All in all this is a pretty standard Porter.

12oz bottle-pours a big foamy tan head and black color with effervescence. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate/cocoa, some dark fruit. Taste is dark malt-chocolate/cocoa/coffee, some dark fruit, some hops bite. Ok carbonation. Coffee aftertaste. Nice but not my style.