UPDATED: APR 13, 2024 How: bottle from pint. Cold room temp. BB:05/SEP/2025 Head: two fingers, off white. Colour: almost black Aroma: nuts, coffee, chocolate, caramel, dark fruits. Taste: thin to medium body, soft to average carbonation. Taste follows aroma. Medium to long aftertaste like initial taste. A bit thin, but otherwise really nice porter.

UPDATED: MAR 16, 2024 12 oz. can, 6.0% ABV, Packaged on: 03NOV23 AROMA: Sweet with strong scents of brown sugar and toasted malt, which is then followed by hints of chocolate and coffee. The aroma is very enticing! APPEARANCE: Pours an opaque black with a very tall, dirty-tan head that dissipates very slowly with excellent lacing. In a clear, Pilsner glass it looks like all proper Porters should, but so rarely do. TASTE: Moderately sweet with flavors of dark chocolate, coffee, toasted malt, and caramel. The finish is slightly sweet with the caramel and coffee being the last flavors to fade away. There is also a bit of sharpness/tinge throughout that I find quite pleasing as it helps to balance the sweetness. MOUTHFEEL: Full-bodied with a somewhat smooth texture that has just a touch of stickiness at the end. Carbonation seems average. OVERALL: About the only 'gripe' I can come up with is that, for a Porter, I find it to be a little on the sweet side. But I ain't complaining, because it's one delicious beer with great visual and odoriferous qualities! I will definitely be buying this on a regular basis.

UPDATED: JAN 26, 2024 The beer has a very strong and pleasant aroma, you can clearly feel roasted malt with strong, almost black roasted coffee. The color is pleasant, caramel-chocolate. The taste is clearly expressed, cognac-wine, with a very pleasant malt taste, and with a brutal Scandinavian note in the form of a sharp-bitter, but pleasant finale.

UPDATED: JAN 16, 2024 $NZ 7.50 for 330 ml bottle from Beer Cellars (NZ) online : Dark copper-brown colour , nice foamy head ... mild aroma of toasty malt , coffee smell ... medium body , smooth , touch of coffee , smokey taste , clean , bitter & balanced : A mild beer , good quaffing

UPDATED: JAN 13, 2024 Bevuta in bottiglia da 33 cl a casa del Califfo alla serata Haggis Aroma maltato e tostato, un po' dolce, caffè d'orzo Bel colore nero, schiuma buona ma poco persistente Gusto acidulo, tostato, bruschetta di pane alle olive nere Beva nata pronta cfgpP

UPDATED: DEC 11, 2023 Porter classica, colore ebano, poca schiuma color cappuccino e poco persistente, aroma e sapore di caffè, malto tostato con finale secco.

UPDATED: AUG 29, 2023 On tap while dining on the alfresco deck of the Brickhouse Food & Drink in White Bear Lake, MN. as a 12 oz. serving to a tulip, showing a black/brown hue with some amber highlighting, tan froth to a persistent ring, light film, and spray-like cling to the lacing. The nose was malty, roasted, cocoa, moderate espresso, mild caramel sweetness, and slight toffee. Medium bodied, the taste was as the aroma notes, maybe a little less expressive, but successfully carbonated, with roasted & earthy astringency, and a bit of dryness to the finish that modestly lingered. Nicely complemented the cuisine.

UPDATED: AUG 20, 2023 Foodery: pours dark brownish with beige head. Aroma is coffee, robust maltiness. Taste is lightly bitter, chocolatey. Not bad.

UPDATED: AUG 7, 2023 On tap at Dalakofinn, Mvatyn, Iceland. Pour is dark, one finger head. Aroma of toasted caramel malts. Thick roasted coffee, caramel malt and hints of licorice and wine. A little bit bitter even. Good.

UPDATED: AUG 6, 2023 Can (born 5/25/22, drink by 7/25/23) pour shared by Steve. It's a virtually opaque dark brown with finger-width beige head with good retention. Aroma is toasted malt--a bit earthy/twiggy--minerals, toffee and a bit of coffee. Taste is earthy roasted malt, toffee, roasted coffee a bit on the charred side. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium, smooth, finish is quite bitter. Overall, aroma shows promise but taste if overly roasted, charred, bitter.