NOLA Prytania Imperial Porter
overall
47
style
 | bottling |  | on tap |  |  |
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Prytania is a dramatic street. It follows much the same path as its more famous sibling, St. Charles Avenue, just a block over. Its mansions are equally grand, its restaurants and shops equally beloved. Towards one end, there’s the Prytania Theatre, the 100-year-old, single-screen cinema where Walker Percy’s moviegoer watched movies, as did Ignatius J. Reilly along with countless less fictional people. It’s a dramatic street. Which is why we borrowed its name for our most dramatic beer. Brewed in the traditional British style, our Prytania Imperial Porter is big, bold and rich, reminiscent of high-quality bittersweet chocolate both in color (very dark but not black) and in sweetness (not overly sweet but not unsweet). Perfect to sip outside on a brisk winter day. Perhaps a stroll down Prytania Street. But watch out for the Imperial-caliber ABV lest your stroll turn into a stumble and things get a little too dramatic.
Prytania is a dramatic street. It follows much the same path as its more famous sibling, St. Charles Avenue, just a block over. Its mansions are equally grand, its restaurants and shops equally beloved. Towards one end, there’s the Prytania Theatre, the 100-year-old, single-screen cinema where Walker Percy’s moviegoer watched movies, as did Ignatius J. Reilly along with countless less fictional people. It’s a dramatic street. Which is why we borrowed its name for our most dramatic beer. Brewed in the traditional British style, our Prytania Imperial Porter is big, bold and rich, reminiscent of high-quality bittersweet chocolate both in color (very dark but not black) and in sweetness (not overly sweet but not unsweet). Perfect to sip outside on a brisk winter day. Perhaps a stroll down Prytania Street. But watch out for the Imperial-caliber ABV lest your stroll turn into a stumble and things get a little too dramatic.
3.5
UPDATED: MAR 13, 2019 Can at trailer. Pours black with tan foam. Nice dark roast, dark fruit, coffee chocolate aromas. Smooth mouthfeel with soft carbonation. Dry dark chocolate flavor with dark fruit, coffee---nicely bitter burnt malt finish___ tasty
3.7
UPDATED: MAR 1, 2019 Pours cola brown, aroma of roasty malts, light taste of malts upfront, mild smoke at the end, low carbonation, tasty, tap
3.6
UPDATED: FEB 25, 2019 Half growler. Coal black brew with a half inch of creamy foam topping. Nose is cocoa nibs and dark toasted bread. Flavors of cocoa, doughy bread and blackberry with a touch of cream. Medium body has smooth medium carbonation and a decent balance. The cocoa flavor seems a bit overdone, but otherwise pretty tasty.
3.3
UPDATED: FEB 21, 2019 Can. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Roasted malt, chocolate, molasses, fudge, bit of smoke. Pretty good, but weird aftertaste.
3.7
UPDATED: JAN 30, 2019 Dark pour, finger of tan head. Nose is coco and Graham cracker. Middle is light coffee, dark kilned malt, molasses, touch of wood. Finish is woody, smoky, and malty. Surprisingly light on its toes for the ABV, but we will see mid glass.
2.1
UPDATED: JUL 19, 2018 Sweet chocolate notes, nice hoppyness, followed by a very off hairspray like taste. This was a 6 pack of cans.
I wouldn't recommend or buy again.
3.5
Aroma nice roasted malt. Clean burnt toast flavor. Well done porter. Thin fading head.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3.7
From tap at NOLA Brewing, New Orleans. Aroma is roasty with caramel, chocolate, liquorice, touch of fudge and nuts. Medium sweet flavour with a firm roasty bitterness. Body is medium. Nicely roasty Porter.
3.9
Can
Dark brown with a tan head.
Cocoa/chocolate aroma, nutty roast malts
Flavor is nutty, roasty chocolate with the sweetness balanced by some roast malt bitterness.
Nice
3.4
Good, with a hefty amount of chocolate notes backed up by modest hints of dark fruits and British yeast. Apple and slight roasted mocha notes perk up on the back end, but also an odd wet bread funk reminiscent of, well, finger paint. Not overpowering, but enough to make me realize the more the pint warms, the less enamored I get. Stays appreciably dry, though, and the creamy texture hides most of the ABV.
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