Cambridge Charles River Porter

Brewed by Cambridge Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Draft at the Brewpub. Pours a black body with a yellow tainted head. Roasted dry malt coffee tones. Some light caramel malt, floral hoppiness, and toast. Lactose then a sharp coffee esk burnt malt with a light licorice finish. Nice!

(Draught) Pours a dark brown body with a medium dense tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, and light coffee. Flavor of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, and toffee.

a porter that is just a porter and not a half assed stout. Great session beer here. Roasted malt with some espresso notes. Good bitter finish. good hearty beer.

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear dark brown color with a average, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090806]

Cask at GBBF. Dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma of dark fruit, roasted malt and licorice. Dry and fruity flavoour with loads of roast character.

Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 06/08/2009 Fruity roast aroma. Black smooth on the palate strong in alcohol and hoppy with a little bitterness in a crisp coffee roast finish.

A Mes rate. Cask at GBBF.
Almost black with a decent tan head. Fairly standard chocolate drive porter. Nicely roasted malt, some caramel, plenty of dark fruit. Straight down the line. Standard but decent.

Cask at GBBF 2009. Black, dark brown edges, thin lasting dark beige head. Good choc aroma, very dry bitter dark choc in mouth. Quite fruity in swallow, some raison and dark cherry, bit of ginger. Good/solid.