Berkshire Draymans Porter

Brewed by Berkshire Brewing Co.
Style: Porter
South Deerfield, Massachusetts USA

(bottle shared by Skyview, thanks!) Pours light brown with little to no head present. Aroma of chocolate brownies, roasted malt, and some vanilla too. Quite nice. The taste follows with chocolate, roasted malt, espresso, and the brownies make a repeat appearance. Mouthfeel is medium and carbonation is restrained. Really good stuff.

From a trade last year. Chocolate and roast. Milky taste as well. Nice dark color. Little bit of sweetness lingers. Very well done.

22oz Bottle. Purchased at Wakefield Liquors - Wakefield, RI. Deep entrancing dark malt aroma. Cocoa nibs and toasted hazlenuts. Colored mink-fur brown, a bit murky, with a solid thick swirl of creamy tan above and a ruby glow. This beer is rich and satisfying. Restrained roasted characters allow other dark malts to span the color-flavor spectrum. Chocolate ganache, candied walnuts, brownies, fudge, dark dried figs, and delicate booziness. This is a penultimate brown porter for me, more than a boring-Brown and less than a simple-Stout, somewhere in between. Great malt flavors, delicious freshness and great palate balance. Nice work.

Pours brown with tan head, nice sweet chocolate aroma. Taste is coffee and chocolate, with sweet chocolate predominating with a sweet full bodied finish. Very nice porter, full of flavor!

Bomber. Pours a dark cola brown to black with one finger off-white head that settles quickly. Aroma is sweet and chocolaty with notes of caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, grain, malt, milk chocolate, light roast. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of light coffee and roast, milk chocolate, caramel, light brown sugar, molasses, hints of spice and dark fruit. Medium body with a light roast finish. Nice ale.

Pours a dark brown. Not quite opaque. Light tan head rises. Creamy smooth with decent staying power. Roasted aroma, dark fruits and chocolate. Lighter flavor. Bit of cocoa and sweet malts. Slight hint of hop bitterness. Very smooth texture. Creamy and coats. Perfect carbonation. Silk. Overall, not bad. Could use a little more flavor, a little more up front. Very drinkable.

A great simple porter. Dark color and off white head. An aroma of chocolate and roasted malt mixed in with some caramel and wood chips. Smooth light body and ends with a roasted coffee bitterness.

In short: A nice highly roasted chocolaty/coffee stout-porter. Very good even if not original.
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed relatively fresh a two months after purchase
The look: Very dark brown body topped by a medium tan head with medium retention
In long: Pleasant nose of roasted wood and chocolate. Taste is very roasted (lots of burnt toasts) with chocolate covered brownies, coffee and some caramel. A little floury sensation and. Hops come through with a woody character. Finish is very bitter but this is not hop bitterness, this is a dry bitterness coming from the high roasted level. The beer is also very astringent, a little too much so. Nothing really original here. But the beer is very tasty and I like highly roasted stouts because they are dryer and therefore more sessionnable to me. Draymen, we don’t really have those any more, they have been replaced by trucker drivers, that’s more pollution in the air but less shit on the streets. Except for New-Jersey who probably have both.