Draft at the brewpub. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and coffee flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish with some hints of coffee and hops in the aftertaste.

Not sure if this is the place for this rating. I think they’ve taken the juniper out. Poured black with thin fast dissipating beige head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate and malt. More chocolate in the flavour, with coffee and caramel notes. Lingering flinish, coffee and hop. A very worthy porter

I had this beer in one of its early forms when I visited Portland. When I ordered it and the waitress asked me if I wanted it "regular or from the nitrous tap" I thought to myself, "I am coming back to this place." When I tasted it, I wanted to cry. I know the current version isn’t exactly the same, but I just don’t care. I do not go to Portland without eating at the Alameda Brewhouse. I even bought a T-shirt last time I was there (because I’m nerdy like that) and was wearing it downtown in Seattle a couple weeks later. A guy on the street says to me, "you from Portland?" I say no. "Good beer though, isn’t it?" he says. Ahhhh, the power of beer.

On tap at the brewery. Not sure if the version I had was the Juniper one, I didn’t pick that up in the flavor. This was the best beer I had at the brewery, nice roasty porter, smooth chocolate flavor up front, dry lingering bitter chocolate finish.

Cask. A pitch black beer with a brown shine and no head. The aroma is sweet with notes of soy sauce, malt, and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes o fsoy sauce as well as lighter notes of juniper berries, and a slight acidity from the roasted malt, leading to a dry bitter and woody finish. The mouthfeel is very smooth.