Alaskan Smoked Porter

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: Smoked
Juneau, Alaska USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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poured dark and little to no head from 22 oz bottle 2010 bottle. scents of smokey wood chips led right into the same taste. sweet taste in the porter and smokey flavors. texture in the mouth is a smooth crispy caramel and chocolate flavor also. I am lucky to been to Juneau and need to head back soon

22 0z bottle. Poured dark opaque brown. Strong aroma of smoke. Smelled like a campfire. Taste of dark burnt malt. A little bacon flavor.

2010 vintage 22oz bottle. This pours nearly pitch black with some mahogany at the edges and topped by a thin, tan colored head of foam that quickly recedes and rejoins the body below. The aroma is really nice and starts off quite smokey and meaty just like a smoker filled with barbeque. I get some of the salt cured pork in there as well. Further inhalation reveals some semi sweet and dark chocolate malt, caramel, oak, and roast. There is some balancing bitterness on the back end as well. The flavor follows with the dry, meaty smoke and wood up front followed by the dark chocolate and sweet caramel malts which add some nice sweetness to all the smoke and roast. As the beer warms the smoke mellows out and lets all the dark cocoa and malts shine through. The palate is nearly full bodied and viscous with ample carbonation that leads to a dry, smokey finish. This isn’t as smokey as earlier vintages that I have had, but still a great beer nonetheless. Awesome stuff.

750 ml Bottle 2009. Aroma: Bandaids, dark, intense smoky BBQ sauce, bitter coffee. Flavor: Bitter coffee, smoke, bitter chocolate though with smooth body. Comment: Hoping that the bandaid aroma blows off. Perhaps this bottle just didn’t age well.

22 oz. from Chuck’s. Had this at SIB 2010 and thought it was undrinkable. Bought a bottle today and it’s not as bad as I remember. Definitely smoky. Solid robust stout once you get past the smoke. Not sure it’s 99th percentile good but it’s up there.

Bottle (from the november 2005 RB-tasting at Dixens place - notes have been damaged by flooding of my basement, but this was such an insane tasting for me as I was new to such massive tastings, so I gave up on the detailed notes quite early). Smoke! Delicious smoked beer! All thats readable from the notes...

2009 bomber. Dark brown with creamy tan head.Roasted malts, smoke and bacon (think mesquite or hickory dry smoked bacon), caramel. Thin, well carbonated, smoky and meaty, hint of sweetness but well balanced bitterness as well, quite dry, lingering smoke and meat on the palate. Quite interesting - and worth trying.

Shared a bomber with some friends. Poured dark brown with some tan head. I picked up the smoke in the aroma, but in no way thought it overpowering. I had aged it a year or two, so maybe that mellowed it a bit. Flavor was of an excellent malty porter with a bit of smoke. I wasn’t sure I’d like a smoked beer, but I had no issues with this one. I picked up the bomber on a business trip to Denver. If I could get it in Indiana, I’d be happy to drink more of this.

2010 Bottle. Fantastic. 8 Wired Big Smoke blew me away but I think this is better again ! Glad to have a few more bottles put away. Pours an oily black with a thick tan head. Never enjoyed the bacon note on smoked beers a great deal and this is fairly the same. A little better than most. Slight bacon and wood with roasted malts and dark fruits. Smokiness isn’t overpowering in the taste at all. Constant peat and wood throughout. Fantastic beer

Pours an almost oily looking color. Used oil. thin off-white, creamy head. Fades quickly and leaves ample lacing behind. Let’s get a whiff of this. Hmm. Smoke. Didn’t see that one coming. A little malt and a bit of alder. Oily. Tastes much like the aroma at first. Smoky and smoky. A bit dry, but ample sweetness to balance it out. A very viscous mouth feel. A good mixture of dryness mixed with the sweetness in the mouth as well. Overall a very, very good beer. I wish I could get more of this and horde it. That and get a bit fresher to compare. I drank an ’08 ’vintage’.