Anchor Porter

Brewed by Anchor Brewing Company
Style: Porter
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Easy drinking beer.Pours dark brown with a long lasting fluffy tan head. Aroma is mostly earthy, with a slight roasted coffee edge. Perfect carbonation allows this one to glide across the tongue into a short, dry, earthy finish. Good stuff.

Bomber served in an English pint. Pours dark brown with a med-large light brown head. Good staying power and lacing. Aroma and palate match. Both slightly sweet, chocolatey, with a medium roast, and a hint of dark dried fruit. Medium body, average carbonation, creamy-slick texture, and a medium roasty, decently hopped, dry finish. Great porter.

Was primarily sweet in flavour. Cherry like. Strong stiff head with great colour and aroma. But average. Not strong in taste like a porter would be. Ended fairly bitter. As put by brewmastercody with whom I enjoyed this, I expected more from such a highly rated beer.

Not much aroma, nice colour, nice sweet to bitter taste. Not too thick, good palate. Not the best tasting stout. expected more for a 99 overall stout.

UPDATED: JUN 1, 2011 Sweet smoky palate, very drinkable, delicious, balanced hops and malts, malts are dark but not very roasted. Very interesting, highly recommended

Bottle. Poured a dark brown/black, medium tan head. Aroma is roasted chocolate malts. Flavor is malt, chocolate milk, cream. Roasted finish. Decent.

Medium black with a light tan head, persistent and lace-full. Smells smoky and meaty, not unlike smoked bacon. But still very porter-like aroma. Taste starts sweet and toffee-like, turns smoky and actually pretty hoppy towards the end. Generous kinda-bitter hopped ending doesn’t take away from the oak and smoke tones from the darker, robust malts. A true classic, just not my favourite. Better than average, though.

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. The neck label has a nice description of the beer and there is a bottle code (OFJ) imprinted on the back label. Appearance: It has a dark brown/black body with deep crimson highlights and a tall three finger beige head on top. The head is slow fading and thick. It coats the glass as I tip it to my mouth and leaves thick splotchy lace patters behind. Smell: The nose is malty sweet and roasty with caramel, toffee, bready and light toasted bread notes with a hint of chocolate. Taste/Palate: It’s sweet up front with lots of deep malty texture in a full body. Roasted grain, toasted bready notes, caramel and toffee blend with mild bitterness from the mostly hidden hops and finish a little dryer but still with some residual sugary sweetness. It has a smooth full feel with light carbonation. Notes: Overall it’s a well made and very enjoyable American Porter.