Anchor Porter

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

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Poured dark brown, not quite opaque, with a medium sized tan head. Aroma was chocolate with roasted malts. Bitter dark chocolate with roasted aftertaste. a very good porter!

iced coffee appearance and flavour. some bitter chocolate and banana. there’s a lot going on there and it could be slightly stronger

UPDATED: JAN 18, 2007 (Bottled) Very dark cola-brown with a smallish, tight and somewhat lacy, beige head. The aroma is quite a bit burned-malty, but nicely chocolate-licoricey with a strong hop presence. Flavor has also chocolate and salty licorice, plus sweet-syrupy maltiness, but especially when colder also a bit too much color malt, making the flavor burned and ashy. As it warms, the sweet malt takes over, and burnedness fades accordingly. Medium to full-bodied, slicky and ashy palate with a sticky, dry and pleasantly hoppy finish. Seems like a beer with many faces: thin and ashy when cold - sweet-syrupy, thick, and Baltic Porter -like when warmer. Very nice, but not quite world-class. (About a year old bottle, BBE 2005, was 7-4-8-4-16=3.9) Very, very dark, reddish brown color with a light brown, fading head. Quite dry, very roasty, salty and slightly red-wineous aroma with some caramel and alcohol. Initially sweetish, roasted-malty, slightly port-wineous flavor with grassy hops. Turns dry, roasted and slightly bitter towards the finish, and finally ends sweetish, bitter and sugary. Medium to full-bodied, low-carbonated and wineous, sticky palate. A tasty, high-quality, port-wineous porter - maybe a bit thin in body.

This is a good Porter and is one of the best that you can get readily and at a good price. I like Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter more but not much. Great coffee flavor and dry roasted chocolate bean impression. I will definitely get this again.

Poured a midnight red with a standard head. Nice little aroma, reminding me of a neighborhood coffee shop. Flavor is magnificent coffee, toffee, and dark baked fruits. Excellent porter. (#2643, 1/7/07)

Fresh, sweet, milky, chocolate aroma with light hints of roasted malts. Darkest brown, opaque body with lavish, pillowy, brown head that lasts throughout the tasting. Fruitiness up front recedes to reveal the thick chocolate flavour which plays out to a restrained roastiness in the dry finish with some light smokey notes. Full-body with heavy, thick, viscous and syrupy mouthfeel. Bottle.

Small, creamy, brown head. Opaque black body. Dense, sweet, harmonic aroma of licorice and coffee. Again dense, almost sourish taste of roastiness, coffee, and lingering driness with notes of wild berries. Mouthfeel somewhat watery. Lingering sweetness with marzipan notes. A very good porter, reminiscent of Sam Smith’s Taddy Porter, but not as good.