Anchor Porter

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

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Draught
Dark ruby, almost opaque black. Cloudy beautiful expresso head. Roasted and berry aroma. Medium-bodied, roasted, crisp and hoppy flavor. Aftertaste has soapy and sweet hoppyness.

UPDATED: JAN 19, 2003 Delicious porter -- aroma is inviting chocolate roasted malt. Taste is of that, together with mild hops. For a porter, this beer is quite rich.

UPDATED: JAN 29, 2008 Bottled. Dark brown beer with a brown head. Aroma has roastiness, hops and a mellow coffee/moccha note. Chocolate, roasted malt, hops and coffee in the flavor. Full, sweet body and a finish that starts sweet, but the sweetness is soon overpowered by a dry bitterness. Rating: 6-3-6-4-14-3.3 (060312)

Bottle. Pours an oily, dark brown body, low on co2, and it looks clear, with a small, tan head. Roasted malt, licorice, hops and some coffee and mocha in the aroma. Very balanced and pleasing, but maybe a bit weak. There’s even some earthy notes, almost like Brazil nut fruit. The flavor has some hoppy fruityness in the beginning, soon followed by coffee, roasted malt, a little note of sourness, some medicine touch, and a bitterness. Both hoppy and coffee-like bitterness. Full, oily, quite sticky mouthfeel. Rather dry. The finish is coffee-ish, bitter and hop-fruity. It’s a shame I haven’t had this since the first time in the beginning of -06, as it’s a beer that deserves to be drank several times. (080129)

on tap-pours a brown creamy head with black color. Aroma is malty, chocolate. Taste is malty, chocolate. Even though this is not my style usually, nice.

Black colour with a nice long lasting head. Aroma of well roasted malts and hops, some sweetness. Creamy flavour with nice roastiness from the malts, chocolate, coffee and hops. Great brew!

Bottle shared with Janis. Black, brown head. Very nice malty, burned malts, sweetness, raisins and hop.

Bottle. Pours dark mahogany red. A thin, creamy and lasting beige head. Aroma has lots of roasted malts, some berrues and a little smoke. Nice full mouthfeel - not that creamy nor oily, just full. Flavour is quite sweet with with a clear background of roasted malts. Finishes with a well-rounded bitterness.

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2011 Black with an off-white lasting head. Aroma of malt, molasses, a bunch of dried fruit, chocolate and a hint of licorice. Malty flavour with sweet chcolate and toffee, a good bitter and roasted finish.