Anchor Porter

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

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottle, 355 ml. Pours darkbrown, almost black colour with a thick, beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, liquorice and even some coffee. Flavour of roasted malts and some sweetness of chocolate and hints of coffee. This one was delicious.

Poured black with an extremely thick tan head that didn’t dissolve, but folded in on itself. Body is smooth and not too heavy. Has hints of coffee and lots of roasted grain. I can’t say I’ve had a better porter.

Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass. A: Pours dark brown with a great looking 1.5" creamy, tan head. Retention was decent and lasted about a quarter of the way through. S: A nice balance of coffee and roasted chocolate with a hint of sweetness. T: Great balance of bitterness with sweetness from the dark fruit taste. Not too rich with just the right flavor for a good American porter. M/D: It goes down nice and smooth. With plenty of complex flavors, and low ABV, I could definitely drink a few of these in one sitting. I love this porter because it’s available locally here in MS where there aren’t many good beers to choose from due to the ABV limits. This has become my go to beer for quality and availability

Pours a deep red with a lasting head. Maybe some caramel, dark malts, wants me to dive in. The beer leaves a taste with me that just makes me want more and more, perhaps I’ve found a new go to session? I’m tasting a bit of coffee maybe... overall delicious.

Wow :-). Poured a nice pitch black with a hint of brown in direct light. The enormous off-white head gave it a very delicious appearance. Smelled thick of sweet milk chocolate, lightly roasted coffee and some lingering hops. Tasted extravagant; Notes of creamy smooth chocolate, with hints of roasty coffee, raisins and bitter cocoa overflowed the senses with satisfaction. The finish was a little earthy, while the bitterness of cocoa lingered and taunted you for another sip. One of, if not the best porters I’ve ever had!

UPDATED: JUL 31, 2011 Bottle at North Bar, Leeds. Can’t believe it took me so long to try this one, think I may have a new favourite porter. Generous light head on top of a perfect deep black colour. In fact, you look at it and wonder - how much more black could it be? And the answer is none. None more black. Lovely rich aroma, roasted, chocolate, fairly sweet actually. Nicely contrasted by bitterness in the taste. Hard to improve on Anchor’s own description - it really is ’intensely rich’. Bitter dark chocolate, coffee, dark fruits. Bitterness balanced by a touch of sweetness. Wonderfully balanced, a very, very good beer.

Appearance: Pours black with about a finger of light tan head. Nose: roasted malts, coffee, chocolate. Taste: smokey chocolate, maybe a bit of dark fruits and a slight hoppiness. Very smooth.

slight citrus note in the aroma, along with syrupy chocolate notes. quite sweet for me, but the body helps absorb that to an extent. medium body with medium carbing, makes it stay on the tongue long enough to bring you back to the glass.