Atlantic Coal Porter

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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i found this had a mineral quality at first but that disappeared after a while. toffee notes. medium bodied on the palate. toffee notes on the palate some tannins develop on the finish as the bottle opens up. not alot of coffee notes on this one that i come to expect with porters.

Serving: 12 oz. bottle from a shop in Wiscassett
I had a chance to visit the brewery three years ago and figured I would rate this to see how it holds up against my memory. Then I thought it was quite tasty and had a lot of roastiness. And now... it pours almost pitch black (hence the name?) with some ruby highlights and with a creamy, off-white head. Spotty lacing gets left behind. The nose has a lot of roasted malt, almost to the point of being able to mistake this for a stout. Some mineral notes come through as well. The taste is a nice mix of well roasted malt, some underlying nut notes (black walnut?), and perhaps a touch of lactic sweetness. A nice earthiness emerges as the beer warms. This is a top notch porter. Medium bodied with slight softer than average carbonation leading to a roasty finish that is just a touch sweet. Quite nice. Nice to see my memory hasn’t failed me. And even nicer to be able to get my hands on this beer again. Highly recommended.

Atlantic Coal Porter is a dim brown-black ale with a thick, dense, creamy head that has outstanding retention and lacing. It has a dark, roasted coffee aroma. It’s pretty full bodied and smooth. The finish is light, but leaves the teeth a touch gritty. It has a dark, roasted flavor. It’s pretty dry and there is a leafy, bitter finish that lasts a while. It’s a simple, yet reasonably robust, porter.

I may be being a bit harsh here, but here goes: Pours a lively brown black with minimal head. Aroma is nutty and sandy. Taste is, well, chalky. Just bad. Shared most of this porter with my drain. awful.

Not sure what there is to say here: the beer is pretty much a generic porter, with the medium body, coffee finish, and slight cocoa notes lingering around the palate. Not particularly interesting; solid, but in a style where I’ve got so many opportunities to be amazed I don’t see myself revisiting it.

Pours a deep brown with a small tan head, not very viscous... Aroma of roastiness with coffee and choc notes.. Rich flavor of chocolate, coffee, licorice, and a roastiness... touch creamy medium bodied, somewhat carbonated...

(br-btl br-lbl, Atlantic Brewing Company in Bar Harbor and Portland ME, 6.5%)

opq-bk, thin creamy tan head, full body, ^co2.

dark-malt earthy-hop aroma.

sweet-dark-malt earthy-hop §coke balanced T1T2, toasted-charred-malt earthy-floral-hop T3.
^drinkable, session beer.

Poured dark brown, with a very sweet malt with some smoky and earthy flavor, a solid porter but nothing amazing, with a very thin taste.

Reviewed 7/25/2009 (bottle): Pours a very dark dark brown colored body, with a small off-white color head, diminishing in size. Has a malty, grapy aroma, with some mustiness. Strong strawberry aroma. Malty taste, some roasted. Somewhat earthy.

Modest head that leaves very light lace on the glass. The liquor is dark brown where the faintest of light passes through. Nice aroma of burnt toast and darker malts. Well-balanced chocolate and black patent malt with a notable hop presence. The body is thin, like many of their other beers. But the flavor is rich and full.