3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Deep black/brown with a nice layer of tan head. Intense dry roasted aroma. Molasses and puffed wheat cereal. Something a bit port-like. Strong roast character, lending a prickly mouthfeel. Bitter, but more in a chalky way than a hoppy way. Full and lively mouthfeel, with a bitterness that lingers between sips. Not as subtle in it’s beauty as some of Bell’s beers, but full of life and very good. A good example of a porter that stays within style guidlines, but has it’s own distinctive take on the style. A beer with enough backbone to stand up to some robust food pairing.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a dark black color with a thick tan head that dissipates over time. Decent lacing. A tad bit of chocolate in the aroma along with some roastiness. Chocolate flavors are the first I notice with every sip later giving way to some overdone coffee bean. Mouthfeel is a little thinner than I expected or wanted. Decent porter.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dark cola pour, creamy light tan head. Aroma has dry chocolate, roasty wheat bread.
Flavor is pretty good sweet coffee with roasty porter overtones. Nice basic porter with nothing wrong.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Wow! This is probably one of the best porters I’ve ever had. Opaque black. They use simple flavors of chocolate and coffee with dark malts, but it comes out incredibly well balanced and complex. Hints of sherry as well - drinking this would have made me suspect it was a Bell’s beer, it somehow reminds me of the Expedition Stout. Lasting and wonderful finish that makes me with I lived in Michiga...well, not really, but it’s damn good stuff.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
The nearly black appearance is accompanied by a small, tan head with good lacing. Roasted malts produce aromas of coffee and chocolate with hints of molassas toward the end. Rich, malty, smokey bittersweet taste, with some floral hops contributing to the flavor. Full bodied, moderately carbonated mouthfeel leading to a bitter, but smooth, lasting finish.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Reminiscent of the expedition stout, but a little softer. Flavors of black licorice, chocolate, and coffey.
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
This is by far one of the better traditional porters i have every had. Not too much coffee and not too much chocolate, this beer had just the right amount of mix.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
bottle batch#9022 poured a dark chestnut brown with a one finger foamy light tan head. aroma has chocolate malt, light roasted coffee, and nuts. medium mouth feel with plenty of carbonation frothing up the body a bit. flavor has some bitterness, chocolate, rich brown malt, roast, and a firm finish of bitterness and coffee. brings on the flavors for a porter.
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