Aloha Kiawe Honey Porter

Brewed by Aloha Beer Company (formerly: Big Aloha Brewery)
Style: Porter
Honolulu, Hawaii USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Tap. Dark chocolate, coffee, and licorice aroma. Dark brown color with minimal head. Fudge malt flavor with a licorice/hops finish. Nice full body - damn tasty.

Taster - Big Aloha Brewery (Sam Choys) - Honolulu, Hawaii
2008 – Great Hawaii Beer Run
Aroma – Deep Malt aroma with a great hint of honey and other fruitiness.
Appearance – Brown in color, nice head and clear.
Flavor – A great flavor for this porter it had depth and character and the best it had great flavor. Yheaaaaaaa A great Beer in Hawaii. Loved the dark malts and light chocolates and fruitiness.
Palate – Had a great Mouthfeel loved the finish this was the best thus far on my trip.
Overall – Loved this beer it had flavor and taste and was just overall a great tasting porter.

This beer was the highlight of my sampling at Big Aloha. A perfectly crafted, and somewhat unique, island brew. Deep brown with sasparilla underpinning and a respectable head. The nose easily fills with a sweet roastiness, true to its honey porter name. As the bartender tells me, island honey (acacia?) is used for this brew. It certainly adds a distinct and pleasurable complexity the well put togther porter base. The sweetness complements the heavier roast notes that are richly nuanced with chocolate, coffee, and maltiness. MIlk chocolate finish. A medium-bodied, flavorful and quaffable brew.

Deep black with slight ruby hints. Strong tobacco in the aroma with some sweet and roasty notes. Nutty coffee flavour with some sweet honey in the finish.

A dark porter with a very thin dark brown head. In aroma, a lightly peated chocolate malt with light bacon and dark fruits. In mouth, sweet chocolate malt with cherry notes, honey, light smokey notes, very nice. On tap at brewpub, Nov. 30, 2012.

Tap@Aloha. Black color with tan head. Dark roast malt, chocolate aromas. medium body with average co2. Dark roast flavors with dark chocolate, pale malt, and maybe some honey--very tasty

On tap at Sam Choys in Honolulu, HI. Poured a deeper brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of honey, roast, chocolate and nutty. Tastes of lighter honey, roast, chocolate and had a light coffee bitter finish.

Not much aroma on this dark black beer. Subtle coffee-cream flavors, with a bit of bitter note. Nice warmer.

Not a bad porter, somewhat malty and sweet up front; roasty dry and creamy finishing palate; some pheonelic notes; well balanced

Ehh. Real tight nose. Using "honey" in the name suggests sever things. None of which I get in this beer. Expected a more viscous beer. Sweetness is detectable but not pronounced. Good follow through though.