Big Aloha Kiawe Honey Porter

Brewed by Sam Choys/Big Aloha Brewery
Style: Porter
Honolulu, Hawaii USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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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.

Pours translucent black with red hue. Off white head. No lacing. Light aroma...chocolate. Taste is the best part of this beer. Roasted malts, sweet chocolate, sugar, dark chocolate and acidic aftertaste. Alittle watery. Bubbles on the tongue.

All Sam Choy’s beer tastes the same. It is just beer. Nothing exciting nor flavorful at all. Then none of the local Hawaiian brew has been. It is true: Homebrewing good brew does, in fact, turn one into a beer snob.

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.

On tap at Sam Choy’s. Clear dark brown with a tan head. Light nutty nose. Decent choco-nut flavor, but not much to get excited about.

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.

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 a bad porter, somewhat malty and sweet up front; roasty dry and creamy finishing palate; some pheonelic notes; well balanced

Draft: Poured dark brown with a medium tan head. Roasty malt aroma. Moderate coffee flavor. A decent porter but perhaps a little average.

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