Bitter Root Porter

Brewed by Bitter Root Brewing
Style: Porter
Hamilton, Montana USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Pours a transparent dark mahogany with a wispy-lacing tan head. Aroma of dry smoky malts with some roasty notes. Body starts lightly sweet and thinner with a hint of tartness and smoky character before a watery semi-tart light fruity finish. Needs more body and sweetness.

It poured a dark brown color with a tan head. The aroma was nice roasted malts and some coffee tones. The taste was strong coffee, bittersweetness, roasted malt, and a little smokey. A decent Porter.

Sampled at an esbls tasting. A lot of red in the dark hue. A ring for a head. A very smoky nose with a bit of meat. This could be a rauch. Smoky and meaty flavor. Some ash. This is probably close to being authentic to the roots of the style but that style has been improved upon.

Bottle from a Bozeman grocery store. Nice roasty malt and a little more roasty than what I am used to with a straight porter. Chocolate flavors and creamy milk texture. Bittersweet coffee finish. All together this reminds more of a light stout or a full bodied imperial porter. Good character and presence for the style.

tawny brown. dusty milk powder yeast and dark caramel malt nose with soapy, metallic, spicy phenols. somewhat twangy and spicy flavor up front; phenols running wild. burnt dark caramel chewiness and sweetness throughout with fizzy carbonation and high acid. mostly unpleasant and dirty throughout.

Pours black with à tan head. The aroma is roasty with chocolate, coffee, and spice. The flavor is simple, straight for forward. Chocolate, flint, ash, coffee and spice. Not bad at all.

Bottle. Pours clear reddish-brown, medium to thin off-white head, great lacing. Nose is malted milk balls, hazelnuts, smells like a Kinder Bueno, light roast coffee, very creamy aroma, with toasted nuts and cocoa powder. Flavours are light and smooth, nice nuttiness, meaty bitterness, short finish. Alright.

Bottle. Dark brown with a ruby tint, small tan head with a little lacing. Roasted malt aroma, dark fruit, smoke, and coffee bitterness. Flavor was smoky, fruity, coffee, dry finish with a slight bitter aftertaste.

Bottle. Ashy, dark chocolate, raisin, coffee, and light smoke aroma. Chestnut color with small head. Slight sweet chocolate/coffee and lightly smokey flavor. Lightly bitter hay hops and astringent aroma. Nice beer.

Bottled, from Bozeman, MT. Very drak brown, rich firm head. Aroma of licorice and smoke. Dry and fairly light bodied with spritzy mouthfeel. Licorice dominats untila salty, tarry finish.

Dark brown, ruby edges, foamy tan head. Aroma of milk chocolate, mild fruit, some roast malt. Taste has some burnt or smokey flavors along with sweet fruit. Medium thin body, kinda chalky.