3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours thinly to a dark chocolate brown. Some amber glow rests at the bottom. Aroma of a sugary chocolate syrup and rum. Bold hazelnut richness and a wink of dark Pinot jam at the end. Taste is very slightly hot – some iron and aluminum. Very dirty in a favorable, earthy way. Plenty of peat, woody honey and maple syrups – a solid, authentic form of sweetness. From a rich beginning, the palate hollows out progressively the warmer it gets. Warm milk coating the mouth. Generally medium bodied. Fairly flawed execution, but a good design. Thanks for sharing, Aaron!
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tricky beer to rate; it looks like a porter, but it smells like a brown ale and tastes like one too. So if we’re rating it as a brown ale, it’s a pretty acceptable beer for the style and easily the best in the taster I had. But as a porter it would be a miserable failure, so I am rating it as a beer and saying it is good enough.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
on tap-pours a tan head and dark brown color. Aroma is ? I think I am getting citrus? Taste is dark malt-chocolate, secondary earthy hops. Medium body. Fizzy carbonation.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Poured a medium black body with thin head. Aroma is light chocolate, hops. Flavor is sweet choclate malt and bitter hops. Light mouthfeel and weak taste.
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
I like this brewing company, even though they seem to get bashed by folks on this site. This beer pours as black as can be. A little light on the carbonation, but the head is easily resurrected. I would call it a sufficient porter taste, but nothing explosive and exciting in tastes. I could see much more coming from a porter. Although I recommend the black demon stout, as lame as that name is, it is decent beer from this brewery. Support Your Local Breweries!
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Medium clear brown body. Flavors of coffee, roasted nuts and choclate. Good porter.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cherry carmel syrupy in the nose and pour. Hint s of chocolate and dates in the tatse smooth alcohol finish
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dry hoppy bitter and slightly coffee astringency. Clear black body with small off-white head. Watery and a little boring.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Sample provided by argo0. Clear brown body with a small tan head. The nose is molasses, milk chocolate and light coffee. The flavor is vinous and roasty with coffee, molasses and chocolate. Medium/light body is a bit thin with moderate carbonation.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle, thanks argo0. Clear dark brown with ruby edges and a with white foamy ring head. Nice rich caramel, coffee-mocha nose. Full bodied and pleasantly sweet flavor. Notes of chocolately caramel, coffee, mocha and ample hop character. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Very good porter.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
22oz bottle, courtesy of argo0. Thanks, Aaron! Looked like a porter (I forgot to take appearance notes!). Strange, bitter chocolate and cocoa aroma; a bit milky and green. Very roast-dominated mouthfeel, even a bit charred; medium feel, with plenty of dark chocolate and cocoa plus a green coffee note; mildly acrid and overly non-hoppily bitter. A bit rough. Medium, bitter chocolate and cocoa powder finish.
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