Black Oak Nutcracker

Brewed by Black Oak Brewing
Style: Porter
Etobicoke, Canada

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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341 ml bottle from brewery. Pours a deep very dark brown with small tan head. Pleasant caramel, roast and cinnamon nose. Flavour is very roasty/coffeeish with cinnamon coming through more subtly towards the end. Light bitterness in finish. Enjoyable.

Can 341ml. @ Chriso’s pre GBBF Shindig ’09.
Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, roasted, spicy, cinnamon - anis. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration and spicy. Body is medium, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is soft. [20090801]

Black with a lasting tan head. Sweet caramel and toffee aroma. Dry and malty flavour with a spicy touch.

Bottle at Chris-Os Pre GBBF tasting 2009 ... black ... sweet roast nose... big sweet ... roast malt and nut ... lots of toffee..lots of roast

Bottled. Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is roasted malts some a bit toffeeish notes. Flavour is quite much the same. Really not much to add.

341 ml bottle. Rating #100. Dark brown with a thin tan head. Nose is cocoa, molasses and plum. Medium body with a tingle. Taste is coffee and milk chocolate. Bitter fudgy finish with a touch of cinnamon. Tasty.

Black body, small tan head. Winter spice and chocolately malt aroma. The flavor lacks the core milk dud sweetness and favors roast malt and holiday spice. A very subdued spiced beer.

A Mes rate: bottle at home thanks to the ever generous Hog Town Harry.
Black as the ace of spades with a decent and lasting beige head with good bubble variation. Rich malt backing supports the cinnamon, clove and nutmeg notes really well. Harry was worried about the age of this bottle (year and a half Harry?) but if anything it gave it a really pleasant faint musty note in the background. There is a definite hint of Speyside about it too. Really nice and creamy feel. Good dry chocolate finish. Interesting and enjoyable. Thanks Harry.

Draught and bottle at Volo, November 2007. Part of Volo’s ’Nutcracker Suite’ tasting night. Draught was definitely superior, with the mouthfeel being most prominently different: more full, thicker. This holds coffee and chocolate aromas, with similar flavours plus some roasted nuttiness. Maybe I’m influenced by the cinnabomb in the tasting lineup, but the cinnamon flavour does not seem very big.

341ml bottle, with thanks to HogTownHarry for the excellent bonus! Pours a dark brown with a large frothy tan head that lingers, moderate lacing. Aroma is roast, cinnamon, chocolate and just the slightest of smoke. Flavor is more roast dominated with some light cinnamon, but a bit thin. Thanks again for the chance to try Harry!