Boylan Bridge Pullman Porter

Brewed by Boylan Bridge Brewpub
Style: Porter
Raleigh, North Carolina USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Draught, from a 4 oz. flight sample. Reddish-brown color, small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, slight bit of wine. Flavor is similar, lots of chocolate, light--not very heavy, some caramel, hazelnut. Soft, slightly oily mouthfeel.

Tap at pub. Reddish brown, small tan head. Light roast, soy, ash. Flavor is light smoked ham, char, roast. Thin mouthfeel.

Black coloured beer with some very light carbonation and a small brown head. Malty roasted and chocolaty hinted aroma. Full light creamy hinted palate. Finish is roasted bitter, creamy and malty with a longer sweet bitter creamy malty ending. Ok one.

Pint at the brewpub. Pours near black with a dark tan head. The nose is of bacon, roasted coffee and chocolate. Palate is lighter for the style but this beer doesn’t skimp on flavor. It’s very roasty with a bittersweet finish. There are notes of meat, cacao, caramel and wafers. A surprisingly good porter.

Dark brown pour with a thin tan head with some lacing. Toasted aroma of malts. Flavor is chocolate and coffee but bittersweet and just right. Probably the best local produced porter I have ever had.

Pours a nice amber brown color with a light tan head. Aroma is roast, diacetyl, caramel, fruity, and some chocolate. Flavor is chocolate, caramel, some roast, toast, and a bitter earthy finish.

Serving: Draft at the brewpub. It pours a very muddy dirt brown color (clearly I got the unfiltered version) with no head at all. The nose is nutty with notes of dark caramel and a bit of earth. The taste is on the sweet side with notes of caramel, a bit of band-aid, earth, and peat. The palate has a medium body leading to a dry, bitter finish. It strikes me as being a wee bit on the raw side and I think this one could stand a day or two more in the tank.

Tap at BB. Pours a deep amber brown with thin head. Aroma is nutty brown chocolate, earthy minty bitter, solvent, harsh extract chocolate and slick sweetness. Flavor is toffee, chocolate, choc essence, salty brown malts, toffee, and slick. Harsh as well- solventy.

On tap at the brewpub. Somewhat thin brown pour, with a fairly lively carbonation and a thick creamy head. Thinness confirmed in the palate, and it comes across more like a decently robust brown than any porter of note. Sweet malts are a bit over the top, and there’s not a whole lot of depth to it. The least of the several beers I tried here.

(draft) Clear dark brown body with beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, coffee/roast, some chocolate, light smoke. Taste is medium sweet, chocolate, caramel, light coffee. Watery light-medium body, low carbonation.