Brickworks Potawatomi Porter

Formerly brewed at Brickworks Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Hobart, Indiana USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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On tap at Brickworks served in a shaker. Dark cola brown pour with a thin tan film for a head. Decent lace. Again, served beyond cold, like a light lager. The aroma had some modest roast, caramel, and light chocolate. The flavor was bitter roast and cold coffee. Flimsy, watery mouthfeel. A small improvement over the first batch, but this one still has a ways to go.

This draft brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a softly carbonated transparent copper brown colored body. The weak aroma was brown malt. The thin mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start with a roasted malty note and mediumly tingly at the finish. The mild flavor contained notes of roasted malt and hops. An OK brew just nothing special.

Draft sample at IMBGF Winter10. Poured clear brown color with an average frothy light brown head that mostly lasted with fair lacing. Moderate toasted chocolate malt aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with medium sweet finish of short to moderate duration. Average drinkable beer but below average for style.

Tap and once again poured too high so left no room for any head, still served far too cold as well. Cola brown hue with some lace. The aroma has notes of roasted barley, some debittered black malts, slight nutty and coffee vapours and raisins, a note of acidic cleaner as well. The taste is fleeting and thin. There are some mild sweet chocolate malts, nuts, coffee and fruit components but really seems to be less than you can do with a homebrew kit. The mouth feel is far too thin bodied. Arrgh, pass on this one.

Draft, on tap at the brew pub. Pours a dark brown with no head at all. Color reminds me of a cola. Weak aroma of chocolate and coffee. Taste is dominant chocolate and coffee. Very little malt to speak of. Although the entire line of Brickworks I find lacking seriously when it comes to malt. Feels flat in the mouth. Light mouth feel. Has a ton of promise. More malt and more carbonation will easily add 1 full point to the rating.