Bridgeport Café Negro Coffee Infused Porter

Brewed by BridgePort Brewing (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Porter
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle.
Pours a deep, dark onyx with a healthy olive-green and brown head. Aroma is medium-bodied coffee, both roasted and post-percolation, with hints of roasted nut and celery. Flavor is fresh coffe grounds, roasted chocolate beans, chocolate syrup. And roasted hazlenut. Thin mouthfeel. Not bad; better than average.

Purchased at Vas Foremost in Chicago, IL before my band played a house show; enjoyed then and on a night trying to make the most complex split pea soup I can make and probably failing at that. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, reminded me of a coffee stout that I homebrewed with Trader Joe’s dark roast coffee beans. Appearance pure black with a rich, creamy off-white head. Aroma of an immense dark roast coffee, smells like they just threw whole beans into the fermentation. Taste is of immense dark roast coffee notes, they definitely dominate the brew, and it has a nice lactose/milky backing while being a little more thin than a stout which is what I like from a porter. Also a hint of chocolate in there, but really this one is just a coffee bomb and I’m into it.

The pour is nice with a dark brown body and an average, dark beige, dense, frothy head which is somewhat lasting and leaves some thick, frothy lace. The nose is fair; ashy, acidic coffee, some milk chocolate, earth notes, and some spice. Similar flavor, acidic/earthy coffee notes mostly, bitter chocolate, ash, and some burnt toast. The palate is nearly lively, medium, and silky but a bit watery. The beer finishes acidic, dry, and ashy with notes of toast and earthy coffee. About what I expected from a coffee beer from this brewery. Not bad but too acidic and ashy to be enjoyable.

Way too fizzy that you could not feel the body, very weak flavor, only flavor was in the good aftertaste. Not better than a mass produced beer

Bottle poured a cl;ear dark reddish brown with a lingering ring of tan foam. Aromas of coffee, roasted malt and bitter chocolate. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp. Flavors of coffee, roasted malt and bitter chocolate with a crisp lingering coffee finish.

Black thick pour, nice head and lacing. Nose is great, huge espresso and malt and alcohol. Taste is total let down, weak and watery.

12 oz bottle: Appearance is a thick deep brown in color and a light brown head. Aroma is distinct with coffee and roasted malt. Taste is big in roasted malt, coffee and some chocolate. Decent beer by Bridgeport, but not exactly to my liking.

12oz Bottle – Gravity Beer Market – Olympia, WA
Brown in color, clear with a thin head. Nice chocolate and coffee aroma and flavor. This is a great beer and loved every single drop.

Black, fluffy beige head. Pleasantly strong roasty coffee aroma, specifically reminds me of the flavor of chocolate covered espresso beans, somehow. Tastes similar to that, but comes across relatively watery compared to the richness of the aroma. It builds a decent roast coffee kick near the middle, but waters out badly as it finishes.

IT tastes like cold black coffee, not much else, it lacks depth. Try again, Bridgeport.