Buckner Porter

Tasted 8/6/2007. Ragsdale’s bar in the basement of the brewery. Filtered with a dark brown ruby hue. Bibbled ring of off white head. Cola and dark fruit in the nose. Anise pepper and dark chocolate, touch toffee. Nice nose. Medium bodied and smooth malts. Cocoa flavors and slightly smokey. Good flavors of cookie and cola. Fudgy. Solid. Maybe a touch light bodied for the style. Syrupy and cocoa. Another nice offering. Medium coffee roast and toasty anise flavors. Good drinkability. I obviously had a different batch then the previous two raters.

tap at the augusta bottoms beerfest alongside vyvvy. pours deep brown with a crappy soapy head. sour and charred nose. body has watery feeling and no carbonation for the most part. sour cherries and chocolate flavors. man, this was bad. I had to dump mine on the grass!

Sampled at Augusta Bottoms Beer Festival 2006. My second and last from the brewery at the Fest. Pours deep brown with a tan soapy head. The aroma has sour mellon and some roastiness. The body is watery and there is very little carbonation. The taste has sour fruitiness and chocolate. The finish is sour and roasty. Not a good porter.

On tap at Buckner. Solid, but not overwhelming. Pours a proper porter color with a diminishing head. What’s lacking here is the hops. Its most semi-sweet chocolate with some alcohol on the finish, but I would have never guessed 7.5 (I suppose that’s a good thing in some regards.) There’s just not much of a finish here, and the flavors aren’t all that strong. I think its an easy drinking porter. Its good, not spectacular.

(growler from the brewpub) Deep black with very little tan head. Roast malt aroma. Flavor of roast malt with chocolate and coffee flavors.