Dark Horse Reserve Special Black Bier

12oz bottle. Aroma: Chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, light smoke, dark fruits, and sugar. Appearance: Dark, dark brown in color. Medium tan head was full and foamy with great retention. Good lacing. Flavor: Lots of roasted malt with a bit of smoke. Coffee, chocolate, light vanilla. Some hop flavor and bitterness behind all the malt. Palate: Medium bodied. Moderate carbonation. Overall: Solid and drinkable porter.

12oz bottle..... poured almost black as some imperial stouts. light tan head subsided, leaving bubbles around the edges.... appealing aroma of roasty bitter chocolate, and even some coffee notes as well..... flavor had lots of roasted malts, bitter chocolate and an apparent hop backbone that adds some more of that bitterness to it. mouthfeel was lively and well carbonated.

Pours black with small pinkish brown head. Wonderful aroma of black cherry’s, walnuts, and chocolate. Deep roasty flavor, dry, coffee like. Finish is a little ashy. Flavor was a little disappointing after first whiff of aroma but still good stuff.

picked up in trade at dark lord day 2008 in exchange for new glarus smoke on the porter i think i got the better deal. pous black with big brown head,that never settles down in glass and dried to the sides. oh yea lots of lacing going on here, thick like a good imp.stout aromas of expresso and chocolate and roasted malts. taste of coffee and chocolate,dry and very little on hops but thats a good thing since i hate ipa’s give me a good black beer anytime, no flowers for this dog great american porter made right here in the heartland

Bottle thanks to CaptainCougar. Pours a deep black with small brown head. Nose of dried fruit, coffee and some light chocolate. Flavor has some oxidation, but once you get past that, it is rich with roasted malt, and coffee. Nice mouthfeel with light carbination. Almost has that cool coffee and the end of the shift taste to it. Very nice.