Desert Edge Powderkeg Porter

Brewed by Desert Edge Brewery
Style: Porter
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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On tap and growler at Desert Edge
Appearance: Dark brown with a nice beige head with some lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, roasted coffee, woody, vanilla
Taste: Toasted malts, sweet caramel, ashy, bourbon with a light hop bitterness in the finish
A nice beer. The barrel thins it out some because of the low abv of the base beer. But this is very drinkable and tastes great.

Growler thanks to Sledutah. Pours a dark cloudy brown color with a medium off-white head. A nice nose of bourbon, distinct for sure, woody, earthy, caramel and toasted malts. The flavor is a nice sweet vanilla bourbon mix with some woodiness and a base porter of toasted malts, sweet caramel, chocolate. A nice brew, and a nice experiment. Let me expand this to say that this good brew reveals the limitation of 4%. It is done as well as possible I suspect, but against stronger and more stylistically in-line versions it is thin and lacking a robustness. Session beers are great, and I am not in favor of higher gravity at all costs, but doing a 4% BA Porter has significant limitations. I’d love to see this re-done at 7-9%!