Dundee Porter

Dundee Brewing Company
Brewed at Genesee Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Rochester, New York USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottle from a mixed pack on 06/27/2009. Dark brown body with light ruby highlights. Light roasted malt, honey, and some pale malt aroma with hints of molassas. Molassas, faint roast, caramel, and pale malt flavor, some slightly tart notes. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation.

Thanks Floyd. Pours typical of its style being very dark with a smallish tan head. Nice retention provides the beer with a creamy feel. A nice aroma offering roasted notes and chocolate that could be from fudge. Flavor is mostly chocolate with a surprisingly big alcohol taste. Hops are barely noticed. This beer did not warm well becoming sour and bitter. Still, it was enjoyable and offered nice flavor.

Bottled. Poured medium-deep ambery brown with a short, swirly cap of beige head. The aroma picked up lightly-toasted, artificially-sweetened chocolates first and foremost with accents of earth and vanilla beans.. non-offensive. The flavor had sweet chocolates throughout paired with molasses down there too.. again there was lots of vanilla around.. light-to-moderate roast.. sweet finish with more of the molasses. Light-medium bodied and just a bit too sweet for my liking.. decent array of malts, though. I’d drink this again.

(Sample Date: 6/27/2009 Source:Other) Clear dark amber brown with a robust light tan head. Roast and some vanilla with caramelized sugars in the aroma and flavor. Light body, dry, clean, no fruitiness. Finish is dry with moderate bitterness and slightly tart astringency. Touch oxidized.

THOUGHTS: Well it looked nice. Not much aroma or flavor though. Not a very good porter. Way to thin for the style. Before this I didn’t realize you could make a bad porter. Guess I was wrong. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, brown that was nearly black in the glass with red highlights and a small, off-white head that mostly diminished and left fair lacing. The aroma was roasted malt and cocoa. The initial flavor was moderately sweet; while the finish was lightly sweet and lightly bitter and a little sour. There was roasted malt, cocoa, a hint of hops and a little licorice. But it was all a bit watery. The light to medium body was like watery syrup and then a little dry with fizzy carbonation and a sort of chalky finish.

12oz bottle. Filtered looking, dark stained glass reddish-brown. Decent, foamy head. The aroma is a little sweet with a touch of odd astringency. Pretty awful mouthfeel, like a nitro hit with a wave of macro dark malt swill. Medium bodied I guess. Not good.

Very impressed with this porter. For a widely distributed beer, this one really scores high. Great, rich flavor and solid looking beer.

[2116-20090426] 12floz bottle. Chocolate-dipped toasty bread aroma. Dark brown black body with a medium-lasting foamy tan head. Lovely toasted chocolate-dusted bread. Medium body. Drinkable, good, surprising!
(from Premier Gourmet, Buffalo, NY; w/ jerc)