3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 LinusStick (2386) - Moon Twp, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - OCT 11, 2008
This is a decent porter. Beats out the rest of the beers they did. Aroma was still very weak (as all the others). Pour was a nice deep dark brown with mahogany outlines and a one finger tan head. Taste was full and delicious. A nice sweet and roasted malt flavor with just a hint of coffee in the aftertaste. As it warms and strong chocolate flavor comes out. Very drinkable porter.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20 Block (850) - West Lafayette, Indiana, USA - OCT 9, 2008
Pours dark brown/red with a tan head. Aroma of mostly sweet roasted malts. Flavor of mainly malts with some coffee and some metal.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 JPDIPSO (4957) - Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA - OCT 2, 2008
Dark brown color with a Diminishing light tan head. Sweet aromas of dark brown sugar and toasted sour dough bread. Thinner, fairly zippy feel. Light dark candi, sugary start. Toasted biscuit with some sweetened coffee grounds and a bit of alcohol creep in. Finish is quite dry and has a bit of herbal hops. Late in the linger a touch of roasted malt comes out. Just seems like a thin feeling, stronger dark ale.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 WISEGUY572 (1360) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - SEP 27, 2008
A pretty small porter in every way, but quite drinkable and, as porter’s go, relatively low alcohol. Not opaque, dark reddish brown, tiny head. Nose of sugar, sweet malts, a little chocolate. No surprise in the taste, sugar, sweet malts, and hints of chocolate. Thin for a porter but not unpleasantly so ... none of the silky oily feel of a great porter but not unpleasant. Certainly the best I’ve had from this brewer.
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20 HonkeyBra (2217) - Lemont, Illinois, USA - SEP 27, 2008
Dark pour with a thick tan head. Aroma is weak. Flavor is basically of the worst porter i’ve ever had.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 jimig (23) - , Texas, USA - SEP 21, 2008
Fun dark pour and coffee rich flavor that pours dark and has a decent tan head. Easy to pull across the tongue and has an astringent finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 FROTHINGSLOSH (3205) - GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA - SEP 21, 2008
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a large dark tan head. The aroma was bitter, dry and roasty with a light floral hop presence. The flavor was tangy, sour and bitter with a moderately roasty and toasty element and a hint of molasses and licorice The finish was shortish malty and molasses. Solid.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20 berkshirejohn (2834) - Bracknell, Berkshire, ENGLAND - SEP 17, 2008
<i>12oz bottle in Columbus, OH.</i> Mahogany brown with a rim of beige head; roast coffee aroma; thin and disappointing in the mouth, watery to start then developing a dry and malty coffee finish.
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