Eel River Certified Organic Porter

Dark brown pour with a medium foamy tan head that lasted throughout. Nice aroma of roasted malt and coffee, semi-sweet chocolate, and a touch of dark fruit. Flavor is sweet dark chocolate and roasty coffee, with a long bitter finish. Smooth and almost creamy on the palate. Not a bad session porter.

Bottled. Poured clear iced tea brown with a dusting of beige head.. came across as rather dead. The aroma picked up semi-sweet chocolate and toasted black malts surrounded by a hit of sweet cocoa powder.. not bad, but really not interesting. The flavor had semi-sweet chocolate again paired with light coffee bitterness and grassy notes.. sweeter on the finish with chocolate coming back.. OK. Light-medium bodied and grainy on the palate with a bit more bitterness as it warmed.. this got better as it warmed, but it was still lacking something.

Dark almost black pour with thin head, Aroma was caramel, malt, and sweet. Taste similar. Good Porter, wish it had a slightly higer ABV.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a very large brown head. The aroma was nicely roasty, toasty and had a hint of molasses. The flavor was very roasty with an intense bitterness, gritty expresso and very very dry. The finish was long, bitter and very roasty. Too dry and rough for my liking but very well made.

Dark brown with a modest tan head and some lacings. Aroma is coffee and some cocoa. Taste is dark roast coffee with a good amount of hop bitterness. Overall a very well balanced porter. Lip-smackin’ good.