Elkhead ESP

Brewed by Elkhead Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Buckley, Washington USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Very Porter-y porter. Nice malty essence with lots of dark, bitter chocolate and espresso bean flavor. Nice and smooth.

Deep root beer body, decent head. Easy molasses and coffee aromatics are also picked up enjoyably in the palate. A medium-bodied and appreciably nuanced porter, perhaps, in part, from the licorice root addition.

Medicine bottle brought home from the brewery and cracked later that day. Pours nearly black with loose, sudsy grayish head and light stringy, somewhat sheety lace. Nice big chocolatey nose for sure. Not much else there, but sweet, malty, and quite pleasant. Creamy medium body, mild carb. Chocolatey, slightly toasty and roasty. Mild sweet finish. Tasty, and no big flaws showing, but needs more life on the mouthfeel and on the head.