Kona Pipeline Porter

Brewed by Kona Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Kailua Kona, Hawaii USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Deep, almost impenetrable brown with russet notes. An off-white head that didn’t hang around. Coffee notes abound with an almost floral character. Smells like so much more than overpowering coffee. Flavours are initially of dark chocolate and then coffee, brown sugar and coffee grinds. The flavour lingers and as it does becomes soapy. Seriously soapy. This beer is tasty enough, but that soapy note doesn’t do it any favours.

Really pleasant to drink. I had this one a long time ago. If I have the chance to drink it again, I’ll update this rating

355ml bottle. Clear black with macropored, quickly fading beige head. Leather, dark and milk chocolate aroma, some sweetness therefore, nougat, vestiges of alcohol. Ugh! Taste is cold insipid coffee, grandma’s nougat reserve from 1963 stored near a cleaning powder forbidden for environmental protection reasons since then. Infected? Exhausted?

Pours pitch black as night, small creamy head. Aroma is malty, coffee and sweet. Taste is a coffee implosion, full of joe, malt with hints of chocolate. Well balanced ! Flavor abounds ! Very enjoyable and drinkable, on the light side secondary to its ABV, but nevertheless a fine light porter. Quaff Score (drinkability with heart enjoyment ) 8 / 10

Pours dark brown with a light tan head and aroma of roasted malts. Flavor is sweet, heavy on coffee, with notes of roasted malts and chocolate and a nice smooth, dry finish. Drinkable, great tasting coffee porter.

UPDATED: FEB 3, 2012 (33ml Bottle)Wake up and drink this every morning ; a lovely beer to drink with your corn flakes & one-night-stand. loads of coffee dimension but still keeping beer tendancies . Great fun

Poured from a bottle and drank from a standard pint glass. Pours a deep dark brown almost black color with a thin tan head. Flavor is all mocha and the mix of chocolate and Kona coffee beans is outstanding. A very enjoyable porter. SJL \m/

Growler from draft. Pours thick and black, with a tan head, slight lacing on the glass. Smells roasted with chocolate notes. Lighter body, strong roasted malt flavor, chocolate, sweet notes and just a lingering hint of coffee.