Flag Porter 1825 Original

Bottled. Pours a clear dark brown with garnet highlights and a thin tan head that provides some lace. The aroma is sweet with molasses, toffee and chocolate. Creamy medium body with moderate carbonation. The taste is lightly sweet with roasty malt molasses, chocolate and a spicy coffee finish.

Bottle: Dark, dark brown with a mahogany hue when held up to the light. Sweet aromas of dark chocolate and alcohol. Rich, malty, smoky, chocolate covered espresso bean flavors as well as alcohol. The hops presence is minimal. It has a smooth and creamy aftertaste even though it has a thin feel. There is also a tiny twang in the aftertaste. The story of the yeast and brew recipe is pretty cool!

Skip’s favorite porter...wish I could find it on tap. As the beer warms to a proper temperature, the aroma of molasses overcomes a somewhat non-descript sweetness. Flavor is full and the mouthfeel is all that one can ask of a quality porter.

Sweet, brown sugar and molasses aroma. When the beer was cold, the aroma was very deep and intruiging, with all sorts of different sweetness a nice cover over roasty malts and english hops. Lost as it warms a bit, though. Pour is brown with little head. The flavor is well balanced and quaffable, good hopping (perhaps german), and chewy with little sweetness, though is very unassertive and offers little complexity.

out of the bottle. deep, milk and dark chocolate brown. no head. a few bubbles in thin disrupted lines around the rim. arom aof caramel and strongly of vanilla. flavors of sweet, strong caramel malts, semi-sweet chocolate, roast, vanilla. finishes fruity like a pear, banana, cherry mix. good carbonation throughout. the palate is like soda but with some viscousity.

A burnt malt and chocolate aroma. A taste of toasted chocomalt. A smooth beer with a good palate. The thing I like about this beer is that the longer you sit between sips it seems to release subtle flavors. A slight sweet with a good bitter. I rated it at 3.4 on my initial glass but as it warmed it changed and I felt that I hadn’t given it enough credit.

My Favorite beer. I can’t say enough about Flag Porter’s delicousness. I pours a dark with a creamy head. The aroma is of old nuts and wheat. Tatste is like medium with a half bodied matlyness. It feels great going down much like Mackeson XXX Stout. I describe it like drinking milk sortof.

Interesting porter with strong coffee, burnt chocolate, and nuts all rolling around together under cover, unfortunately, of a somewhat thin-bodied texture. I agree with Frankenkitty: allow this to warm approaching room temperature and it tends to blossom. Not your traditional porter by any means...might even need it’s own style designation.