Flagstaff Blackbird Porter

Brewed by Flagstaff Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Flagstaff, Arizona USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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UPDATED: AUG 1, 2010 cola colored pour with a thin off white ring for a head. the nose is of buttery caramel creams mixed with roasted grain and coffee. the flavor is really buttery and creamy... not 100% if it is diacetyl (most likely) but it works in a weird way. anyway... creamy coffee combines with light ashy roast, nuts and wood. thin to medium body with a crisp prickly mouth feel. 5/3/5/3/12/2.8

try this again... molasses, coffee, butter and wood with a creamy slick mouth feel. it lacks a tingle and bittering balance. rating stands.

Deep brown pour with a thin head. Light aroma of roast, coffee and sweetness. Flavor is about the same. Thin. No big deal.

Dark brown pour with creamy tan head and lace. Medium toasted malt and a hint of abv. Roasted coffee with a hint of chocolate and a light mediciny flavor. Medium bodied and smooth. A beer that is close to being really good.

on tap-pours a tan head and black color with red tint. Aroma ia roasty dark malt-anise, some acidic hops. Taste is roasty dark malt-anise/chocolate, ashy, some acidic/earthy hops. Full side of medium body.

draft at the brewpub - Pours very dark brown with a tan head that lasts and laces well. It smells of dark roast malt and has flavors of those same malts, chocolate, and a little dark fruit. It’s medium bodied and moderately bitter. Maybe they pumped up the hops on this one from prior years.

A very creamy porter, with a milky/frothy flavor. Sweet, too much so for me. Interestingly, almost seems thicker than the stout.

Poured a beautiful brown color with a nice concave up tan head (looked like it was on Nitro, but it wasn’t), great lacing all the way down. Very enticing. The aroma was mostly coffee, light fruitiness and light coffee. The flavor was initially pretty sweet, turning to a little bit of a zing in the finish (not really hoppy though). Odd, really grew on me as I drank this pint. With increased temperatures a cherry/choco combo started to impress and make this just smooth with a bitter dry cocoa bean lingering taste in the finish (quite nice, though). Mouthfeel was only moderate for the level of flavor in this one, I enjoyed it.

Sweet licorice aroma. Dark red bodywith tan head. Flavor was sweet as well. Didn’t get any of that roasted flavor but maybe because of the nasty pizza I was eating at the brewery ruined that.

UPDATED: NOV 11, 2005 A deep btrown w/ a light tan head. Sweetish malt aromas with no hops. Sweet and caramelly, w/ no roastiness. A little too sweet. Typical of the brewery. re-rate- This is just loaded with diacety. No way of getting around it. Just loaded.

Draught at Flagstaff Brewing Company, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Light tan head, amber colored body. Too light for a porter! Roasted aroma, tones of coffee and little smoke. Very sweet in the flavor, malty with an earthly tone. Quite strange and too sweet and not really my kind of porter.