Founders Porter

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Pours nice and dark, reasonable tan head. Smells malty, darkly fruity, and chocolate-y - good. Tastes also quite good; just enough hops to balance out the smell, so reasonable bite, but thick enough palate.

Bottle @ home. Deep dark brown color, opague. Roast, chocolate and licorice in both aroma and flavor. Velvety mouthfeel. Medium bodied. malty. Grassy and citric hops. Very well balanced. This is an excellent porter, highly drinkable yet very tasty.

Probably one of the best if not the best porter you can buy. Great roasted aromas and the flavor is spectacular. Silky smooth and nice coffee flavors from the roasted malts. Just the right body that supports the flavor profile. Nice subtly bitter finish

12 oz bottle from Whole Foods Nora. Pours a thickish black with a thin khaki head. Aroma is fantastic-semi sweet chocolate, light roast, dark cherry, bit of soury twang. Taste gets roast up front, followed by a great twangy malt sweetness. Perfect mouthfeel. Not super thick, but a good amount to chew on-more than most porters. Spot on bitterness with no standout hop flavor/aroma Extremely well balanced, restrained, but full flavored brew. Awesome beer.

dark brown pour with almost ruby highlights and a tan head. aroma is strong roast malt, coffee, bakers chocolate. Hint of leather. flavour is more of the same nice roasted maltiness. coffee and bitter chocloate. Some tobacco tones in the finish. Very nice.

Bottle.Pitch black colour with creamy beige head.Aroma is creamy and rosted with taste of chocolate and coffee,nice well balanced and smooth good full body and rosted finish.

Bottle, bought @ Ølbutikken, Cph.
Pour is utterly, completely black with a big, initially fizzy, settling, frothy, beige head. Mildly sweet aroma, some roasted malts, light chocolate, a hint of fruity hops. Low carbonation, lovely creamy and dry mouthfeel - impressive for the ABV. Flavour is elegant, lots of roasted malts, good malty dry- and bitterness balanced well by good sweet chocolate and well-used fruity hops. Light vinious even for its low ABV - perhaps that’s because there is so much malty taste to it? Very good.

One of my favorite porters, hands down. Wonderfully balanced between chocolate and coffee, with a great head as well that provides that beautiful foam you’ve come to love.