Pours black w/ a full, semi creamy, chocolatey froth. Hangtime is Mike like w/ full, textbook lacing . Aromas of bitter chocolate and mild cherry fruit. Full nectar w/ sliky, creamy effers. This stuff is thick and sticks to my palate like melted chocolate. Bakers cocoa is the rule here. Huge, chunky bitter cocoa malts w/ a mild roast component. Hops are defined yet not citrusy, it’s all aspring baby. The kind of asprin that numbs the palate so the decadent malts can be appriciated to the fullest. Man this is like chocolate milk w/ animal crackers. The sweetness factor is very mild. Leather has a cameo appearance and performs well. The finish is bittered mildly w/ asprin and leaves a lingering cocoa flavor. Good balance. Highly recommended.

Sampled a pint of this one on draught at the brewery in Hood River, OR. Pours to a deep brown to black color, with a thick, creamy, tan head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is fantastic, with excellent dark chocolate, coffee, and roasty aromas. The palte is firm, with good dark chocolate, coffee, and roast, on a very polished body. This beer finishes with more really excellent dark chocolate, coffee, and roast up front, then ends dry, with some piney hops and more coffee and roasty flavors that lingers. Outstanding porter, very robust, very flavorful, yet very drinkable. This beer is dangerously drinkable at 7.5% abv, so be careful with this one, as you will want to drink more than one of these.

Bottle from Topps in Tempe. The pour was dark deep brown-black, very thin initial head, no lacing, only spotty bubbles on the glass edges. The aroma was roasted choco-coffee, bubblegum, licorice. The flavor was roasted choco-coffee, bubble gum, licorice, faint dark fruits, all with a dry, lightly bitter finish. A very nice brew, wonderfully blended, nothing sticky about this one, yet very full of flavor, diverse, smooth.

My favorite dark beer. Almost a chocolate aftertaste. I really like the foamy brown head. Try it with Vanilla Ice Cream for an excellent Porter Float. No I’m not crazy this was suggested to me by a Full Sail rep!

Sampled from 45 deg to 55 deg F.
Pours a deep black color with a thick, rich beige head. The aroma seemed to really change from 45 deg to 55 deg...going from a sweet, fruity...plum, grape...character to a smokey, roasted one. the flavor changed as well. It begin by really showing off it's porter qualities (oh yes, this is definitely a porter) with sweet fruity tones and later took on a somewhat stoutish character with its roasted, smokey, coffee tones. Extremely smooth, velvety, creamy feel with a long finish. One of the very great American porters.