Full Sail Top Sail Imperial Porter

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Hood River, Oregon USA

Bottle at Borefts 10am day after hotel tasting after a very bad drunk Borefts festival ... deep black ... smooth soft roast ... rich malt toffee roast ... quite dry

-Update 09/07/07 22oz bottle poured into a 10oz Samuel Smith nonic glass. The taste was really good with coffee and roast flavors coming out. Not sure why it is so much better four months later, aging perhaps? I plan on aging the other three bottles to see what happens. Yum. 22 oz bottle poured into a snifter. The color was black with a tan head that was quite fluffy. The taste was a little like milk chocolate but faint. The alcohol was undetectable. The body was a little thin. Overall I did not care much for this beer. I will still give the Full Sail Brewmaster’s Reserve a fair shake since Wreck The Halls was so good. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 05-07-2007 17:21:11

2009 vintage thanks to the big bad douglas88. The pour gives you a nice brown head to add a little bit of creamy texture to your initial experience. Toffee like aroma with a little bit of bittersweet chocolate in there. Flavor is mostly chocolate and cocoa with a little bit of bitterness on the back end. A faint, very faint touch of alcohol. A little thin for an impy porter and would love a little more body but this still goes down smooth and is very drinkable.

Deep black, opaque. Tan head. Malty aroma with some sweentess resembling Whoppers malted candies. Palate is a big malt whallop with some candied sugars and alcohol warmth. Very hearty beer. Finish is long and malty sweet with plenty of hops to balance it out. Very syrupy, in a good way.

A Mes rate. Bottle at Borefts 10am day after hotel tasting.
Almost black with a pillowy beige head. Lactic and milky, lots of chewy malt, yet somehow dry and hoppy. A good blend of bitter and sweet. Just that little bit different enough to make it interesting.

Bottle 65cl. @ post Borefts BF 09 hotel tasting [ As Full Sail Imperial Porter ].
[ Trade by Papsoe ]. Clear dark black color with a average, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, dark roasted, burnt, coffee, light to moderate hoppy, vanilla notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20091031]

’09 bottle. Poured black with a moderate beige head. Aroma is distinctively mocha like. Flavor is more chocolate and coffee, smoke, toast, a bit of acidicness, and a little hop bittering on the end. The finish also has an alcohol warmth, and I found that after it lingered a while there was a touch of grassiness to the hops. Has a nice full mouthfeel.

Bottle at post Borefts BF 09 tasting. Black brown, lasting beige head. Really lovely choccy flavours. Awesome really. Really good choc.