3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Really good beer. The aroma is malts and light sweet hops. The taste is roasted malts coffee and finishes hoppy.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught pours deep brown with a khaki head. Aromas are chocolate and vanilla. Tastes are cocoa, chocolate syrup, vanilla and roasted malt. Very smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Like velvet, very good. Up there with Founders Porter, which is saying something.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured into a shaker from a 12 ounce bottle best before 7/1/12.
A: Clear deep garnet body with a thick dense rocky head. Very appealing.
S: Rather faint sweet milk chocolate. I wish it were stronger here.
T: Sweet milk chocolate into a slightly roasted coffee and ending with bitter dark chocolate. Good balance here.
M: Medium bodied, slight sharp carbonation hits the tongue late.
O: Not as flavorful as other offerings like Founders Porter, but still a solid and very easily available porter worth trying.
3.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Outstanding porter, bottle. Dark pour, blah, blah blah, buy it, drink it, and come tell me what you didn’t like. Perhaps it wasn’t the fine body and malty roasted coffee notes. Perhaps the bittersweet finish wasn’t quite right, oh well, please let me know your Porter that does it better than this one,
I have sampled plenty side by side , and this one is no slouch.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Dark translucent brown with a tint of red and a thin tan head. Roasty malt, cocoa, coffee flavor with a slight bitterness. Strong and punchy finish. A very good porter.
3.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
I’ll admit i’m a Great Lakes fan. All of their beers are solid and very drinkable.
This beer pours dark dark brown and only allows a little light around the edges. Good size tan head on my pour out of the bottle. I was a little congested when tasting this beer so I couldn’t get a great whiff. The only smell I could get was a malty aroma.
Strong porter flavor - coffee, chocolate and toasted malt at the end. Medium heavy mouthfeel. A great porter that embodies the style.
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3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pretty good porter, not exceptional but rather easy drinking, I’d try it but don’t love it.
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3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nice dark color, quite a light scent. Has a decent caramel/coffee taste, with a weird burnt after taste.
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