Harpoon 100 Barrel Series #44 - El Triunfo Coffee Porter

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Porter
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bomber from Ale Yeah, Roswell. Pours a dark brown color with a large tan head. Fair head retention. Aroma of sweet coffee and chocolate, cocoa, mild hops, mild vanilla. The taste is coffee, chocolate, roast, nuts, faint fruits. Medium bodied. Nice beer.

Location: 22 oz bottle from State Line, 5/1/13

Aroma: The aroma is heavy roasted malts/coffee, some burnt notes, and some mild earth
Appearance: It pours a dark brown color with small beige head and some drippy lace
Flavor: The taste is medium-heavy roasted, some mild sweetness, and a lingering bitterness
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a tingly feel, and a dry, somewhat off finish
Overall Impression: This seemed like as good a beer as any for my first beer of May. Anyway, about this one is just a bit off. The nose and pours gave the impressions of a solid coffee porter, but something odd comes through in the taste and feel that doesn’t work for me at all. Overall, this one was disappointing because I really wanted to like it.

Bottle. Dark brown pour, light tan head. Roasted espresso, chocolate, earthy, light spiceyness, coffee grounds, and a bit of caramel malt. Decent coffee beer.

Aroma: Smelling of molasses, coffee, chocolate and candy.
Appearance: A hazy brown colored beer. An off-white head with small lacing and good curtains.
Taste: Tasting burnt bread, coffee, chocolate and candy.
Palate: Medium carbonation, a sticky texture. A medium body with a slightly dry finish.
Overall: Very much coffee. Really good.
Note: On-tap at a Harpoon Brewery tasting. Reviewed 2013-03-29.

Bottle. Pours very dark brown with a lacy, light tan head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate and roasted malts, some dough, and floral hops. Flavor the same, with a good amount of coffee. Average to smooth texture. A good coffee porter.

Bottle shared @ Oakquinox 2013. Dark brown pour with a khaki head. Nose is earthy coffee and roasted malt. Some hints of dark fruit, subtle spice, and chocolate. Light caramel sweetness. Coffee grounds flavor, roasted malt, and lots of earth. Mild spiciness, dark chocolate, and a bit of caramel sweetness.

On tap. Pours a dark black with an off-white head and lacing. It has a great aroma of spices, coffee, and dark, toasty malt. The flavor is dark malt up front with the coffee quickly taking over and leading to a spicy and slightly malty finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Perfect coffee aroma challenge is no sugar balance to the coffee This leads taste to a bit sour. Not really and not a bad beer probably best porter and at 6 percent pretty exceptional. Nice lasting head. Not thin for 6 percent nice brew if higher abv would be amazing

650 ml bottle courtesy of Ed5388. Thanks. Pours a dark brown color with a medium beige head that has fair retention. The aroma is big and bold with well roasted coffee, espresso and coffee grounds. The taste, like the aroma, is a big blast of coffee with other coffee related flavors such as mocha and espresso very prominent. The palate is a bit thinner than I would prefer and the carbonation is lively. Finishes long with a lingering aftertaste of coffee grounds. Overall: Very tasty stuff--fans of coffee beers will want to try this one.

Dark brown with a tan head. There’s coffee all over this aroma with some roast and maybe a little cocoa. Tastes basically the same: roast coffee. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Good.