Haymarket Black Sox Porter

Brewed by Haymarket Pub & Brewery
Style: Porter
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Superbly balanced porter with a foamy, beige and creamy head. Amarillo hops, dry malts and English chocolate round out this stunning beer.

Poured from tap at haymarket. Pours a dark brown color with a foamy head. Quite pungent with good complexity and aromas of roasted espresso beans, malts, chocolate, and some toffee tones as well. Full bodied with a real smooth feel. Very good depth as well with some power behind it and flavors of roasted malts, coffee beans, chocolate and there is even a citrus hint on the back end. This is a real quality porter. The citrus on the feel caught me a little surprised, but it was more in a good way than bad. This is one of the better beers I’ve had from haymarket.

Draft, pours black with tan head. Aroma has a wonderful big pine and hop resin and hint of orange citrus meshing well with a big roasty and chocolate malt beer. Flavors are very hoppy, juicy citrus and pine, lots of chocolate and coffee roast, earthy rye throughout with a long ashy and bitter finish. Full body. Really comes off more like a hoppy stout but whatever loads of amarillo in dark beer tends to work for me!

I think this is the best yet that I’ve tried from Haymarket, a nice robust porter something along the lines of Founder’s take on the style. It’s a pretty brown color w/ a dense head and lots of lace--pretty much perfect. The aroma is deep and chocolatey. The texture is creamy but the creaminess comes from fine carbonation so it does not come off as heavy. The flavor is a marriage of bitter chocolate and coffee. This is a wonderfully drinkable porter and one I look forward to having again.

On tap at Haymarket in Chicago. This was a nice and roasty porter with a good balance and flavor. Roasted coffee permeates throughout the nose, but without being overpowering. The rich caramel and powdery dark malts come off just slightly too sweet for my liking in an aroma. Earth and pine bitterness works well in the background. The body is well carbonated, mildly creamy, and well bittered. The flavor is a good mix of roasted dark malt, molasses, sweet dark fruits, earth, mellow citrus, and herb. All notes blend nicely together. This was overall, a porter done right. Well done.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a black body with a finger-width, creamy, brown head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is pretty solid. Nice English toffee and caramel with a good amount of chocolate. Well hopped with a light orange-pine and earth mix as well as a solid roast. Flavor is similar. Nicely hopped and roasted with a solid chocolate and caramel/toffee balance. Bittersweet cocoas up front with some orange pines and florals as well as some earth. Malts offer a thin and light sweetness before this ends with a moderate hop and roast bitterness that dries and leaves a lengthy aftertaste with a nice, light chocolate. Medium-light, somewhat creamy and smooth body with a soft, moderate carbonation. Very easy drinking and clean throughout. Overall, a really nice, fairly hoppy, well balanced porter with lots of bitter cocoas. Solid beer.

Draft at Haymarket. Pours a deep brown, nearly black with a tan head. Nose is nice, citrusy hops and fresh. Cocoa roast comes across as well. On taste, nice full flavor, mildly hoppy and a touch sweet. Cocoa really dominates here with a firm bitterness that balances and helps to dry it out. Finishes on the sweeter side. Pretty damn good porter, really.

Pours an opaque dark brown with a thin creamy light tan head. Nice rich roasty aroma with strongly evident piney hops. Flavor delivers the same with a nice balance of chocolatey dark roast and a resinous hop finish. Good!

Blacksox porter. 4oz sample at the source... Pours a darker stout pour with a creamy light beige head... Cocoa chocaltey nose although hard to place the hops .. roasty chocolate flavors with a medium sweetness along with an earthy coating feel in the mouth. Very light hoppy feel at the very end... Medium bodied. Solid porter. 7/4/8/4/14

4oz pour at haymarket. brown black with an off -white head. Loads of roasted/burnt malt on the flavor. Charcoal and that. Very roasty and proportionally less bitter a finish than you’d imagine. Body is perhaps a little thin.