Koff Porter

Pours a very nice deep brown with a thin, milk chocolate colored head. Aroma is roasted coffee and chocolate malted milk balls. Tastes a bit smoked, with milk chocolate, and strong brewed coffee. Nice full mouthfeel and ends a tad bitter. I really like this one. A good find!

Bottle/Ludwig’s. Nice rootbeer tufty lightbrown head head on mahogany almost black beer. Rum raisin wood chocolate roasty bitter chocowood... rummy log cabin...dark fruit...perty good. Re-rate: bottle from oliver’s. Wasn’t so great; lagery corn aroma, blackbread, corny can flavors, burn molasses. May have been old, the imports at Olivers have to be chosen carefully, they don’t seem to have good turnover. Not altering the numerical rating much as a result of skepticism that this is the beer’s fault.

Roasted nose, jet black color, tan spongy head. Licorice tastes, bitter chocolate bitter. Coffee end - fairly bitter. Medium body. Crisp texture, but smooth as well. Bold porter. Nice one.

I just smiled when I pour this one. Looked like iodine and the froth rose like a balloon filled with chocolate ice cream. Hung there all rocky w/ a lingering fluffy lace. Beautiful! Aromas of sweet roasted malt. Medium nectar w/ mild carbonation creating a silky texture. A strong roast component kicks in pushing flavors of dark cocoa, coffee, leather. A mellow hop factors in on the end that lends a nice balanced bitterness to it. The finish s bittered well w/ lingering charcoal. Not sweet at all ending w/ a slight lactose souring. .

bottle, from Downeast Bev. Co. pours balck, with one of the darkest heads i’ve seen. just beautiful. aroma is of bannana and chocalate with some mocha. strong burnt malt flavor, with bitter chocolate. hints of vannila maybe some caramel too. nice hint of hops in the finnish gives it some bite. leaves a coffee aftertaste on the palate. well balanced. smooth and creamy. not a hint of alcohol. definatly one of the best porters i’ve tried.

damn. Probably the darkest pour I’ve ever witnessed. Thick as oil she was, with a head of dark mocha walking 15 miles upwards. Cascades beautifully. Couldn’t really pick a solid nose off this. Didn’t have that offsetting tangent you sometimes get with porters. Taste....surprising indeed. Struck me as if I had swallowed the contents of an ashtray at the New Yorker (No one at the New Yorker has anuses.). Strong dark chocolates flow around a waff of cigar smoke while sitting in my favourite smoking jacket. Pitty it was brewed well after Washington’s time, im sure he would have given the thumbs up.

Yummie - thanks a lot Juha! Opaque colored with a nice huge hazelnut brown head on top that lastes long. Clay and band aid, also roasted malt nose. Smooth - bitter, raosted malt taste that lasts long. Nice one!

330mL bottle found on discount beer rack presumably because it is past date - best by date indicates June ’03. Pours with gorgeous dark tan tight large head leaving all kinds of lace. More or less completely opaque black color. Strong chocolate and coffee and dark malt aroma. Fantastic full malt/chocolate flavor with fairly clean roasted finish. Love this beer. And to think - all I’d had of Finland before was Lapin Kulta and I thought that was a decent pilsener....