Lazy Boy Porter

Brewed by Lazy Boy Brewing
Style: Porter
Everett, Washington USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

from old rating note: on tap at some point on pacific n.w. trip. black pour with sizable tan head. aroma of coffee, chocolate and soy(?). cocoa and earthy tastes that somehow end up sour. has an off astringent vibe to it. good medium oily texture though. K7

22oz bottle from Liquid Solutions. Pours a deep coffee brown with a 2 finger thick tan head, very little lacing. Nose of canned coffee with some bitter sweet cocoa. Flavor was much like the nose, bitter sweet with coffee grounds.

Bomber. Poured deeper reddish-brown with just a light dusting of beige head. The aroma picked up sweeter, roasty black patent malts and lesser chocolate with a looming sour metallic character beneath. The flavor was mostly dry-roasted black patent with mild coffee bitterness surrounding.. the sourness was there again, and while not overwhelming, it didn’t help a bit.. finished with generic roasty black malts and metal. Medium-ish bodied and dry on the palate with off notes from was seems to be an infection.. the baddies didn’t completely wreck it, but it just wasn’t a very good porter.

22 oz. bottle via trade with scrizzz - Pours a dark brown color with a 3/4 finger thick tan head. Aroma is sweet cola, light chocolate, and light herbal hops. Very light lacing. Flavor is toasted caramel malt and light chocolate. Body is a tad thin and palate is dry. A decent beer, but seems lacking in all components to be a good Porter. Thanks Clint.

Bottle from Malt & Vine. Pours a dark black, but very little of the dark tan head. Aroma is the highlight of the beer. Okay flavor of vanilla, but not much else going on. Just a plain porter that stays on the tongue longer than it should.

Enjoyable textbook example of the style. Medium bodied with a big roasted coffee nose and mild earthy and floral hops. Roasted cocoa notes along with some wood and nuts.

From the bomber pours an extremely dark mahogany brown liquid topped with a smooth, foamy, mocha colored head. Soapy lacing dries to minimal spots. It certainly looks the part, but the nose hints at something less than stellar. The aroma shows dark cocoa and scorched caramel in the malt base, but there’s an odd, acrid, almost sour overtone that belongs nowhere near a porter. The flavor shows more of the same, bittersweet chocolate, dark caramel, and coffee roast are all there, but the sour, lactic funk just messes everything up. The palate is medium bodied, overly active, dry and fizzy. Infection maybe? There’s definitely something wrong here. Not a good beer.

On tap at Horse Brass during my only ever disappointing trip there. Flat and lifeless porter, no carbonation, no real complexity to the flavor and far too thin for my personal tastes.