Left Hand Black Jack Porter

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Porter
Longmont, Colorado USA

Bottle. Coal black with thin brown head. Aroma of chocolate and soy. Coffee flavour to start with, then turns into something more flowery, only to finish with a dry creamy chocolate. A bit unbalanced and weird, but till interesting, refreshing and not too heavy.

Now this is a damn good porter. More tasty than most. Aroma was a little weak. HInts of chocolate were there but slight. Pour was a deep dark brown with a thin tan ring for a head.The flavor was big for a porter. Strong chocolate malt in the beginning which is very sweet. Then a bitter roastiness comes in and balances it out with a dry finish. Thick and chewy but with a lot of carbonation. Nice.

Bottle. Pours a very dark brown color with a decent sized tan colored head. Aroma is chocolate, coffee tones, roast, light hops. Flavor is chocolate, coffee, toast, light floral. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation, finishes bitter and clean. Very good.

this beer pours a deep brown almost black color with a medium tan head leaving some good lacing down the sides. there is some good smoked smell as well as hints of vanilla and something else I cannot put my finger on. The flavors are kinda unmelded, if that makes any sense. They don’t really complement themselves. Lot’s of carbonation which I typically don’t expect, and the smokyness comes out very wierdly. Don’t know how to explain it. Not one of the better porters I’ve had! Cheers!

Has a decent sweet malt aroma to it. I smell some alcohol, but not much. If I keep smelling I can pick up faint smells of caramel malts. Aroma is kind of weak, but for what it is it is not bad. The color of the beer is almost completely black. I see some very dark brown hues in the beer. The beer, in my opinion, can be considered black in color. The beer did not have a long lasting head. I have not smelled chocolate thus far. If the beer would have had that distinct chocolate brown head, the appearance would have received a 4. Decent taste, a faint chocolate and coffee flavor. This is pretty good. I love the roast flavor as well. The only problem is the taste does not stay around a long time. The roast flavor sits on the back of my mouth, but you could expect that because a roast flavor does not every go away quickly. The beer is definitely not creamy enough to be a porter, if you ask me. If they would just tweak a few things on this beer it would be awesome. Overall, pretty good brew.

Bottle. Kinda sweet and stale. Some caramely sweetness. Some light roasty bitterness and some alcohol comes through. Some metallic notes.

Soft brown liquid, some alcohol and some toffee and dark chocolate. Not too sweet. Enjoyable.

355ml bottle from Utobeer. Very dark ruby colour with lasting thin beige head. Once you get through the overly upfront American hop, the aroma offers decent choc with slight coffee, but mostly it is chocolate. Smooth in mouth, slightly grainy in mouthfeel towards the end with decent choc flavours. Spritzy on the finish. But why would you put a lot of lime and grapefruit on a choccy porter? No idea and frankly nor does this beer. Nothing wrong with it. Just not a pale ale nor a porter.