Long Trail Brewmaster Series Imperial Porter

Brewed by Long Trail Brewery
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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draft at Pizza Plant Transit. Big roasty malt aroma. Hints of coffee & licorice. Taste is heavy roasted malts, some sweetness, hints of coffee & anise. Deep dark pour. Body might be atad light. Another good beer from Long Trail. Thumbs up to this recent run of good imperials

22 oz bottle. Dark brown with a spongy tan head. Nose is spruce and lime zest with coffee and rich cocoa in the back. Medium body with fine, stinging carb; finishing dry and resiny. Taste, like the smell, very hop, citrus forward. I’m thinking mocha key lime pie. Hints of espresso, orange peel and vodka. Pleasantly different, surprising.

Opaque black pour, chocolate milk colored head. Smells lightly of coffee/toffee, but heavy on the smoky flavor. Similar taste. Roast malts, coffee and toffee. Dark chocolate and even a little hoppiness in the background. Smooth, lightly bitter finish. Very tasty.

Draught at Capone’s: Aroma of hops, pine, citrus, and slight roasted malts. Poured very dark brown in color with a creamy, dense, medium-sized, brown head that lasted throughout. Clear. Slightly sparkling. Excellent lacing. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of coffee, chocolate, hops, light pine, slight roasting, and a hint of vanilla. Medium body. Thin, oily, slightly dry texture. Soft to average carbonation. Lightly sweet, coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt finish.

Bottle. Poured a nice black body with thin head. Aroma is grassy, chocolate and oatmeal. Flavor is bitter chocolate, coffee and hops. Light bitter finish and not too chalky like in most Imperial Porters. This one is a steal at it’s price!

Bottle. Black with at an head. Roast y coffee hints of lactose and sugar sweetness, a hoppy body with pine y accents. Sweet with a bitter finish. Good.

good but not great, i could not believe the amount of hops in this thing. it stunk of hops and tasted like hops also. very surprising. overall it was good but not fantastic, piney and smokey tasting with a bit of a bitter finish.

Bottle split with JRedmond, Big Guy, and the Ryapist. This will be my second brewmaster series and I must say is significantly better than the Coffee Stout - which was good! I am not much of a Porter guy and this sucker really worked me over. Totally made me rethink the way I view the style. Delicious roasted malts with spice pine hop. Insanely approachable palate, bubbly and inviting. The hops really opened up this bad boy

Bottle split with Pwn3d, PJ, and RYGUY. This pours a dark dark coca cola body with a small chocolate brown head. The aroma is surprisingly hoppy. The flavor is amazing - great hops, smooth roasty & smokey finish that is subtle underneath the hop flavor. Best porter I’ve sampled, hands down.

Bottle. Third in the brewmaster’s series. Still a great pick up due to their great prices, but this isn’t as great as the previous two brews. Black pour with tan head. Hoppy and dark malt flavors and aromas abv is hidden.