Lost Duck Pelican Porter

Brewed by Lost Duck Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Fort Madison, Iowa USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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UPDATED: JUL 10, 2006 I tried this one again at the brewpub. It was about the same. Still thin and watery. Just bland more than anything. Sampled from a guest tap at the Old Capitol brewpub in Iowa City. Poured with a dark brown body and some ruby showing through. The aroma is interesting with fresh gingerbread. There is also some maple and hay. The taste has old tea with cola and some light roasted character. There are also some peanuts. Nothing bad here, just a little thin.

6 oz draft pours black with a tan head. Not much aroma and kind of funky taste. My least favorite. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

A very rich beer but to much roasted taste for my liking. Could not taste the hint of cherry or raisins as I was told was in there. There are better Porters out there.

Pours a deep amber brown with a medium tight head. The aroma has some tomato and other vegetal notes with some light coffee, largely weird. The flavor has a light coffee flavor with some chocolate, some slight hops and some freaking tomato. No more tomatoes in the porter please.

From the tap, served for my personal taste, too cold and over carbonated, in a pint glass. Poured a dark cola brown with a small off-white head that settled into a fine lacing. Aromas of chocolate and root beer, a soft banana fruitiness, and traces of coffee. Fizzy carbonation and a malty crisp, a tad rough in the palate from the over carbonation, medium-light bodied mouthfeel. Drinkable, but bland tasting porter, even after I let warm up a bit, light coffee with milk, a little chocolate with the banana fruitiness, the root beer flavor again, and a softly malty bitter finish. Not one of my favorites at the Duck, pretty ordinary, but maybe I like porters too much to find this acceptable, one glass and I’m done.

Draught at the brewpub. Opaque black color with disappearing thin off white head that left no lace. There was a whiff of anise but not much aroma otherwise. Tastes of milk chocolate and a touch of roasted malt. Slightly sweet on the tongue.

UPDATED: JAN 3, 2006 Deep reddish brown, more old slightly burnt weak coffee than fresh espresso, maybe some nutmeg but I don’t get the chocolate I expect in a Porter. Little aroma. This is drinkable but I agree with Heemer--"thin," not much finish or complexity.