Mill Street Coffee Porter

A brown beer with a small brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of chocolate combined with hints of roasted malt. The flavor is very light with notes of chocolate, and the mouthfeel is very carbonated and the body thin.

Bottled. Near black. Intense mocca aroma. Very roasty. Soft maltiness subdued by an overpowering coffee flavour. Salty licorice finish.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Sammy. Clear, reddish brown with a beige head. Distinct aroma of coffee with an ashy note. Medium-bodied with sweetish, roasted malt, some chocolate and distinct, burned coffee accents. Very subdued bitterness. 230807

Almost black – certainly looks nice. Huge coffee nose with the requisite vegetal notes of too many beans. This shows on the palate, too – all coffee beans and nothing else. The malts are thin, underdeveloped. Hops are nowhere to be found. All the bitterness is derived from the astringency of roast beans. This is completely unbalanced, and only marginally drinkable as a result. Coffee beers should have both coffee and beer.

(355ml bottle, stamped 6/22/05) Big beige head atop a dark brown body. Aroma is medium sweet, rich chococoffee. Taste is medium sweet, chococoffee. Watery light-medium body. Definitely improves when it warms, as the coffee becomes more pronounced and fuller. Strangely the coffee seems more stale at that point.