3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Nose is roasted coffee, weak malt, creamy notes, feel is mediumweak, carb is mediumlow, taste is rotten fruit, some wood/port, rye
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours a dark brown color with a brown head. Probably the darkest head I’ve seen on a porter. Aroma is rich of roasted malts, chocolate, slight coffee, molasses, and just a very slight hint of alcohol. Begins with a very strong roasted malt flavor with lots more coffee then the aroma led on to believe. The roasted flavors give way to the sweeter flavors of molasses and dark fruit. Has a pretty decent, slight bitterness on the finish that I was not expecting. A very delicious porter.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled. Beer is very dark warm brown, nearly opaque. Head is large, creamy, beige, frothy and diminishing. Seagulls on the snifter. The aroma is full, rich, strikes a nice balance between resinous hop and roasty malts. Malty with moderate-to-heavy notes of roasted grain, chocolate, moderate notes of molasses, coffee, light notes of toasted bread crust, creamy roasted nut butter; Moderate-to-heavy notes of resinious hop, lighter amounts of herb/thyme and grapefruit oil, traces of sweet tobacco; Light yeasty note of basement, trace of dough. Intermittent trace notes of woody vanilla, cola and tropical fruit. The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter, trace acidic with a longish, warm, lightly bittersweet finish. The body is full, the texture is velvety and the carbonation is lively. Luxe in every repect.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml. bottle. Black with a small tan head. Aroma begins with light coffee notes, followed by dark roasted malts, dark chocolate and some perfumey hops. Flavor starts off bitter/sweet, with the roasted malts at the forefront. The coffee is not as strong as it was in the aroma. Dark chocolate and almonds also come through. Strange, astringent finish, combined with the bitterness left my palate feeling beat up. The more I drank this beer the less I liked it.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle: Thanks to ramenen. Solid porter; had as dessert. Food Paring: Vanilla ice cream with fudge.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tried at SIB. Like many beers, this one needs to warm a little before you’re able to get the full effect of the taste. Lots of smooth chocolate with a little coffee and moderate roast. Pretty tasty porter...would definitely have again.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours very dark black with a medium beige head. Aroma is filled with dark malts--chocolate, coffee, caramel, with some dark fruit and nut smell. Flavor is similar, lots of chocolate, coffee roastiness, some smoke even. Bittersweet finish from malt. Delicious.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
@ a tasting, pours black with some red taints and creamy tan head, aroma of caramel, oak, whiskey, cherries, vanilla and butter, flavor is smokey like charcoal and cigar with some espresso notes. Medium bodied. Nice
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