Date: 09/29/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

clear brown, fine beige head, bits of drippy lace, light chocolate aroma with a butterscotch sweetness, creamy body partually due to the dyactyl, flavor starts of sweet with chocolate and caramel and then makes an abrupt uturn with a strong tartness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2.3/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: *+/4

Bottle: Pours a transparent copper brown with a thin, spotty-lacing off-white head. Aroma of lightly roasted, dry, nutty character with a hint of diacetyl. Body starts thin, buttery, and with plenty of infected acidity. Blah, a drainpour. I have not had a good beer from them yet.

Sample at the brewpub. Gets a point for great head retention but loses a couple for being very light and transparent brown...not very porter-like...roasty-sweet choocolate and faint nuts in the nose is a good step towards tolerable from this place, but the moderately roasty body is undone somewhat like all of these products by the damn hard water and alkaline/metallic texture. Tolerable.

Headless, but actively lacing nonetheless, this dark brown brew has a lightly roasted, caramelly aroma, almost corny sweet. Quite spritzy in the mouth for a porter. The flavor is a one dimensional roasted barley with little else. Drinkable, but why?

Thanks & a tip o’ the hat to El_Borracho and RAYBOY01.