Palmetto Porter

Brewed by Palmetto Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Charleston, South Carolina USA

12oz bottle brought back by a friend. Dark brown pour with a medium tan head. Malty aroma with chocolate and roasty coffee. Coffee flavor up front with sweet malt, chocolate and a roasty finish. Light colored pour made me think it would be weak, but it’s a solid porter.

Pours a deep very dark chestnut brown almosr black color with dark mahognay edges when held to a light source and a 1.5 finger foamy beige head thar quickly dissipates into a lasting ring and cap leaving minimal lacing. Smokey roasted malt aroma with chocolate, caramel, hazelnut, oatmeal, toffee, coffee bean and burnt toast notes. Medium body with a huge smoked/roasty malt presence. Chocolate malt, oatmeal, toffee, espresso beans are all very prominent in the flavor with subtle hops and a nice hazelnut and lactic caramel taste. This is a pretty complex beer for the style and is very well balanced. Roasty and sweet with a nice bitter dry finish. Extremely quaffable.

12oz bottle courtesy of fatboyjim1 poured into a tulip. Pours dark chestnut brown out of the bottle and settles in almost completely black in the glass. An aggressive pour produces a huge creamy tan head that lasts for a long, long time and leaves great lacing. The aroma is dominated by a dry, roasted malt smell with hints of espresso and dark chocolate. There honestly isn’t much in the way of sweetness in the aroma. The taste is all about the dry roasted espresso with hints of dark malt sweetness in the background. There is a bit more chocolaty sweetness than in the aroma, but the coffee is still the major player here. The mouthfeel is highly carbonated and tingly on the palate. This beer surprised me and is a top notch porter. Having read some of the previous reviews, it is fairly evident that Palmetto decided to dial up the coffee presence and this coffee lover certainly enjoyed that decision.

12oz bottle, purchased at Charleston Beer Exchange. Pours very deep brown with a bit of a reddish hue, topped with a moderate sized tan head. Nice fresh roasted coffee aroma, with highlights of cocoa and smoke. Roasted chocolate malt and espresso hit the palate first, and are joined by caramel and mild hops. Bittersweet chocolate finish. Flavor is not quite as impressive as the aroma, but its still a tasty beer.

bottle, Poogan’s Porch charleston. dark brown body, lighter amber brown at edges. medium tan head, foamy and rocky. aroma is roasted coffee, light caramel malt, faint pine needles and sweetgrass. flavor is mostly deep roasted coffee, a little metallic, some dry sweetgrass.

It pours as black as oil with a thick (but small), caramel head. When you smell the intense aroma, you know you’re in for a treat. A host of many big flavors, coffee being an obvious one. Dry, hoppy finish. All around a satisfying, filling beer.

Nearly black with an average sized light tan head. Aroma is of chocolate, roasted malts and cocoa. Taste is roasty with a sweet chocolate finish.

Thanks be to Mr. Pitonka.. in SEATTLE.. for providing this Want List beer from SOUTH CAROLINA! Poured healthy deeper brown with garnet highlights and a moderate cap of beige head. The aroma picked up roasted chocolate, some generic black patent malts, and sweeter caramel with earthy accents.. nothing exciting, but soft and well-presented. The flavor had well-roasted, near-charred black patent character with spots of baker’s chocolate.. bitterness was mild and earthy again.. finished dry. Light-medium bodied with low and ideal carbonation on the palate.. a tad scratchy and dehydrating at the end. Solid brew.