Pizza Port Pier Rat Porter

Brewed by Pizza Port (San Clemente)
Style: Porter
San Clemente, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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On tap 4 oz. sampler at Pizza Port in San Clemente, CA. Opaque, near black with khaki head and excellent lacing. Aroma of weak coffee, chocolate, roasted malt and dark fruit. Taste of dark roasted malt, berries, chocolate, smoke, caramel and hops. Medium/light body and high carbonation. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

On tap at Pizza Port , San Clemente, pours a dark brown black with a small head. Nose is malty and chocolate, and pleasant. Taste is strong malt with coffee espresso flavor. Finish is sweet and ends with the same flavors it starts with . Nice. Quaff Score 8/ 10

On tap at pizza port San Clemente. Pours a dark brown with a brown head and aroma of roasted malt and chocolate. Taste is of roasted malt, sweet chocolate notes, and coffee with a chocolate, toasty finish. Delicious porter

Big and black from the tap to the glass with a small tan head. Nose is coffee, chocolate, light toffee and dried pine needles. Taste is more bitter than sweet. Dare I say slightly off balanced. Not by much though. Mouthfeel is crisp cold and soften and smoothed out a bit as it warms, body is medium and the finish is long. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tap. Nice dark brown pour with a wispy tan head. Roasted malt, milk chocolate, some dark fruit notes, and coffee nose. Flavor is roasty, dark bread(pumpernickel), coffee and chocolate. Pretty nice stuff!

Poured from a growler is has a dark brown color. The nose has nuts, mollasses. Taste has vanilla, cocoa and a roasted flavor. Smooth finish.

Draft. A really good porter. Plenty of Earth, roast, coffee and nuts. The body was medium and the finish was dry, somewhat chalky, and bitter sweet.

Tap at Pizza Port San Clemente. Pier rat porter. Pours deep cola to brune with a deeper mocha head. Nose is thicker roast and muted caramel/coffee. Taste is quite bitter, roasty, semisweet chocolate. Bits of cardboard in the finish but overall very clean on the palate. Perhaps a bit soily, earthy, raw. Very simple, no nonsense robust porter with proclivity towards to bitter end of the spectrum for style. Easily sessionable. I can see why it would win GABF Gold. But I think I’ll just take another Dawn til Dusk.

24/05/2011 Brasserie 4:20 (tap). Nera con riflessi rubino-violacei, schiuma frizzante color beige, mediamente persistente. Aroma abbastanza complesso, di liquirizia, spezie, caffè e cioccolato. In bocca intenso aroma di caffè, cioccolato e liquirizia, con note metalliche e appena affumicate nel finale. Non molto strutturata, corpo medio, molto carbonata. Più simile a una sweet stout che a una classica porter. Certamente buona, ma non eccezionale come mi era stata presentata.

Draft at Haymarket, pours dark brown with tan head nose nice roast and dark chocolate citrus and pine hop notes, fl milk chocolate citrus slight medicinal too good roast water finish just okay