Port Brewing Old Viscosity

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: American Strong Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Bottle: I love American strong ales that are real dark but this is way over the top and almost like a mocha porter or rich stout. Aroma is dominated by roasted malt plus scents of vanilla and toffee. The drink is heavy with flavor and texture creating a smooth and rich palate with very low carbonation but just enough to keep me pleased. Dark and deep roasted character is the main flavor but vanilla and coffee bean become noticed. I kinda was expecting a real good strong ale but instead i got a stout.

Bottle. Nearly opaque, black body with a rapidly diminishing tan head. The aroma is mainly malty sweet with notes of molasses, dark chocolate, roasted malts and caramel. It also has hints of vanilla, ripe fruit, flowers and alcohol. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, moderately bitter and moderately acidic. The fnish is moderately sweet and moderately to heavily bitter. Medium to full body with a slightly thin, but still smooth, texture. Moderate carbonation. Smells and tastes like an imperial stout.

Pour is thick, oily black with a thin-density 3-finger sized head. Aroma is vanilla bean and bourbon, oak with coffee. Taste to match with strong cocoa added in. Palate is rich.

Thick and black body with thin chocolate head. Coffee, chocolate, licorice and lots of roasted malt. A big beer that I would have no problem putting a couple down of since it’s so damn good. Alcohol is pretty subdued. Slightly bitter finish. Taste lingers forever.

Shared by bgburdman and Bruno--Son of Professor--at C-bus tasting #4. Roasted malt aroma with a slight hint of bourbon or brandy. Black in color with a tan head. Very full palate adds to the experience. Tangy and bitter roasted malt taste hits first followed by solid chocolate hints and roasted coffee flavors as well. Very good.

bottle thanks to sparky27. awesome beer. a little confused by the style category. poured a dark brown almost black with a chocolate brown head. aroma was malt, coffee, dark roast, dark fruit comes out more when it warms up a bit. flavor was coffee, chocolate, veinous, and alcohol. body was full with mild carbonation. overall a great beer. thanks eric!!

black body, (even my led flash does not penetrate the brew), medium, quickly disappearing tan head, nice lace. really attractive beer. nose of chocolate, roasted malt, maybe a touch of coffee. flavor seems to lean more toward roasty coffee, but there are toffee hints, chocolate hints and a roasty malty aftertaste. medium bodied, with a hoppy bitter finish. the alcohol is too well hidden (i enjoy getting hit over the head by a big alcohol mallet), but a very well done effort, which i would do again, although i am not sure it is sessionable.

(22 oz. bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/massachusetts/w target=blank>Julio’s Liquors, cellared for 8 mos. after purchase) Tasty and complex...Pours very dark brown, looks opaque, 1/4" of tan head that settles to a thin lasting layer. Aroma of molasses, raisins, dark fruits, rum, coffee and chocolate. Yum. Mouthfeel thick and smooth. Nice fine rings of weepy lacing. Flavor is dark fruits, molasses, coffee roast and dark chocolate. Alcohol is not well-hidden but doesn’t detract too much. Medium-bitter coffee finish. This is very much like an Imp Stout, perhaps without the port-like flavors. Good.