Port Brewing Old Viscosity

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

cocoas, meat soy, light in body, a cool blend with grape an cherry flavors, a tad bit of fruit skin astringency, groovy. Creativity is a great thing.

Dark, oily, molasses, kind of aroma. Reminiscent of Harviestoun Old Engine Oil. Nearly opaque brown/black color with a tan head that rapidly ringed. Medium to full bodied with creamy carbonation. The flavors are disparate, but the alcohol heat is noticeable. There is dark toasted malt, coffee, cocoa, molasses, really overripe dark fruit, mouth puckering, enough bitter to balance the sweetness, at least mostly balance. There might be some cherry notes. This stuff gets thicker as you drink it. The finish is like oiliness that adheres to the mouth. It really sticks with you at the end - mostly bitter with some molasses. Quite complicated. But burnt organics usually are. Mouthsmackingly good.

I had this on draft at the 2006 Pizza Port Real Ale fest in Carlsbad. This brew has absolutely perfect mouthfeel: silky smooth. The flavors and aromas are explosions of chocolate. Loved it.

Pours a dark oily black with a medium tan head with decent lacing. Aroma of sweet toffee, coffee and spice. Flavor has plenty of roasted coffee, burnt malts, hints of piney hops, vanilla. Finish is dry and roasted finish, not long and not short. Full mouthfeel, average carbonation.

Pours dark like a porter. It’s a bit hot with the alcohol, but this is fairly rich, a little chocolate, rum raisins. Nice body, but this would probably age nicely.

Black in colour with a thin tan coloured head, good lacing. The aroma is malty, rich, chocolate, dates, raisins, lots of burnt christmas fruit cake and light alcohol. The flavour has some alcohol, chocolate malts, lightly sweet, some fruit cake and raisins. Alcoholic warming mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes long and quite warm.

This was fairly alcoholic. An Imperial Porter? Black barley wine? It okay as it is but wouldn’t hurt mellowing out a bit.

I got to try this again an it really has started to mellow out. Nice beer all round. Rating went from 3.5 to 4.0

650ml bottle obtained in a trade with Boutip, thanks Phil.
Opened on October 26, 2008.
No date.

From bottle courtesy of Naka. Sweet and chocolately, smoky and rich with a bit of broth - smells like a stout or smoky porter. Light bitter hoppiness. Dark, dark brown-black clear, with a thin lacing light-tan head. Heavy body, almost oily, with a medium carbonation. Starts with sweet malty coffee taste, brown sugar, smoke and molasses. Medium alcohol warming with decent acidity. Dry nutty bitter finish and after with some coffee-chocolatey finish. Nice ale, warming.

Bottle. Pours nearly black with tan head. Aroma is malt and chocolate. Flavor is malt, dark chocolate, vanilla, hint of anise. Very smooth and thick. Didn’t take good notes this time as I enjoyed this one while putting up some christmas lights, but I got more. Fantastic stuff.