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Port Brewing Santas Little Helper

Port Brewing Santas Little Helper

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An Imperial Stout brewed by
Port Brewing/Lost Abbey

San Marcos, California USA

bottled
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on tap
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3513.95/5.03.94/5.0Winter9.5%74.6 Snifter P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Everything but the kitchen sink…Great Western Premium Two Row, Wheat, Carvienne, Caramunich, 95-115, 135-165L Crystal Malts, Chocolate, Roasted and Black Barley and Pale Chocolate. We also add some Brown Sugar and some Dark Belgian Candi Sugar to boost the Original Gravity. The beer is hopped with East Kent Goldings, Mt. Hood, Liberty, and Challenger. It is unfiltered with an OG of 1.094 and 10.0% ABV. Proprietary Ale Yeast.

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 pineypower (845), Pine Barrens, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20

Apr 20, 2008  
Pours black with a tiny lacing off white head. Aroma is of molasses and cinnamon with some coffee and roasted malt. Taste is of cinnamon, molasses, brown sugar, chocolate some coffee in there also. Solid beer, looking back I probably should have drank it on Christmas rather than in spring, none the less this was solid.

 Retorp (2148), Tampa, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Jul 18, 2008  
Dark Chocolate, soy, cocoa, fudge and vanilla with lots of roast/burnt malt notes. Full black body with a thumb thick, lasting, mocha head. Soft low carbonation feel on the first sip, char, roast, dark fruit, burnt malt, baker’s chocolate and bittersweet chocolate, coffee and hints of brown sugar and molasses.


 pint_size (1001), Austin, Texas, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Jul 13, 2008  
7-3-08 bottle shared with lb4lb thanks to JW77
Dark black brown pour with a nice tan head. Smell is subtle alcohol and roasted sweet malt. Flavor is roasted malt but has a touch too much present alcohol. Mouthfeel is almost syrupy yet seems thin on the tongue with no carbonation.


 lb4lb (1275), Austin, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jul 4, 2008  
Bottle courtesy of JW77. Thanks!
Pours black with a nice tan head. Smell is roasty, and metallic with a hint of alcohol showing as it warms. Taste is roasty, moderately bitter and hopped, and a hint of dry coffee. Thin compared to most imperial stouts with medium carbonation. Drinkable, but not much above an average imperial stout for me. Just a bit thin and boring, but still well enough made.


 Dogbrick (2166), Columbus, Ohio, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Jun 17, 2008  
Sample at the Most Honorable SuperHappyFun Stout Tasting. Bottle from Park Lane Liquor in Lancaster, CA. This beer pours pitch black with a medium and foamy light brown head that diminishes slowly. Rings of lacing on the glass. Chocolate, coffee and vanilla in the nose. Full-bodied with flavors of coffee, cocoa and roasted malt, plus some vanilla and raisins. The finish is rich and flavorful with a nice vanilla mocha aftertaste. Good all around.


 desurfer (1024), Pinellas Park, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
May 7, 2008  
Pours an opaque brown, yeasty with a thick head. Sweet chocolate aroma. Rich, roasty and woody flavor. Bitter finish.




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