 dm9831 (601), Monee, Illinois, USA
Mar 23, 2008 dark brown, tan bubbles on top. sweet and malty aroma. sweet flavor; coffee with cream & sugar. a little cloying. thin sweet finish. too sweet for me. tasted at
Rock Bottom Chicago First Annual ROCK
FEST
Cornfield (4332), Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
Mar 23, 2008 This one was too sweet for me. It had a very dark brown body with a beige ring for a head. The aroma was sweet with dark caramel and toffee and brown sugar. That pretty much describes the flavor. This really needed some heavier hopping to balance it out. First Annual RockFest, Rock Bottom Chicago, 3/22,2008
BeerBelcher (745), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Mar 3, 2008 This beer struck me as being pleasant but a pretty unmemorable porter. Some nice roastiness, but not much different than many other porters and stouts out there.
Appearance was decent - a rather thin texture of opaque black with 1 cm of light white-tan head. Aroma was fairly faint; I think this beer was served too cold and that hurt my ability to pick-up much from it. I got some roastiness, and maybe a touch of chocolate, but not nearly intense enough to be really impactful. Flavor was more dark roastiness which wasn’t intense enough to make me think of "burned pizza crust" but was nonetheless pleasant. Mouthfeel was thinner than some but by no means watery.
Not bad, just not really above average. I would have it again when visiting Rock Bottom - Milwaukee, but I wouldn’t go back for this beer.
I had this on-tap at the restaurant over a hot pretzel, which I would HIGHLY recommend (the pretzel).
JPDIPSO (4267), Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
Oct 26, 2007 (Milwaukee - 10/22/04) Dark brown color with a smaller tan head. Sweet chocolate, light peat and light fruit (pear). Earthy chocolate flavors, dry, with a touch of licorice. Herbal and black malt bitterness carries from the finish into the linger.
Ughsmash (3071), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
Oct 22, 2007 On tap at R.B. - Milwaukee. Poured a darker brown with just a light ring of beige head. Roasted darker chocolate in the aroma with a bit too much alcohol evident.. some light cocoa powder too. Burnt dark chocolates and alcohol in the flavor along with some earthy bitterness.. just too boozy for a beer of this size. OK feel on the palate with sharper boozy notes toward the back. Not a good porter.
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