Scotch Irish Vanilla Bean Porter

TFOB. Great beer, nicely balanced with tastes of vanilla , coffee , chocolate and cinnamon which all nicely blended together.

Cask at beer fest 2007 nose of coffee, and lotsa cinnomen and chocolate. flavor is similar nice and smooth very well done

I sampled this one at Volo. Much like the plain porter version in the taste and look department, but has an amazing nose of vanilla. A nice twist on a porter.

From cask at the Castle on King. Wow what can I say about Canada’s new micro brewed super star? The Pulled pint produced a sticky, dead black ale with a rich thick mocha cap that lasted. Phenominal nose to this brew. Never have I seen 4 aromas marry with such a natural result...the vanilla predominates but does not "dominate" the aroma...Vanilla-toffee-cocoa-bready...wonderful nose to this. Moderatly rich body, silky mouth feel, rich vanilla-cocoa semi-dry character. Up front the malts pound the tongue as I never experienced in a porter, astringent "char" from black malt husks is subdued by the natural vanilla tones. Mid palate we get a swirl of cocoa, nuts, vanilla-toffee and a wonderful light bittering which supports the other flavors...finish is long and complex with light drying and bittering riding above the vanilla-caramel-coca tastes...light bready after taste. A world class flavored porter.....from cask there is none better.

on tap at the Toronto Beer Fest Wow, very nice! the vanilla really comes out, its subtle, but its there in a big way. very smooth, and the coffee, and smokiness of the porter are still very detectable, superb!