Shorts Publican Porter

Brewed by Shorts Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Bellaire, Michigan USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle from Ölbutikken, Copenhagen. Black beer with a quite nice beige/brownish head. Roasted malt aroma, chocolate, cocoa powder, licorice, cream, vanilla notes, cigarettes, hay, raisins and figs. Roasted chocolate flavor, tobacco, peat, hay, licorice, vanilla notes. Peat finish with tobacco, licorice, dark chocolate, some figs.

Yes yes yes. Thick, rich, very dark, sexy. Smooth, a little spice, choc, that winey coffee thing you get with a good porter. Some chew.

12oz bottle thanks to Timbo
Appearance: Pours black with a medium sized dark tan head and good lacing
Aroma: Roasted malts, rich chocolate, coffee and vanilla
Taste: Roasted malts, grainy, dark roast coffee and chocolate
A nice rich porter.

In short: A sweet biscuity-chocolaty porter without much personality and lacking in the mouthfeel department. Just a decent beer overall.
How: Bottle 12oz. Consumed when around 6 months of age. Bottle from sarro, thanks a lot Kyle.
The look: Black body topped by a persistent small tan head.
In long: Nose is medium roasty and some chocolaty pastry. Malt bill brings forward a strong grainy cookies sensation, chocolate cookies, caramel cookies. Also noted some char, a bit of coffee, some wet tobacco. A thick juicy mouthfeel sensation but without almost any fruity flavors. Low-medium carbonation level, could have used more bubbles. For a near 9% brew I thought this stale juicy mouthfeel was unsatisfying. A mild bittersweet black chocolate bitterness. Feels rather sweet. Alcohol is mostly well hidden. Nothing bad in this beer but also nothing remarkable. Well brewed but unexciting, a straightforward big black beer that I found inoffensively drinkable, something’s missing. In nowadays beer scene this beer seems trailing behind a bit, old-fashioned and behind its time this beer should be called Republican Porter.

Bottle. This is an excellent porter. Rich dark color. Great malt chocolate aroma. Very thin head. Nice bite and not too bitter.

Pours a deep brown black with a light brown full head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee and chocolate. This beer is a strong dry sipper. Well done.

12oz bottle. Pours dark black with thin mocha head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, and dark chocolate.Taste is roasted malt, burnt toffee, light coffee and cocoa.

12 oz. to pilsner glass, pours motor oily with a dense tan head. Nose is subtle but bittersweet chocolate and M&M’s. Initial mouthfeel is smooth which leads into a roasty bite that almost makes you think stout and then it smooths out again just before getting bittersweet chocolately. Mouthfeel is medium-full and carbonation is just a nip above medium as well. M&M’s seriously and I love it, well done shorts. Sometimes joe flies off the handle all crazy and sometimes he just makes a solid kick ass beer, this is the later.

Nose has a good dose of chocolate and brown sugar. Mild roast. Flavor is much more roasty and a bit acrid in the finish.

This review is exported from olutopas.info with no comment. Original rating date 25.4.2009