SKA Ten Pin Porter

Brewed by SKA Brewing
Style: Porter
Durango, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottle. Poured a dark brown with a short tan head that settles out to a ring. Aromas of vinegar, dark chocolate, and coffee. The flavor found dark chocolate, toasted malts, coffee, and light hops. Medium body, cocoa finish, light bitterness.

Pours a nice brownish black with a small tan head. Aroma is coffee, roast, chocolate malts, caramel. Flavor is roasted barley, coffee, chocolate, nuts, malt. Finises a touch chalky and bitter with a lingering nutty taste. Decent porter.

Bottle. Heavy malt notes of toasted, cereal, and mild coffee, moderate hop and yeast aromas of herbs and earth, with a hint of vanilla. Head is small, frothy, off-white, with fair lacing and is almost fully diminishing. Color is clear brown. Flavor is moderately sweet and acidic to start and finishes moderately acidic and sour. Palate is light to medium, watery and has a lively carbonation. Bold aromas from this Porter, but a blah finish in both flavor and feel knocks it down a bit.

Pours out a dark brown color with a small tan head. aroma has malts, coffee, and a small amount of sweetness. flavor was similar with a slight amount of bitterness in the finish.

The aroma is right for a porter with toasted malt, coffee, and hops. The appearance is brown with a large head. The flavor is like the aroma simple and moderately bitter. The palate is average. Overall a decent porter.

not much to talk about . tastes and smells kinda of soapy with a bit of astrigent all the way around. worth a try

(bottle). Pours a black color. Medium size tan colored head. Nutty aroma with light malt. Has a nutty taste. Finish is slightly abrasive. Soft carbonation.

I’m not entirely sure why the bottle I had was so much better than everybody else’s recent reviews, but I thought this was an okay beer, certainly not bad. Nose was pretty subdued, but I tasted banana, a little citrus, peatmoss, some hops, and alcohol. I honestly didn’t think it was bad-very odd.