Smuttynose Robust Porter

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Pours light body black with tan head. Great roasted malt and coffee aroma. Taste is slightly musty with good malt, coffee, brown sugar and molasses... but not sweet.

12oz bottle coutesy of cbkschubert, Craig gave me this one for hosting a gathering at the house. Aroma was like walking in to a musty bar room or that you would get waling into a liquer store in the west. Black body with dark chocolate head. Good lacing and head covered the top of body thoughout beer. Carbination noticable along with some sweetness and tobacco. Mild to medium sweet dry tobacco leaf on palate . Thanks, Craig.

12 oz. bottle. Consumed at cellar temperature. Poured a beautiful oily black with tan frothy head that did not last long. Not much lace. Nose is of roasted malt and mild coffe. A bit bitter at first. Taste is of coffee, espresso, molasses, brown sugar. I loved it. Mildly bitter aftertaste. Did I mention I loved it.

What a nicely brewed Porter. Big nose of roasted barley, chocolate, and espresso. The pour is a gorgeous oily black with a tan head. Some robustness in flavor initially suggests this might be a baltic porter...but the texture is somewhat thinner and less assertive. The burnt and roasty flavors are complex and exceptionally well melded.

12 oz brown bottle purchased at the Beer Store in Moon. Interesting label, black & white old time photo with a strongman holding some circus chick. Pop the lid and you get that aroma of stout or porter, you know, roasty and burned wood. I must admit, it is a little milder smelling than most stronger porters. The color is opaque dark brown or black and there is a thin ring around the inside of the glass for a head. Barely any lacing around the inside of the glass as you drink. The taste has a bitter impact almost like a Baltic or imperial porter. A little more personality than I care for in a porter. The alky content is a little up front on the flavor, not quite in your face, but getting there. If I didn’t see the % on this site, I would think it to be about 7%. The carbonation is sparse but present, could use a bit more. Upon finishing this brew I get a back of your throat medium bitterness that hangs for a few moments. This brew could take some lessons in etiquette from Yuengling’s black & tan or East End Pink Cloud. On par with Weyerbacher Black Hole Ale and JW Dundees Porter.

This deep dark color has the coffee and malt aromas that turn into a deep roasted coffee flavor on the mouthfeel. Notes of dark chocolate are more pronoumnced in the finish. This porter almost drinks like a stout!

Sample at Firewaters in Atlantic City. Dark brown color with a medium light tan head and streaks of lacing. Coffee, hops and a touch of chocolate in the nose. Rich body with a well-balanced array of flavors from bitter coffee and hops to roasted malt and chocolate. The finish is dry with a roasted coffee flavor and lingering hops. Pretty good all around.

yum. pours black, nice consistency, with a dark tan head. Lots of chocalate, coffee, blakc patent malt going on in the flavor with some pnw hops in the background. Liked this one very much.