Southern Tier Porter

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Lakewood, New York USA

Poured dark brown with a fizzy head. Aroma of coffee and some chocolate. Fizzy carbonation kind of dulled the flavors. Mostly coffee. Ok.

Bottle. Pours opaque black with a modest tan head with some ruby and amber highlights. Aroma is caramel, woody, vanilla, grape, licorice, roast coffee, and subtle dark chocolate. Flavor is predominantly woody and roasty caramel, vanilla, dark chocolate, and coffee seem to swirl around the palate while a light fruity licorice note hits the top of your tongue, and further back some hops come in to round out the sweetness with some citrus and then reinforce the bitterness of the roast malt. Palate has some weight to it but isn’t heavy and is rather smooth but does have a sort of tannin feel to it while carbonation remains lightly peppery.

(Bottle at Hilpeä Hauki, Helsinki, on 2009-04-17) Very dark brown and clear. Small white head. Liquorice and coffee in aroma. Full bodied and dry palate with medium carbonation. Liquorice, burntness, ash, roastedness, light sweetness and bitterness in taste. Burnt and bitter aftertaste.

Nearly perfectly black cola like body with a little garnet at the edges when held to light. A decent, relatively thin khaki head. The aroma is nicely roasted coffee with some dark chocolate and raisins. The taste has some heavy plum and dark syrup notes. Then it finishes with sweetened coffee. While good, the roast is a little strange and I would like a little less sweetness. In appearance it is like a robust porter, while in taste, it is like a brown porter.

very thin black pour. pretty roasty aroma, a bit plasticy. flavor is somewhat chocolatey, definitely plasticy. guess roasty. really nothing special at all.

Bottle - Pours an opaque, very dark black/brown in color with almost no head and very little carbonation. Aroma is very strong of darkly roasted malts... almost what you would expect from a darker stout. Flavor is not what I would expect from a porter... bitter, very darkly roasted malts with some coffee. This definitely is more like a stout. Bitter almost astringent... unfortunately the flavor, although dark, is watery and thin. Disappointing...

Bottle. Creamy off-white fair mostly deminishing head. Black colour. Heavy malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Long nice moderate biotter finish. very roated. Oily palate. Nice porter.

Dark brown with a small tan head. Excellent roasted aroma with strong notes of dark dried fruits, chocolate and cappucino. The flavour is roasted and dry, with coffee and an odd, unpleasant note of raw malt and wort.