Southern Tier Porter

(a second tasting) Southern Tier Porter is a nearly black, dark reddish brown ale with a thick, fluffy beige head that has excellent retention and leaves excellent lacing on the glass. The aroma is fresh and roasty like coffee and chocolate. Smells great! It is medium bodied, very smooth, and the finish is dry. It tastes great! It has an excellent roasty flavor that exhibits great balance. That’s what a porter is supposed to taste like! (first tasting) Southern Tier Porter is a dim, dark red ale adorned with an eggy beige head with oily bubbles that stays put and crusts up on the glass. Very handsome. The aroma is muted, grainy, roasty, fresh and dry. It if full bodied and fluffy in the mouth. The finish starts with a sharp bitter snap and then turns silty and dry. The flavor is quite well balanced. It doesn’t lean toward coffee or chocolate; it’s just dark roasted malt here. The end of the taste gets alkaline. The hops kick in to bring me grassiness and set the malt on a spin toward salmiakki. This is an ideal porter.

12oz, bottle, smells like a porter, tastes like a porter, looks like a porter, and guess what it is a porter, no surprises with this one, something i might consider a benchmark porter, middle of the road with other things to be judged against it.

12 oz. bottle via trade with Linus Stick - Pours a clear brown color with a one and a half finger thick light tan head. Nice lacing. Aroma is faint coffee and roasted malt. Flavor is light coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt. Has a slight bitter aftertaste. Medium body. A good porter. Thanks Alan.

Thanks to hoplover406 for this. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma is coffee and chocolate malt. Very nice porter taste, not too heavy, chocolate malt and coffee are the predominate tastes. Lots of coffee in the aftertaste. Not overbearing and very tasty.

12-oz bottle received via trade with swoopjones. Pours opaque with a small, fizzy, brown head, somewhat lasting with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (chocolate, bread, coffee), average hops (perfume, citrus), average yeast (leather) with notes of smoke and wood. Medium bodied, sticky texture, lively carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

Very smooth and good standard porter. This one has a hint of hops in the aroma and the taste is a lot more roasty finish than other porters I have had. It is well balanced and therefore doesn’t have an overwhelming flavor. This is a quality porter, a bit to thin, but it went down quick!

A decent and drinkable porter, though a bit thin in the flavor. Aroma was decent. Roasted malt mixed with coffee. Pour was a deep dark brown with a thin off white ring for a head. Taste was mostly coffee with just a hint of chocolate in and out. Very heavy carbonation which is usually good, but the taste can’t break through it. Not bad not great.

Sept. 2007 - Beer poured dark with decent head and lacing. Milky lactic aroma with burned notes. This is a porter as it should be. Dark roasty notes with a lot of bitter milk chocolate. Smooth mouthfeel. The only negative was the large amount of lacticity (is that a word?) just doesn’t appeal to me greatly.