Southern Tier Porter

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

Pours dark brown with nice ruby highlights and a tan head. Chocolate and coffee on the nose. Taste is similar to the aroma. Roasted coffee is deliciously pronounced with a nice dry and light hop on the finish.

Bottle, 12 fl. oz. Pours a darkbrown beer with a nice lightbrown head. The aroma is green apple with a little chocolate. The flavor is likewise green apple with additional tobacco and roasted malt. The green apple in the aroma and flavor is normally because there is a problem with the yeast. Will re-rate beer.

Bottle - 355ml. Black body with brownish glints, low carbonation and a thin beige creamy head. Nice malty/hoppy aroma with roasty, coffeeish, and chocolate hints. Sharp, robust malty/hoppy taste that carries roasted cereals, herbal, and oaky notes. Ends with a long bitter/roasty finish. Well done.

12 fl oz bottle from LCBO, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass.

App.: Deep brown, rim of tan-grey head. Aroma: Nice dark-roasted coffee, some dark chocolate, light wood, nuts and a little grapes and other fruit. Palate: Medium body and fairly sparse carbonation. Flav.: Similar to the nose with good black coffee, some dark chocolate, grapey fruitiness, very light wood, nuttiness and a touch a smoke.

Pretty nice.

Bottle.Pours black with a beige head.Mild aroma of roast and coffee.Flavor of roasted grains , coffee with some caramel.Rather dry and bitter finish.Ok beer.

Bottle: Part of a weekend session. Dark pour, clear, ruby highlights as a good porter should show. Smallish mocha cap reduces but laces OK. Aroma of roast coffee, floral herbs and burnt toffee. Dose of roasty husk tastes of patent malt and sweet crystal malts are balanced by resinous hopping, lightly sweet and caramel like in the body, goes to a clean drying finish where charred husk astringence and hops turn lightly bitter, nice twist on the style, London porter meets US Micro process and dry hopping....satisfying, drinkable not too filling.

pours black with minimal light beige head. The aroma is relatively mild colffee notes. This is reflected in the taste as well. It has a nice roastiness to it and a decent mouthfeel. Overall a decent brew, not one that I would seek out but not one I would hesitate to drink again. Note world class but solid brew nonetheless.

Well, this is a decent porter, not amazing, considering fullers london porter is an exceptional beer and a tall can of it is only 20 cents more then a bottle of this, I can’t really see why I would buy it again. The thing that really grinds me about the LCBO is that southern tier has some absolutely amazing brews and yet they are set on only providing us with there most mediocre ones. The beer pours a motor oil black with a thin quickly diminishing head. The aroma is good, chocolate, espresso, roastiness, more or less everything you would expect from a porter but nothing more then that. The flavour is nice, espresso, chocolate covered coffee bean sort of deal, like most people noted, it’s very chocolate forward, some hoppy herbal dryness in the middle, ends on a slightly bitter note. Perhaps a finer carbonation might have helped this beer? A pretty solid porter, just nothing to wow about. Very sessionable though.