Southern Tier Porter

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.

Black of color with a beige head. An aroma of roasted malt, coffee and dark fruits. A flavor of chocolate, roasted malt, coffee and dark fruits.

Bottled sample via sammy. Ruby brown to black in colour with medium carbonation. Aromas of milk chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, caramel, and a touch of dark berry fruit. Quite chocolate forward in the mouth, with more berry fruit in the middle. Coffee and char dominate the finish, along with some earthy hops. Medium bodied with a slightly lingering sweetness on the finish. Fairly good overall.

Bottle. Brown body, with a huge light brown head. Aroma is liquorice and malt. Flavor is liqourice. Waterish body. I think it´s boring.

Bottle from Cracked Kettle. Dark black body with thick brown head. Texture is watery, oily and light bodied. Nose of malts, some chocolate and dark fruits. Taste is similar. Pretty mellow for a porter. Pretty dissapointing.

12oz bottle. Pours pure black, but light in body. Pretty bland flavour to be honest, but I am new to Porters and the Stouts. Definately easy to drink, but this isn’t anything special.