Stone Smoked Porter with Chipotle Peppers

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Porter
Escondido, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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On cask at the ceremonial tapping at the St. Paul Beer Dabbler. Don’t want too much of this, but it’s good to feel the throat burn a bit.

From a bottle. Smells peppery and musky. Tasted like chili peppers and cocoa, but is not spicy. Light foamy head.

Tap. Pours deep, dark brown with thin, creamy beige head; short retention and spare lacing. Aroma is chipotle peppers, roasted and caramel malts, vanilla, plums, figs, earthy and floral hops, and smoke. Flavor is roast malts forward with supporting smoke, dark fruit esters, earthy hops, and light oak; chipotle undertones throughout with a dry, ashy finish. Medium body and low carbonation.

On tap pours an dark brown with a thick tan head. Aroma is smoky malty with a little bit of chipotle and chocolate. Flavor is rich malt very well rounded porter with good smoke and nice pepper on the back end. Overall it was a nice porter with solid elements and a nice pepper character that got better as you drank.

The chipotle pepper flavor didn’t really shine, although I’ve always liked the stone smoked porter, so not a loss.

Bottle. Pour is a deep leathery brown with a medium to large head and aromas of leather, chocolate and just a hint of peppers. Flavor is very nice... Maybe a little thinner than I would like, but the peppers are just enough to give it a little bite against the chocolate and leather of the dark porter. Smoke is pretty balanced but noticeable, especially early and late across the palate. Very nice.

roasty, toast, earthy, raisin, brown, hazy, minimal head, medium bitternessfull body, bitter, long finish,

From a 12 oz bottle shared at home. Pours a dark cola brown with a thin off white head. Enticing aroma of roasted chipotle peppers. Chipotle flavor not so strong as in the nose -- smokey notes more forward. A bit of chili kick in the finish.

Bottle. Moderate malt notes of toasted cereal and dark chococlate, light herbs and dough for the hops and yeast, with background notes of smoke and wood. head is small, frothy light tan with a few spots of slippery lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is very dark brown yet clear. Flavor starts faintly sweet and lightly to moderately bitter, then finishes lightly acidic and lightly to moderately bitter. Palate is medium, a little slick with a lively carbonation and finishes with a little chili pepper heat. Nice twist with the peppery heat, though I didn’t notice any pepper in the aroma.

Drank in Oct ’12. Tasted side by side with a vanilla smoked porter. Pours mirror black with thin beige head. Not enough lacing to note. Aromas and flavors of chipotle pepper, roasted nuts, malt, chocolate powder, and some more pepper. As it warmed it smoothed out a bit but still too spicy to drink in quantity. Light to medium body. Ok but I prefer the vanilla bean.