Stone Smoked Porter

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

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Pitch black with a tan head. Excellent retention and lacing in the glass. Tons of oaky notes on the nose with spicy undertones. The smoke is present, but some coffee and caramel persist as well. Mouth coating and one that I couldn’t put down.

Pours rich, unctuous black, with thick, fluffy mocha head. Aroma is smoke, sour wood, toffee. Taste is sweet, malty, yet somewhat savoury with hints of treacle. Some is subtle and restrained, mostly evident in the finish. Body is thick and oozing, a real treat.

Pours a rich dark brown, with a medium beige head. Aroma of chocolate, dark malts, and a minimal amount of smoke. Nice malt flavor up front, with a dry chocolate settling in the background. Finishes dry with the smoke finally arriving. Very nice, and very well done.

At the Stout & Porter Blind Tasting Part A, pours black with a medium head, aroma of roasted malt, some coffee and lightr smoked notes, flavor is quite hoppy and bitter with some grapefruit, roasted malt, more of a BIPA, medium bodied

Spectaculer coffee aroma accompanied by a nutty, bready presence. Very dark shade of red and brown with a thin foam top. Taste is bitter hop and coffee upfront with a pleasant bready/doughy taste on the finish. Other subtle flavors of chocolate, caramel, spices and an earthy/leafy taste. Overall, a fantastically brewed porter with lots of smooth coffee flavor but still giving off that signature hoppy bite that Stone Brewing is known for. I’d give this an A rating.

650ml bottle. Deep dark clear brown with medium to small off-white fading but lacing head. Smokey, roasty, dark malt not towering aroma with a beacon note. Suprisingly "cold" and watery beginning, immediately displaced by a rather grainy, bread-like, sweet prosecution, a somewhat sweet Zwickel-Keller-like middle part, not as dark in taste as the colour suggests. Touches coffee at 3/4, leading to a grainy, sweet, only rudimentary dry finish. Well-understood, really not bad, but not a typical Porter: Somewhere between a pushed to the limits Franconain Zwickel, a Rauchbier like Aecht Schlenkerla Märzen combined with the sweet and earthy carrot-like remnant of an Black IPA. -------- may be another example of "changing/developing character" via "increasing temperature". I can smell coffee now not detected before. Somewhat complex without being complicated. An indecisive brew.

Pours deep rich brown, slight ruby, with a tan head. The aroma is tons of roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee, a little char, the smoke reminds me of smoked meat. The taste is richer in the choclate and dark flavours of the malt than the smoked falvour from the malt, which for me is a plus. Little bit sweet, quite a bit of roasty bitterness, slight ham like quality. Mouthfeel is more robust than a normal porter, not quite as thin, with a very suiting carbonation that contributes to a velvety mouthfeel. No alcohol at all in the taste. Very nice use of smoked flavour.

pours dark brown with a tan head. Flavor is smoky and taosted chocolate. has a touch of malt and finishes cery smokey.