Stone Smoked Porter

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

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Dark brown in color with ruby highlights and a small off-white head.Sweet roasty and smokey.Good balance and great use of malt.

[Tap] Pours a very dark brown color with a small tan head. Sweet and roasty aroma with some light smoke. Heavily roasted and burnt tasting caramel and molasses. Some smoke, but more of a burnt character. Slight astringency and below average mouthfeel. This is a pretty good beer, but it didn’t seem to hold up to some of the better smoked beers.

Dark Chocolate and Coffee are present throughout the beer. Very nice, very smooth. I didn't really catch the smokiness, My first porter and very good one at that.

Dark and slightly translucent with a large root-beer type head. Aroma is of malt and earthy/woody undertones. Flavor is remarkably complex and interesting, but doesn’t put too many eggs in any one basket. At the starting gun, it is earth/peaty/malty which give way to just a touch of chocolate and then to a woody flavor. All of this is very mild, but not underwhelming.

Appearance: pitch black. Small White head. Aroma: malt, chocolate, sour, oak. Flavour: lots of smoke, peat, chocolate, dark, like licking a brick of coal. Incredible.

pours a very dark amber, almost black with a medium tan head. Aroma is of coffee and roasty. Taste is coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt up front with a slightly smokey and bittersweet finish. nice.

Bottle kindly sent by Durhambeer. Pours a deep reddish black with a great head and good lace. The aroma is smoky coffee dark chocolate and some nice roastiness all complimented by a some dark berry flavors. The flavor is deep roasty coffee and a nice bitterness, the beer is just lightly smoky but very well balanced.

22oz bottle. Pours a very dark brown, almost black body with some red tints around the edges. Thick and foamy, two-finger width, light brown colored head that dissipates slowly and leaves a lot of nice layered lacing. Solid aroma with lots of sweet brown malts and a nice fruity, soft roasty smell. Smokey, but more like a honey ham smoke than straight up smoked ham. It definitely accompanies the rest of the beer. Some sweet chocolates and licorice with just a splash of coffee. Flavor is very similar. Sweet malts and dry backing of roast and smoke. Initially a lot of sweet caramels and fruity malts with a slow developing hop bitterness. Some chocolates come in as well as more dark fruits before the smoke and roast come in to completely dry this sucka out. Not a big aftertaste, but a solid echo of chocolate, caramel, and smoke. Palate is soft, very balanced, and medium bodied. Overall, a damn good beer. Solid all around. Not a very intense hoppy/roasty porter, but I love when smoked beers have balance like this and the smoke accompanies the flavors rather than dominating them. Excellent.