Stone Smoked Porter

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

22oz bottle. Had this a while ago. Rich dark color, with a tan head. Coffee, chocolate, and malt. Slightly bitter finish.

It is a good, robust porter...I'm just taken aback by the strength of the smokiness, and it reminds me a little too much of a BBQ or bacon. Dark reddish brown body, small lacing of the head around the sides of the glass. This beer has an awful lot of hops for a porter, which results in an unusually bitter finish. I will probably not buy this again soon.

Pours very dark brown/almost black. Aroma of chocolate and smoke. Flavor upfront of smoke, with a chocolate and hop background. Pretty good, but not up to par with east end smoke porter which i compare them all to.

Black body, small light brown head, no laces; quite small nose, it has great depth and and complexity, but it is well hidden behind nothing: very fresh with very little smokiness to it, spicy honey (only the spicy part of honey, not the sweet), little bitter chocolate, milk chocolate, some cinnamon. it is fantastic, but could be a little more powerful; balanced, creamy body to bitter side with the perfect amount of great and full carbonation; it finishes of very, very long (actually well into the next beer I drank). first very flowery, turning into a long bitterness: first the very sweet smell of the inside of a Danish garden flower, that I don’t know the name of, this sweetness disappears slowly turning into a long complex, constantly changing never ending finish. Super, super beer only loosing a bit on its nose. Thanks a lot to Numenor for sending this one!

Bottle from Siciliano’s in Grand Rapids, MI. Dark brown almost black color with small tan head. Aroma is some aged cherry, roasted malt, only slight coffee, medium hops, and smoke as it warms. Flavor is smoke, chocolate, very nutty, pine bitter, very nice. Hotly carbonated with medium body. Very nice flavor and aroma, I love how solid stone is yet being so inexpensive and accesible.

Nice multi-layered mostly malty aroma. The porter is subltley smoky as advertised. This is a nice porter, however I don’t believe it is as complex as say Fuller’s. Nice effort from Stone, however. Although that is kinda redundant, as all of Stone’s products are very good.

Draft at Stone. A lot of smoked and roasted malt in the aroma. Decent mouthfeel. Good flavor but actually not as good as I remember it being a couple years ago.

On tap at the porter tasting at Blacklick Wine & Spirits on 10/22/09. Dark brown pour with a medium tan head. Malty aroma with some bread, smoke and hops. Flavor is chocolate malt with a bit of apple and a smoky finish. Not overdone on the smoke, which is nice.