Three Floyds Alpha Klaus Christmas Porter

Bottle shared by sweetgoodness, thanks honey! Black our with a foamy tan head. Aroma of earthy hops, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, some roasted malt. Flavor of roasted malt, a bit of smoke, some chcolate and a bit of earthy hops. Medium body, roasty...a bit smokey with a clean finish.

Bottle. Pours a dark, cloudy brown, with very little brown head, with a decent amount of lacing. Aroma is floral, coffee, malt. Flavor is chocolate, floral, coffee, caramel. Palate is more to the medium side, some stickiness, low carbonation. Good porter.

Wow! This nose was immediate, Hops MAN! I cannot nail down the hops here, there is coffee and chocolate. nose is hoppy like an IIPA. Brown head with exquisite lacing. Brown body. Mouth feel is surprisingly light, again, more like an IPA. There is some chocolate in here, but the hops are all over it. The after taste has the coffee and bitter chocolate, but again, sweet sticky pine hops. For the life of me I have NO IDEA who got this for me???? But I liked it more as it warmed and I drank more of it.

22 oz bottle: This beer has a deep dark color and a very rich texture. The head is creamy but dissipates soon. Although I enjoyed the beer I felt that some of the ingredients were contrasting, apparent both in the aroma and flavor. The citrusy cascade hops and English chocolate malts seem a strange combination so it takes awhile for my taste buds to adapt. However, once your senses catch up with the complexity of this beer it ends up being quite enjoyable.

Nice porter for the Christmas Season. Aroma of citrus hops, spices, chocolate, vanilla, coffee. Nice big flavor with bitter hoppy finish.

22 OZ bottle from shigadeyo (Thanks!). This one is a dark brown/almost black with a massive tan foamy/sparkly/spidery head. Took a full 5 minutes for the head to recede to an ’almost’ drinkable level in my pilsner glass!Nose is mostly roasty malts, some chocolate and vanilla and some citrus hops. Flavor is pretty much the same, with lots of hops coming through in the end. Overcarbonated.... Thin/Medium body. This is a hoppy, flavorful easy to drink porter. Unfortunately, i do not care for so much hoppiness in my porters....

Bottle. A dark brown color with hint of ruby light through the edges and a light foamy brown head. Creamy and smooth on the palate with loads of chocolate malts and a long lingering coffee aftertaste. Rating from notes.

Bottle from trade with kmweaver. Thanks Ken! Pours a dark amber color with an aroma of fruit, toffee and malt. Taste was little disappointing in the fact that it was sort of thin, without much character and overly carbonated. Not a bad porter just not on the same level as Bells or Duck-Rabbit.