Three Heads Java Sutra Coffee Porter

Three Heads Brewing
Brewed at Custom Brewcrafters
Style: Porter
Rochester, New York USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Smells just like fresh espresso coffee beans. Can clearly taste the chocolate and coffee and hazlenut in the malt. The hops come through brilliantly in the end. Fantastic beer!!!! 3HB comes through again!

Bomber. Very dark with red highlights and a nice creamy beige layer. The nose is espresso and is pleadant. Coffee and chocolate are tasted and both are a bit muted. Some nice roastiness and later that becomes more dry. Also, some lactic. Very late some he are noted. They are not big and add mild bitterness. This is pretty solid and it is what it says it is.

Bomber->stem. Black with 1/2 inch tan head. Aroma: coffee, chocolate malt, nuts. Taste: chocolate and coffee, sweet caramel malt. Decent.

In short: A an over-carbonated sweet nutty ale with a cup of black coffee. Meh.
How: Bottle 22oz, consumed a few months after purchase,
The look: Clear dark mahogany-ruby body topped by a large beige head quickly diminishing to a thin layer of foam and leaving lots of lacings on the glass.
In long: Nose is an old cup of black coffee with notes of milk chocolate bar. Body feels a bit airy because of an excessive carbonation, not a fun beer to keep in mouth. Taste is barley candy, black coffee, surprisingly nutty, ashy burnt cereals, light notes of milk chocolate, toasted brown sugar, awkward acidity coming mostly from the excessive carbonation. A few things didn’t work for me in this beer, the nutty milk chocolate clashed with the boring coffee flavor, and the carbonation really didn’t help. This Java Sutra is to beer what the missionary position is to the Karma Sutra.

Bottles from Wegman’s Collegeville and Capone’s. Pours thick and jet black, with very little light getting through, and a 1-finger tan head that laces well. Nose is roasty choc and black patent malt, cacao, coffee, big hops. Tastes roasty dark malty, dry, hoppy, with some peaty and even scotch whisky notes, along with finishing coffee. Not sure where the scotch comes from, but I taste it, and I am a certified super taster and smeller, so it is there, punks.

Bitter aroma that is trying to put off some roasted notes but they’re almost burnt instead. Good appearance with dark brown almost blocking out light. Almost glows when held to light. Lacing is light average for porters. Taste goes with aroma. A good porter with roast flavors but the coffee comes through too burnt and bitter but still very drinkable. The palate is what keeps this beer on the upper half of the porter style. The carbonation is perfect and the beer just barely sticks to the palate. Any longer and the burnt coffee flavor would be unbearable. Overall this is a solid porter that needs work with the coffee addition. Maybe cold brew coffee instead of espresso?

Overly coffee brown ale / porter. Opaque brown pour with white head. Aroma is coffee and grassy piney hops. Taste is coffee chocolate and more coffee.

great label, subpar to par beer. Big coffee flavors, kinda like a southern tier type beer, over done flavors, ok. Base beer very plain

Smells like a butt hole factory, but tastes pretty smooth. Dark pour. Dry stout flavor. Get passed the smell and you're good.

Aroma like wine...kinda gross aroma..pours black and super thin brownish head...taste is coffee raisens ...good stuffs