(12oz bottle) Smallish beige head that leaves nice lacing, atop cola brown body. Aroma is medium sweet, roast/coffee, chocolate. Taste is medium sweet, chocolate, roast/coffee/burnt, some caramel, earthy/floral, grapefruit. Creamy medium body.

12oz bottle. Bottle stamped, bottled on 072607. Poured a dark and murky brown color with an averaged sized tan head. Aromas of hoppiness (piney), chocolate, roast, and nutty. Tastes of chocolate, roast, hoppiness, nutty, and coffee. Lacing left on the glass.

Cask... Very dark, clear, copper color with a small, creamy, off-white head. Good retention. Mild, dark roasted notes of chocolate and toffee. Perfectly balanced, but watery with very lively carbonation. Lengthy, crisp, dry finish.

Bottle sampled on 9/18/07: Pours a nearly opaque dark mahogany with a wispy-lacing froth of dark tan head. Aroma of sweet dark caramel and lightly roasted malts. Starts with a nice light sweetness and a touch of sticky caramel malt along with good roasty bittering notes and a hint of dark chocolate toward the bittersweet finish.

12oz bottle. Very hoppy porter, and usually I don’t like hoppy porters at all, but there’s actually a lot of like in this one. The nose is minty, with some juniper and peppermint hops, some heavy cream as well, very hoppy, very weird. Thin palate, I don’t like that at all. Sweet and starchy taste, with bitter but fresh pine and peppermint flavored hops, heavy ice-cream yeast flavors and grassy pine hops. Interesting, but could be thicker and more viscous if it’s going to be this hoppy, that’s what I’d prefer.