Vierling Coffee Porter

On-tap at the brewpub: Aroma of light milk chocolate and a very small hint of cappuchinno. Not much of a nose, but respectfully clean and fresh. Dark sludgy brown nearly black color, thin creamy tannish head, keeps a thin collar, lacing in spots and ink blobs. Taste is light in flavors with milk chocolate, sweetish barley, and a very light smudge of what could be coffee. The chocolate tones are nice but for a coffee porter it lacks bigtime so I’ll throw aside the coffee label for this review. Only a small dry finishing quality brings out a recognizable coffee roast, but its quite subtle and short in stature. Clean and mild feel thats just shy of a medium body and drys out with subtle drying chocolate and very light microscopic coffee roast. Not a bad porter really, its actually quite good and very drinkable with an easy mild chocolate tone. But as a coffee porter, as the name on all the boards an menus state, it comes up pretty short. If you call it coffee, it better taste at least a little bit like coffee not just look like it.