Bottle courtesy of sloth. Pours brown with a light brown head. Smells of chocolate, roasted malt, soap, some molasses. Tastes of rich roasted malt and lightly tarte. Enjoyable.

Bottle from Vintage Cellar. Very dark brown color with a significant tan head. Interesting aromas of coffee, nuts, dark toasted malt and chocolate. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is a tad sour, with chocolate, coffee and dark malt. Finish is rather dry and has a very slight sour note. Rich and tasty porter.

Bottle. Black/brown body that hardly lets any light through. Almost no head, scant and tan. On the nose, molasses, roast, malty base and chocolate. Much the same in flavor with a licorice component and a nice slight bitterness to the end. On the low-end of carbonation, finishes a little long. A good porter. In flavor was like a mix between an Anchor Porter and Bell’s Kalamazoo.

Black with a good brown head. Good flavor. Flavor is there but the quality of the beer isn’t. Not clean.

Courtesy of dkachur. The aroma is very lightly smoky with a fairly large chocolate malt component, mild coffee and a hint of roasted malt. The body is a dark ruddy brown and it holds an initially large tan head which quickly compressed to pencil thickness. The first sip is coffee acidic and lightly tart/sour. There are some cold stale coffee flavors and a general roast/burnt bitterness. I think the tart notes were probably not intended, but if they were I am glad the porter today doesn’t taste like it allegedly did in the 1720’s.