Wolavers Alta Gracia Coffee Porter

Brewed by Otter Creek Brewing
Style: Porter
Middlebury, Vermont USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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soooooo smooth. They worked with the coffee owners on the taste to get it just right.....a little vanilla.

Great Beer, very drinkable, always refreshing. Can be drank by itself or with meals. Not an overpowering coffee taste, is rich and smokey with a thick porter flavor. Compare to other coffee porters is much more lively flavor with a kick. More natural flavor, color and aroma. Alcohol content is normal for coffee porter

Bottle. Pours a very dark brown color with relatively little head on it. Nose has some very strong coffee notes to it, as you would suggest. Feels and looks very thick and goes down smoothly. Great brew.

Wolaver’s Alta Gracia Coffee Porter is a brown-black ale with a coffee-colored head. It thins to an even foam and leaves thick sheets of lacing on the glass. It has a huge fresh ground coffee aroma with notes of chocolate and vanilla. The soft, chewy medium body leaves the mouth clean and dry. There’s lots of coffee in the taste. It’s lightly bittered. The hops are hiding beneath the coffee-- everything else is too, really. It’s well balanced and pretty mellow with lots of coffee coffee flavor. You want coffee? Here you go. This is quite sessionable.

Very tasty beer. Pours dark brown to black with a thin tan head. Easy to drink by itself. Rich roasted coffee flavor.

Coffee aroma forward, a bit watery but ok it's a porter. Good coffee beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

As a lover of coffee and a lover of beer, I usually avoid mixing the two. However, this is a great beer. A little sweet but a nice way to shake up a night of drinking IPAs.

Pours from bottle brownish red with a light brown head. Aroma is a blend of coffee and chocolate.Texture is smooth but not overly syrupy, especially for a porter. but Initial taste reinforces the aroma with a roasted coffee and chocolate blend. Finishes with a pleasant coffee aftertaste on the palate that lingers.

Pours deep brown and has a good deal of delicious vanilla aroma. Maybe some raisin and coffee as well, as is expected on a stout. Same on the mouth - mildly sweet and pleasingly bitter to finish. Fair amount of finesse for a Wolaver’s -- one of the best I’ve tried. Great fall/winter beer.

UPDATED: APR 4, 2013 Poring this the beer appears dark, but light does shine through the glass making the brews complexion dark ruby brown. It has a tall tan foamy head that soon dissipates. Beer smells strongly of coffee, a little vanilla, and some sweet hops. Taste like dark coffee, as opposed to other Coffee porters their is no milk or sugar added here. The vanilla is very slight and nice. Seems to have a decent hop presence that mixes in with the bitter coffee flavor. Pretty light in term’s of body, it is not a thick porter. Drinks well. -Fish!