Coffee grain sourness inundates oily dry-bodied porter, fading to frugal hop-fizzed tedium lowering potential of indifferent roasted barley finish.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ROCKIES BREW. CO., BOULDER, CO.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BOULEVARD BREW. CO., KANSAS CITY, MO.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CATAMOUNT BREW. CO., WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CISCO BREWERIES, NANTUCKET, MA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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Pour slowly frothy New England islander or risk overt carbonation. Bitter coffee bean profile allows sour chocolate, tangy prune, and tannic grape illusions to offset lactic charge of blackened ruby, rocky beige-headed, bottle-conditioned port. Fuller body texture and richer barley roast would increase worth.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: WILMINGTON BREW. CO., WILMINGTON, N.C.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Heavy espresso frontage and sour coffee foundation provide moderate creaminess to full-bodied boldness. Loud black chocolate follow-through leans towards bitter side, staving off frugal mocha sweetness by simmering toffee finish. Brewery defunct: 2006.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: DESCHUTES BREWERY, BEND, OR.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ELYSIAN BREW. CO., SEATTLE, WA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: FLYING FISH BREW. CO., CHERRY HILL, N.J.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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Frothy bottle conditioned mocha-dried porter with pungent roasted coffee persistence and sour chocolate malt extract retains black molasses stickiness to bitter nut finish. Powdery cocoa sweetness and smoked barley conceal blunt fizz-hopped astringency and wavering ashy undertones, decreasing assertive creamy richness a notch.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: NORWICH INN, NORWICH, VT.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: KONA BREW. CO., KONA, HAWAII
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: LEGEND BREW. CO., RICHMOND, VA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: MEANTIME BREW. CO., LONDON, ENGLAND
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Marvelous full-bodied ruby brown dessert beer comes in squat 12-ounce teardrop-shaped bottle and retains delicious Hershey’s chocolate sweetness. Beautiful lactic porter gains complexity as creamy vanilla, burnt caramel, and roasted mocha nicely recede, allowing dry coffee bean roast to become prominent. After initial brown chocolate luster levels off, milky cappuccino bittering strengthens.






