On tap at Jealous Monk, dry specialty malts enjoin light hop-charred nuttiness and dark cocoa bittering as ricey emmer flouring and rye-like triticale graining provide brown breaded base.
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ANGRY ERIK 3-BALL PORTER
On tap at Beef Trust, sweet orange-zested cardamom spicing adds piquant Christmastime dimension to treacly black chocolate and roasted coffee overtones. Caramelized cola nuttiness counters minor phenolic astringency deep below creamy cardamom-seasoned mocha fudging.
MUSKOKA PORTLY GENTLEMAN FLAVORED ALE
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Haledon, holiday-seasoned porter allows cinnamon-spiced vanilla sweetness to inundate Hershey’s chocolate-like syruping and subtle coffee-cocoa tones. Dry mocha finish gains chewy bourbon vanilla loveliness while cinnamon spicing fades.
HILL FARMSTEAD TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS PORTER
On tap at Ambulance, marvelously unique vanilla bean-aged holiday porter spiked with roasted coffee and cinnamon truly warms the soul with its smoky chocolate malting and wintry nutmeg-ginger seasoning. Richly creamed mocha syruping increases decadence alongside muscavado-sugared cinnamon coffee caking for affluent dessert treat.
FLYING DOG CINNAMON PORTER
Chewy chocolate cinnamon caking abruptly enjoined by black-peppered ginger spicing above sharp hop char. Evenly spread black chocolate, black coffee and espresso illusions enrich the raw molasses-sapped backend.
CLOWN SHOES GENGHIS PECAN PIE PORTER
Updated “Genghis” version scoffs at former malt extracting for more organic brown-sugared pecan roast, but nutty mocha richness suffers a tad. Bittersweet black chocolate, vanilla and molasses overtones nearly overwhelm pecan pie crusting. Tertiary peanut butter, rum cake, gingerbread, praline and molasses undertones receive watery soap-stoned bleaching.
CLOWN SHOES PECAN PIE PORTER
Superb stylistic hybrid with opulent pecan pie entry and chewy cookie dough richness truly rules the roost. Brown-sugared caramel malting saturates oats-toasted hop char, ashen walnut bittering and dried-fruited raisin-plum-cherry conflux. Praline, hazelnut and almond reinforce peanut-buttered brown chocolate finish. A sensational dessert treat.
THREE FLOYDS ALPHA KLAUS CHRISTMAS PORTER
Delectable brownish ruby-highlighted winter warmer denied customary seasonal spicing for smoked mocha malt jut, honey roast, piney resin, plus chewing tobacco and cigar ash illusions. Beneath lies powdered cocoa, brown chocolate, and toffee sedation.
TOMMYKNOCKER COCOA PORTER WINTER WARMER
Don’t expect noticeable wintry spicing or traditional porter traits from sullied flesh-headed brown-bodied deviant. Stilted sour prune waft burrows through acrid oaken grape astringency and styptic cocoa powder constriction. Charcoal-stained tobacco leaf, black tea, fig, and compost illusions spell dungy earthen bog.
BISON ORGANIC GINGERBREAD ALE
Uniquely impressive medium-bodied winter porter places cinnamon-spiced gingerbread theme above hop-roasted maple-sapped molasses malts. Oncoming brown chocolate sweetness deepens black cherry, almond, and pecan illusions seeping into burgundy-soaked cookie dough finish.
ANDREW’S ST. NICK’S PORTER
Dry Scotch malts play off powdery chocolate, mocha latte, and burnt caramel illusions as peat-smoked earthiness soaks impending black cherry skin acridity ’til roasted coffee finish haunts old St. Nick’s.
BOOM CZECH PORTER
Sweet sticky Baltic porter may be better defined as a pruned barleywine. Its cognac nose affects exhaustive Kahlua, malt liqueur, and chocolate éclair peculiarities, but loses full-bodied luster by the less-than-creamy lactose finish. Fine as dessert, though too busy and overbearing with food. Also known as Pardubice Porter.