Redolent of nearby Colorado brewer Great Divide’s St. Brigid Stout due to soured coffee grain theme and nutty chocolate variance. But unwanted medicinal astringency, phenol citric-peeled lament, and trashy lactose finish decrease depth substantially.
Tag Archives: mocha porter
SEA DOG RIVERDRIVER PORTER
Withered hazelnut acridity becomes too one dimensional and overbearing for dry coffee and sweet chocolate to penetrate indifferent porter. Questionable dried fruit souring and tannic grape parch leave tart mouth pucker as disturbingly ashen coal-like hop char moderates compromised espresso bittering.
USHERS DARK HORSE PORTER
ANCHOR PORTER
Magnificent black-hued, thick tan-headed, chocolate-scented porter enriches creamy coffee frontage with burnt maple caress. Syrupy yeast linger usurps sugary mocha sweetness adjoining toasted hop bitterness, creating full-bodied chocolate liqueur-styled malt brew. Everything you’d hope for. As label indicates, “aesthetically pleasing and wholly superior.”"
COOPERSTOWN BENCHWARMER PORTER
LEFT HAND BLACK JACK PORTER
Bold, creamy, frothy, ruby-hued London-style porter pours like molasses with cascading bubbles forming eggshell head. Compares favorably to thick chocolate milkshake, as splendid sweet-sour chocolate-vanilla fluctuation succinctly enhances chewy raisin-date overtones. Dry malts, smoked barley, and flowery spiced hops caress chalky mocha undercurrent. As if that’s not great enough, its rich finish recalls marvelous full-bodied milk stouts.
ORCHARD STREET PORTER
SHEPHERD NEAME ORIGINAL PORTER
WACHUSETT BLACK SHACK PORTER
APPALACHIAN PENNYPACKER PORTER
J.W. DUNDEE’S PORTER
LEGEND KING JAMES ALE
Celebrating 400th anniversary of early American settlement, Jamestown, this maroon-bodied ruby-garnet-highlighted porter boasts strong coffee bean aroma and brown chocolate sweetness. Toffee, licorice, dried fruit, and earthen nut illusions trapped by astringently ashy peppered hop char. Tertiary black cherry, fruitcake, and peppermint hints scarcely register.