Rich ink black ruddish-hazed London-styled mocha porter maintains brisk dry-hopped char and dusky cola-macadamia sear to black cherry-pureed raisin-fig conflux corrupting soy-sauced chocolate-roasted finish.
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SPRECHER GENERATION PORTER
Confusingly indistinct ink black porter closer to banal Schwarzbier. At opening, Russell Stovers chocolate-covered raspberry cream candy essence loses footing to chalky powdered cocoa bittering and musty grape-dried oaken cherry souring. Protruding raspberry puree tartness pervades coarse dry-hopped finish, but funky mildewed vegetal waft and vinous acidity ruin confounding digestif.
BRECKENRIDGE VANILLA PORTER
Remarkable lactic porter makes excellent dessert fodder. Vanilla bean bittering absorbs sweet brown chocolate, cappuccino, coconut, creme de cocoa and molasses-toffee scintillation. Peat-smoked roasted hop char stabilizes anise, hazelnut, cookie dough and cherry puree illusions. At maple malt finish, casual bourbon-sherry whim detected. On tap, initial vanilla-mocha intensity receives whimsical dried fruiting, watering down burnt caramel malting a tad.
BOULDER PLANET PORTER
GREAT DIVIDE ST. BRIGID’S PORTER
MC NEILL’S PULLMAN’S PORTER
ROGUE MOCHA PORTER
Sweet candy aroma and prevalent black chocolate thicket court sappy maple malts, earthy mineral grains, and raisin-y nuttiness up-front. Rich mocha creaminess surrounds bitter coffee bean residue at moderate hop-roasted finish. Mellow, water sodden, and extremely casual despite dark as night inky hue.
STONEY CREEK VANILLA PORTER
Now brewed by Atwater Block, superior full-bodied milkshake-like treat perfect for creamy dessert snack. Aromatic chocolate nut cake greeting saturates Starbuck’s vanilla latte illusion as crisp charred hop assertion intensifies lovely vanilla bean surge, ice coffee undertones, and long lasting fudge finish. Sweet!
BREWERY HILL CARAMEL PORTER
GREAT LAKES EDMUND FITZGERALD PORTER
Named after the doomed ship, well-carbonated jet-black Midwest porter pours thick and creamy (with cascading sienna bubbles rushing to fluffy-headed surface). Milky espresso salience and dark-roasted hop charred nuttiness counter syrupy sweet cocoa-chocolate frontal assault. Ashen peanut-shelled walnut and Brazil nut conflux deepens latent coffee grain bittering to tar-like molasses finish.
MEANTIME LONDON PORTER
ST. PETER’S OLD-STYLE PORTER
Superior full-bodied off-dry ruby-garnet porter allows cascading tan bubbles to build dense upper layer as mildly embittered hop char permeates creamy maple-mocha malt richness, ashy tobacco resin, and fluctuant dried cherry-plum souring. Lingering hazelnut-pecan whir given sour coffee bean propulsion at chalky chocolate finish.