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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.

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.