Robust English-styled ruby red port gluts dry coffee prominence with charred hop bitterness, powdered chocolate souring, unrefined maple sapping and chalky cocoa snip for creamy chocolate milkshake thickness. Hickory-seared charcoal, pine tar, cigar ash and tobacco chew undertones deepen black cherry conviction and soured raisin stipend to vegetative bottom.
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FULLERS LONDON PORTER
(MAD RIVER) STEELHEAD SCOTCH PORTER
Truly complex tawny-hued maroon-highlighted lactic porter (with lovely cascading tan bubbles surfacing on initial pour) plies luxuriant whiskey nose to sweet maple-powdered cocoa linger. Responsive chocolate-hazelnut affluence stormed by peat moss, tobacco leaf, fig, and date as adjacent cherry-raisin illusion builds. Then, charred pine, black tar, and charcoal bluntness thickens bitterly off dry finish.
RED HOOK BLACK HOOK PORTER
SMOKY MOUNTAIN TUCKALEECHEE PORTER
BLUE HEN CHOCOLATE PORTER
FULL SAIL HALF PIPE PORTER
MAGIC HAT RAVELL
Resilient sienna maroon-hued ruby-highlighted vanilla porter brings Tootsie Roll-like milk chocolate sweetness to sour burnt coffee froth. Bourbon and port notes surface, complementing tart red grape, black cherry, fig, and hazelnut undertones. Espresso finish deepens inspiring vanilla latte resolve, creamy lactose urging, and teensy cinnamon swirl. A sheer joy.
(RICH) OLD SLUG PORTER
Ripe citrus aroma uncanny for robust creamy-headed mahogany porter (poured slowly due to explosive yeast-saturated concentration). Wood-burnt nut-roasted black coffee bitterness, recessive lemon-bruised snip, and leafy tobacco remnant lead to brooding raisin sourness before foam-cushioned stone-dry mocha finish retains crackled charred hop fizz.
SOUTHERN TIER RASPBERRY PORTER
BLUE RIDGE PORTER
GEARY’S LONDON STYLE PORTER
Musty earthen mossing of frothily cascading English porter secures dry coffee roast, black chocolate bittering and sharp hop-charred nutty residue. Yet watery texture provides silken crisping against moderated tar-like molasses bittering. Sticky, strong, but not distinct… and hardly London style (unless they mean London, Ontario).