Swell (formerly) limited edition porter places ‘100% Hawaiian kona coffee’ and maple-sapped molasses sweetness atop dark roasted barley-hops. Creamy cappuccino surge soothes chewy vanilla-chocolate-coconut confluence and teensy cocoa dusting to mildly dry coffee bean-embittered finish (with wavered black peppering). Fluffy carbolic fizz nearly overwhelms milky texture.
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(ATLANTIC) COAL PORTER
Spectacularly robust charcoal-stained full body pours ebony with ruby-maroon highlights. Dry coffee bean frontage yields to boisterous dark chocolate bitterness thickening hop-roasted toasted oats spine. Glancing walnut coarseness sways black tar finish, yet despite rigid frothy density, clean-watered flow thaws dusky adjuncts.
LEGEND PORTER
AVERY NEW WORLD PORTER
MEANTIME COFFEE PORTER
Marvelous full-bodied ruby brown dessert beer comes in squat 12-ounce teardrop-shaped bottle and retains delicious Hershey’s chocolate sweetness. Beautiful lactic porter gains complexity as creamy vanilla, burnt caramel, and roasted mocha nicely recede, allowing dry coffee bean roast to become prominent. After initial brown chocolate luster levels off, milky cappuccino bittering strengthens.
BALLAST POINT BLACK MARLIN PORTER
Creamy crimsoned mahogany lactose porter guides honeyed oats waft towards creamy black chocolate frontage and buttery vanilla backdrop. Oily hops embitter roasted barleymalts, securing receded blackstrap molasses, burnt toast, charred wood, and earthen peat illusions. Sweet milky lactose texture, chewy chocolate liqueuer spell, and sinister cappuccino finish are saving grace.
OTTER CREEK STOVEPIPE PORTER
Rich chocolate nougat creaminess and caramel-roasted malting complement coffee grain bitterness. Yet unlike heavier porters, delicate maple-sapped nuttiness provides softer texture so it goes down easier. Upgraded, updated 2010 version plied burnt caramel, brown chocolate and vanilla sweetness to mild pine-smoked nuttiness, picking up desolate espresso wisps with excellent results.
BELL’S PORTER
PORTLAND HAYSTACK BLACK PORTER
BERKSHIRE COFFEEHOUSE PORTER
Intriguingly robust mahogany-hued tan-headed porter preserves deeply embittered single-minded coffee bean roast from tongue-tip to bottom-throat. Chocolate latte creaming proffers burnt caramel, maple, hazelnut, cola and espresso supplement, sheltering heavy java influence, off-dry toasted hop subtlety, and creamy vanilla retreat for impeccable black coffee alternative.