Draft sample at the Vermont Brewers Festival 2018. Dark maroon brown color beige head with good retention. Chocolate coffee aroma. Taste starts with sweet milk chocolate then lightly bitter coffee

Tap. Press clear chestnut, small beige head, decent lacing. Roasty, cocoa, coffee, nutty, ashtray. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter. Well balanced. Medium body.

Last of today’s growler/growlette share.
I poured my portion into a mug.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a thin smooth quickly dissipating finger’s worth of white foamy head. No lacing.
The aroma starts smooth roasty to bitter coffee and then applies sweet caramel/slight nutty to toffee in to balance.
The flavor leads smooth and sweet rolling over the caramel and toffee portions. Nuttiness with some roast and then some bitter coffee all comes together.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionable smooth feel to it. Carbonation feels barely there. Damn smooth all around!
Overall, really nice porter leaning to the English tradition. I’d have this again.