S'More Porter
F.X. Matt Brewing Company (Saranac) in Utica, New York, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.38
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This porter tastes like chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker. It’s brewed with a blend of Caramel, Biscuit, Brown, and roasted malts and aged with chocolate and vanilla.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a very dark brown color - almost black - with a medium sized foamy brown head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was roasty and toasty with strong notes of cocoa powder, graham cracker, marshmallow, vanilla and malted milk. The flavor was bitter, roasty and dry with notes of wood, cocoa powder, vanilla and graham cracker. Long finish. Medium body. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2016
at 08:52
8/10
Tried
on 23 Sep 2016
at 23:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
quart bottle. Nose of graham crackers and chocolate. Dark brown, almost black. Medium head. Chocolate, graham cracker flavor, sweet but balanced. A bit weird as a beer, but pretty tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2016
at 22:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Chocolate, marshmallow, graham cracker, and straw aroma. Dark brown with small head. Moderately sweet graham cracker, marshmallow, chocolate malt and mildly bitter hay flavor. Nice body. They nailed the flavor - a very solid beer, one of the best Saranacs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2016
at 18:11
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle: Pours black with a small, creamy tan head. Aroma is HUGE....peanut butter, chocolate..... Taste is roasty peanut, chocolate malt.... You actually DO get a little marshmallow and graham cracker in it. Very rich.... An amazing re-creation of an actual S’more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2016
at 18:01
6/10
Sober
Tried
on 01 May 2016
at 22:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught @ Albion. Inky black with small foamy beige head, strong chocolate and Graham crackers aroma, medium carbonation, sweet mocha and biscuit taste, thin body, long mocha finish. Ridiculously authentic aroma.
Tried
on 05 Apr 2016
at 09:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Whoah, low expectations because of the company, but after tasting, smelling and feeling, well, I’ll be damned.
Here’s the rest.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a slim finger’s worth of light lacing after the head dissipated. Nice looking spider web.
The smell, well, it definitely smells like a \"smore.\" Graham cracker over the light marshmallow and chocolate. Smells authentic to me, nothing artificial.
The flavor even tasted like a smore, whoah, hmmm...how about that. Nice sweet graham cracker aftertaste. Marshmallow and chocolate seem a bit mellow, still there.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body like a porter. Carbonation seemed a bit higher than normal for the style, that rough feel is coming across.
Overall, glad to see Saranac not giving up the fight in the beer world just yet. To me, they did good with this one. I’d have again.
Here’s the rest.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a slim finger’s worth of light lacing after the head dissipated. Nice looking spider web.
The smell, well, it definitely smells like a \"smore.\" Graham cracker over the light marshmallow and chocolate. Smells authentic to me, nothing artificial.
The flavor even tasted like a smore, whoah, hmmm...how about that. Nice sweet graham cracker aftertaste. Marshmallow and chocolate seem a bit mellow, still there.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body like a porter. Carbonation seemed a bit higher than normal for the style, that rough feel is coming across.
Overall, glad to see Saranac not giving up the fight in the beer world just yet. To me, they did good with this one. I’d have again.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2016
at 01:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from that silly jug bottle that they use for the Mississipi Mud beer they also make. Poured a very dark brown color with a tan head. Aroma was light graham cracker, with some light marshmallow notes. Flavor was a touch of lacotose marshmallow, lots of honey graham cracker. Light chocolate notes. It’s no Biggie S’Mores, but it’s pretty good for this brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2016
at 16:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated glass jug. Translucent medium brown with small off-white head. Aroma is aroma is smore, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is chocolate and some marshmellow, hint of gram cracker.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2016
at 18:31