Pillbox Porter
Lanikai Brewing Company in Kailua, Hawaii, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
7.16
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Porter brewed with real vanilla beans. This robust brew features sweet malts and caramel notes balanced by a touch of hop bitterness and a spicy, herbal aroma.
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8/10
Tried
on 11 Apr 2026
at 02:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at hotel, black beer, small head. Aroma is roast, malt, coffee, liquorice. Taste is the same, roast, coffee, malt, liquorice, bitter. Nice
Tried
from Can
on 19 May 2025
at 19:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from the supermarket enjoyed at the airbnb on Waikiki.
Dark brown bordering on black with a decent sized frothy tan head. Earthy chocolate with hints of earth and vanilla. A bit hoppy for the style but pretty nice porter.
Dark brown bordering on black with a decent sized frothy tan head. Earthy chocolate with hints of earth and vanilla. A bit hoppy for the style but pretty nice porter.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2025
at 21:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at the Tropics Bar in the HHV on Waikiki. Pours dark brown black with a creamy tan head. Chocolate aroma. Medium plus body. Flavor is lots of chocolate and dark malt. Towards dry. Quite bitter. Very good porter.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Oct 2022
at 00:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
As Pillbox Porter (Hawaiian+Tahitian Vanilla) by Lanikai Brewing Company A proper porter, with roasted malts, coffee, vanilla, bit of dried fruits. Purchased at Tap & Barrel by Lanikai Brewing Company
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Oct 2020
at 13:17
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draught at the Tap & Barrel: pours near black with a beige head. Aroma is milk chocolate and caramel. Taste is sweet and roasty. Nice aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Sep 2019
at 01:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Tap. Pours hazy deep hickory, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is dry roast, vanilla, root beer, blackstrap molasses, earthy. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter, roasty and earthy with vanilla notes. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jun 2019
at 06:48
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
5-3-19 Princeville Foodland
Tried
on 04 May 2019
at 08:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice, three centimetre tall tan and light brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, earth, caramel and a bit of alcohol. Medium-bodied; Candy sweet chocolate and caramel hit first with a good deal of grain, roasted malt, oatmeal and vanilla right behind. Aftertaste shows a lot of roasted malt bitterness with some subdued grain and alcohol along with a bit of chocolate and coffee and a touch of alcohol as well. Overall, a nice porter with some rich flavours and a deep bitterness that you don’t find in most local beers. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from KTA Super Store in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Island, Hawaii on 09-August-2016 for US$7,99 sampled in my hotel/condo on 12-August-2016.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Aug 2016
at 19:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Black pour. Vanilla, roasted Malta, slight burnt coffee, some chocolate. The vanilla really comes on as it warms. Medium to full body. Rather smooth. If you like vanilla this is right up your alley.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2016
at 03:25