Tuckaleechee Porter
Smoky Mountain Brewery in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States 🇺🇸
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6.13
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle: Dark brown pour with a finger of beige head. Aroma is lightly roasty with mostly coffee coming through. Tastes sweet and full of cocoa. Light roasty element. Light bitters in the tail. A bit more roasty and coffee notes as it warms to room tmep. Not bad. Thanks Lithy.
jcr (3164) reviewed Tuckaleechee Porter from Smoky Mountain Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 12
Bottle. Perhaps my mistake was drinking this immediately after having had a Founders porter. This, in contrast, seemed anemic. But after awhile, it picked up a little steam. Still, a rather thin, lightly roasted porter. Dark brown pour with tan head, mostly diminishing. The aroma had hints of roasted malt, caramel, sugar and chocolate. The flavor was moderately sweet throughout, too sweet, in fact. Had light tastes of caramel and chocolate. Finished dry with a slight tartness. Light to medium body with a watery texture and moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle-pours a disappearing tan head and dark mahogany color. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate/roasty. Taste is sweet dark malt-chocolate/roasty/ peat/molasses, secondary earthy hops. OK carbonation. Hint of vinegar. Full body. Nice. Thanks decaturstevo for sharing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From tronraner, thank you. I believe this is the first beer I have ever had that was brewed in Tennessee, and it happens to be one with a name I can’t pronounce. It pours a water-y black color, meaning its all black but I do not get the feel of "motor oil" black. It’s probably because it looks a bit dead with almost no head or lacing. With a lot of stirring and vigorous shaking of the glass a nice tan foam appears, unfortunately even that quickly fades. Both taste and aroma are relatively similar and simple. They both have positive aspects of caramel, chocolate, milkiness, and light roast. All the good stuff you want in a nice porter. However, there are a few off putting aspects. There is a mineral quality more present in the flavor and a soapy-bean aspect more apparent in the aroma and aftertaste. But otherwise its light and easy drinking, leaves a long aftertaste with bitter chocolate. The mineral quality is felt in the mouthfeel as well, would like to see this a but thicker. It’s nice enough. As it warms the negative aspects become more apparent and the mineral mouthfeel grows as well,
12oz bottle, Rodenbach smaller tulip glass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 oz. bottle from Suttree, enjoyed with tjthresh. Pour is brownish-ruby, very wispy tan head. Aroma of roast coffee, a bit of malt. Taste of thin, slightly roast coffee. A bit of malt watered down iced coffee (thanks for lifting my phrase Tom). Thin body made this drinkable, but not terribly exciting. Thanks for this one Phil, always love trying new beers!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Sour malt, walnut, and charcoal aroma. Dark black-brown with moderate head. Creamy chocolate malt and charcoal flavor. Mild bitter finish. Decent but just a bit heavy on the carbon flavor for me.
JK (8171) reviewed Tuckaleechee Porter from Smoky Mountain Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
My thanks to Suttree for this one. This beer is dark, with only the lightest red hue. Little carbonation, but some brown foam lingering on top of the beer. It smells better than it tastes. There is some smoke, coffee and chocolate, and lots of roasted character. Flavor has some sweet potato and more roasted malt, with only a hint of coffee. A little bit sour in the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtesy of Brentfeesh: Poured a nice dark porter with a small foamy head with average retention. Aroma of smoke and peat in quite intense and surprising as I wasn’t expecting this. Taste is a mix between some subtle smoky malts with some sweet lightly roasted malt. Body is a bit light for the style. I almost wondered if I tasted the same beers as the other folk because I didn’t get any sourness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle Pours a dark, nearly black witha small tan head and thick even lacing. Classic dark roasted aroma with some coffee and a littel of that porter sourness/twang. Flavor is a mild woody flavor. Not nearly as much of that smokey, charcoal flavor as the aroma hinted at. Rather pale tasting for the style witha pulpy, almost grassy trailer. Very littel hoppiness or biterness. Soft carbonation. Thanks to Ohiodad for this one
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Tuckaleechee Porter from Smoky Mountain Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Bottle purchased at Hop and Leaf February 2005. Filtered brown color, which after pouring, quickly becomes a transparent brownish-mahogany with some light garnet highlights on the edges. At first there is some cream/yellow head, but it quickly fades to nothing. Aroma, ah what’s this, a slightly promising aroma? There is definite, though muted smoke in there (light wood, charcoal, burnt coffee) with some light choco-caramel tones and perhaps a touch of yeast. Flavor, unfortunately, dosent keep up with the aroma and I’m left with a watery smoked-water sort of concoction with little to no malt substance to it and a horribly thin and watery body. Actually, I wasnt left with it, the grass that I poured it on was.