Blue Law Porter
Epic Brewing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.38
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Rel. 1 - 5.9 ABV
Rel. 2 - 7.0 ABV
Rel. 3 - 6.3 ABV
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Stuu (34525) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours black, nose is roast chocolate, butterscotch, taste is roasted, light fruitiness.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours a dark amber with beige head leaving spotty lacing. Aroma is bready malt and faint blueberry. Thin mouthfeel with tangy berry and resin. Decent.
superspak (10160) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22 ounce bottle into signature pint glass; Release 2, bottled 12/6/2012. Pours crystal clear deep reddish brown color with a 1 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of milk chocolate, blackberry, roasted malt, toast, caramel, floral, coffee, light spruce, and roasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of roasted malt notes with blackberry and light spruce tip additions; with solid strength. Taste of milk chocolate, roasted malt, blackberry, toast, caramel, floral, pine, light coffee, and toasted earthiness. Slight pine bitterness and light fruit tartness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate, blackberry, roasted malt, toast, caramel, floral, pine, light coffee, and toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice balance and complexity of roasted malt and fruit flavors; with a very nice malt/fruit balance with light-moderate spruce presence; and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a creamy and slightly syrupy mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a nice fruited porter. Good balance of roasted malt and fruit flavors; and very smooth to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle at CGarvie tasting (release #1). It pours very dark brown with a small beige head. The nose is buttered toast, roasted malt....not much else. The taste is dark fruit, berry, light tanginess, roasty, earth, faint jam, toast, light spice and wood. Medium body and fine carbonation. Odd...tastes better than the buttery smell anyways!
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
bottle at home Release 1 ... deep in black ... thin tan lacing ... soft butter ... roast malts ... soft off butter flavour ... soft roast ... soft blackberry ... shame as this is nice behind the butter ...
ericsc (2969) ticked Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 12 years ago
ben4321 (11522) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Location: 22 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 3/21/13, Release 1
Aroma: The nose is pretty much what I expected, a mix of roasted malts, fruit, and spruce
Appearance: This beer pours a dark brown color with a small tan head and some light, spotty lace
Flavor: The taste gets rather sweet, similar to the nose, but the fruit comes out a touch more
Palate: The body is light-medium, but not watery, with fairly smooth feel, and a short finish
Overall Impression: Rating #1 of the (real) 2013 Tourney! (I don't count the new first round - aka Play-in games.) This wasn't one of my favorite efforts from Epic. It's not even so much that I didn't enjoy the blackberry and spruce, but it's more that I feel like the underlying Porter was only okay, and then the ingredient additions didn't really improve or hurt the beer much (though the blackberry is probably responsible for the fact that there's too much sweetness). This series can be a bit hit or miss, and this one, though not terrible, felt closer to a miss.
obguthr (12465) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Smells like a plastic strawberry shortcake doll that my sister used to have in the 1980s. I’m no doll sniffer, it was supposed to smell like strawberries. It had some weird kind of artificial berry perfume to make it smell that way. Clear garnet, medium yellow head, good lacing. Mulberry flavor, slightly tart. Apple core at midpalate. I’m not a fan of fruit flavored porters, but this was respectable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours with a slightly hazed very deep brown hue with a small, off-white head with marginal head retention. Aromas are of cocoa, milk chocolate, dark fruits, bitter, earthy, berries, licorice, iodine, nutty, high protein grain, toasty. Coffee, molasses, fruity. Flavors are of roast, cola, molasses, and jammy berries. Pretty dry. Mild rustic, resiny, earthy character. Smooth roast, tart red wine. Clean albeit dry finish. Not bad. Bitter finish. Moderate carbonation, thin. Not bad
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Blue Law Porter from Epic Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bomber pours mahogany with a loose tan head of foam. The aroma is a little blueberry esters, a little dusty nuttiness, a mineral note and just a dash of roasted malts. The taste is similar where I get a sliver of sweet dark fruity esters mixing with a mildly tart note, some nuttiness and then roasted malts. Into the finish some highly roasted malts join in too. There seems to be an off flavor too that’s sort of tartness or maybe a light astringency that is a tad off putting. OK, the label states Spruce Tips, maybe that’s what’s going on.