Vanilla Java Porter
Atwater Brewery in Detroit, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.00
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Coffee notes? Check. Porter notes? Check. A coffee beer that any brewer could make? Better check again. This is VJP – an easygoing dark beer with the makings of both a sweet-vanilla coffee house java and a smoky English style porter. Despite its looking every bit as black as a regular dark roast Joe, it goes down like it’s frothy with cream and sugar. Sip and ‘ahhh.’
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7/10
Tried
on 29 Apr 2013
at 21:10
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle from my friend Eric, and nothernbrews also sent me one. Thanks guys! Pours a clear dark brown color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of big cocoa notes, mild coffee, vanilla and roast. The taste is tootsie rolls, cocoa, vanilla, toasted notes, herbal hops, coffee. Thin bodied. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2013
at 21:18
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Vanilla, chocolate, and tin aroma. Dark brown with small head. Sweet vanilla, tin and very light malt flavor. Very light body. Not much to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2012
at 21:18
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Draft. Clear dark brown, beige head. This one is thin bodied Hersheys syrup.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Nov 2012
at 08:54
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 8
tap at Stagshead. Pours jet black with thin brown head. Nose of vanilla and coffee. Tastes of vanilla, coffee, cola, and some herbal qualities. A little thin in palate and finishes sweet.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Oct 2012
at 11:51
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Faint caramel malt, some light coffee and chocolate aroma. Reminds me more of a roasty amber than a porter. Dark brown with a small tan head. Sweet roasty malt, metallic vanilla, and light ash flavor. Light carbonated body. Generally, thin watery flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2012
at 17:02
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
A deep dark porter with a thick brown head. In aroma, a rather strange and herbaceous black olive aroma. In mouth, a rather bad mix of cocoa powder and black olive brown, salty, plain bad.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2012
at 14:45
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
12oz bottle from Crossroads Beer & Wine, Burlington, MA. Cola like appearance - deep magohany brown with a ring of cream head; aroma of vanilla and chocolate; rather thin with a sweet chocolate malt taste with a hint of coffee towards the dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2012
at 16:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle–pours a tan head with brown color. Aroma is vanilla, raosty/chocolate-dark malt. Taste is vanilla, coffee/roasty/chocolate-dark malt, some earth hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2011
at 05:59
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried to rate this as objectively as possible. Picked up the bottle because I had never heard of the brewer before, andi love porter, but this was pretty pathetic. Poured ok, but not a lot of head, smell is vanilla bean, a little chocolate, some roasted malts, taste however, is lame, no big flavors, everything is muddled together, not terrible, not a drain pour by any means, just disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2011
at 19:39