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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5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft @ Clark Street Ale House, Chicago, IL. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Hasa roasted malty vanilla aroma Roasted malty chocolate and vanilla flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and vanilla finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2010
at 08:04
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
11th October 2008. GABF. Clear dark brown beer. Smooth palate. Slighty toasted malt. The vanilla provides a nice balance to the dark flavours. Dry finish.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2010
at 07:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Beer #30 at GTMW, 8-8-09. Brown, but not hazy, I can easily see my fingers through the glass. Nice thick porter type head, light tan color. Not too much smell at this moment. Taste is light in vanilla, that’s a good thing, then good basic porter, but not a lot of coffee apparent.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Aug 2009
at 00:55
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 5
On tap at the MBG Summer Festival. Poured black with a brown head. Aroma consisted of sweet vanilla and dark coffee notes. Flavor consisted of vanilla and chocolate notes, but it became overly sweet and left a ridiculously sweet aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2009
at 20:33
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Pour is a dark black with a small tan head. Aroma is decent enought with some roasted malts with a bit of coffee in there. Flavor is some coffee but then the sourness hits you. Why is every beer from the brewer so sour? Nothing to look for here. Hands down the worst craft brewery in America.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2009
at 22:09
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottles and draught at Sunset Grill mid-2008.
Filtered/force carbonated and I’m not sure whether they pasteurize or not. Regardless, these are some truly washed-out, lifeless beers that are no doubt sterile filtered and full of insipidly sweet, artificial flavors and underfermented sugars. Tastes like candy in a bottle. Sweeter than breckenridge vanilla porter and though it advertises java, it’s certainly not a particularly dainty flavor. The vanilla flavor sits heavily on the palate, mixing in with the chocolatey-sweet sugars and coffee is just an afterthought, adding nothing more than sourness. Little to no roastiness, poor balance, watery mouthfeel. They’ve taken the Stoney Creek Vanilla Porter and made it worse.
Filtered/force carbonated and I’m not sure whether they pasteurize or not. Regardless, these are some truly washed-out, lifeless beers that are no doubt sterile filtered and full of insipidly sweet, artificial flavors and underfermented sugars. Tastes like candy in a bottle. Sweeter than breckenridge vanilla porter and though it advertises java, it’s certainly not a particularly dainty flavor. The vanilla flavor sits heavily on the palate, mixing in with the chocolatey-sweet sugars and coffee is just an afterthought, adding nothing more than sourness. Little to no roastiness, poor balance, watery mouthfeel. They’ve taken the Stoney Creek Vanilla Porter and made it worse.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2009
at 12:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle. Thick brown-black color. Sweet chocolate aroma. Sweet and medium bodied, with a slight sour quality to it. Very drinkable and smooth. The roasted malt, vanilla, and coffee flavors all. An interesting Black Ale, but not exactly world class stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2009
at 18:44
5.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Re-rate 5/4/11: Bottle. Beer of the month club. Black-colored with a small bubbly beige head. Aroma of vanilla, milk chocolate and coffee notes. Sweetish flavor roasty graininess, vegetal hints, vanilla, coffee, a bit of lactic sourness and a drier finish. Light-medium-bodied. Not great, but drinkable unlike last time. 6/3/5/3/11=2.8
Bottle. Beautiful black-colored beer with a magnificent big, stable, beige head. Aroma of roasted coffee, vanilla, some infected yeast acidity notes. Flavor starts sweet and a bit chocolatey with hints of vanilla and very unpleasant sourness, mostly towards the finish. Light-bodied. If it wasn’t for the nasty infection this would probably be a decent beer. I wouldn’t have rated it if I didn’t see in other ratings the infection seems to be a consistent thing. 5/5/3/2/7=2.2
Bottle. Beautiful black-colored beer with a magnificent big, stable, beige head. Aroma of roasted coffee, vanilla, some infected yeast acidity notes. Flavor starts sweet and a bit chocolatey with hints of vanilla and very unpleasant sourness, mostly towards the finish. Light-bodied. If it wasn’t for the nasty infection this would probably be a decent beer. I wouldn’t have rated it if I didn’t see in other ratings the infection seems to be a consistent thing. 5/5/3/2/7=2.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2009
at 17:16
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Pours deep brown into a snifter. Off-white head recedes to hug rim. Sour coffee aromas. Crisp sour vanilla and coffee from front to back. Nasty. Drain pour.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2008
at 19:55
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Sample at the Hopsnobbery Collective Porter tasting on 12/4/08: The beer is nearly opaque black with a thin beige head that dissipates quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Minimal aroma of vanilla and jalapeno. Thin body with a flavor not unlike a few chili peppers, coffee grounds and vanilla extract blended in a garbage disposal. The finish is weak cardboard and coffee. What happened here.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2008
at 15:10