Eel River Brewing Company Certified Organic Porter

Certified Organic Porter

 

Eel River Brewing Company in Fortuna, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter Regular
Score
6.73
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 19 Ticks: 67
No other beer shows off what malts can do in a beer better than porter. Certified Organic Porter uses a complex blend of five malts that compliment and highlight one another in a harmonious mixture. Only one addition of imported Pacific Gem hops is used to provide a balancing bitterness without introducing any other hop character. While decidedly in the robust porter category, Certified Organic Porter has none of the harsh character people often associate with dark ales. Instead, what one finds is a rich, smooth beer with suggestions of chocolate and just a hint of coffee. So smooth and malty, this porter will convert even the non-dark beer drinker.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle 355ml @ home
Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, caramel, dried fruits, chocolate and hint of toast. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long caramel and chocolate finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2015 at 12:34


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle, 5.8%. Very dark brown with medium beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, little bread and hop. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, liquorice, medium sweet, hop, little salt liquorice, hop and a little bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2015 at 11:53



7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice dark brown color with a one and a half white to off white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute in a concave fashion. The lacing sticks finely to the sides of the glass.
The smell has a nice sharp robust roasty coffee blended nicely with some light chocolate.
The taste has a smooth rolling flavorful blend of coffee to chocolate with a nice light maltiness just rolling underneath it all. There’s a decent rich smooth coffee to chocolate aftertaste that leads to a nice smooth sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sits about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation is fairly low in this beer but still good for the style and for me.
Overall, wow, what a nice Porter. Organic or not, I don’t care, I’d have this again.

Tried on 01 Jul 2014 at 15:06


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Pours black with a quickly fading head.Nose shows some chocolate, a little roasted malt, some faint coffee. Appetizing.Relatively subtle flavours, some roast and soft liquorice along with bready and toasty malt. A bit of acidity from the roast.Nice moderate carbonation.

Tried on 16 Jun 2014 at 04:12


5.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle. A dark brown beer with a beige head that’s soon less than a coat. Aroma of mocha and dark berries. Rather thin. Fairly dry with cocoa, Milo, some dark fruits, little bitterness, slightly astringent at the end. Some OK malty things going on, but it’s all a bit vague and athematic (unless "organic beers often lack presence" is a theme).

Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2014 at 05:55


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle: Poured a dark brown with reddish hint and thin light beige head. Aroma is a leafy malt. Taste is dark bakers chocolate, tobacco, and roasted malt.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Oct 2013 at 23:09


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Poured from a bottle it is a dark brown beer with a cream colored head. The aroma is roasted malts and the taste is of toasted malts that has a cOffee finish on the palate.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2013 at 15:18


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

From a 12 bottle shared in Avon, NC. Pours a dark cola brown with an ecru head. Malty nose with notes of caramel and toffee. Flavor also includes some coffee. A quite flavorful porter. Moderate to high carbonation. Mouthfeel on the thin side. Mildly bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2013 at 14:52


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at Petrol Station. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is a roasted malt and raisin. Thin mouthfeel with a sweet roasted malt with raisin and nice light dry finish. A good porter from Eel River.

Tried from Draft on 15 Nov 2012 at 18:05