Upland Brewing Company Bad Elmer's Porter

Bad Elmer's Porter

 

Upland Brewing Company in Bloomington, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter Regular
Score
6.44
ABV: 6.0% IBU: 40 Ticks: 29
Even if you aren’t as tough as Bad Elmer, you can still drink with him. This porter is a medium-bodied beer, brewed with lots of roasted malt, giving it flavors of coffee, liquorice, and chocolate. It’s rich, creamy, and characteristically dark yet extremely smooth. The initial light sweetness is followed by a clean, dry, roasty finish.
 

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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
4oz pour at Churchkey is a transparent, deep brown. Malty nose, sweet, brown sugar. Flavors of light coffee, brown sugar, malt, a little cola. Standard, sweet porter.
Tried on 19 Jun 2012 at 16:39

7.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 7
Draft. Very dark ruby maroon, massive thick brown head, great tetention, solid lacing. Aroma of toasted and roasted coffee grounds abd cocoa. Taste is dilute coffee, chocolate, burnt espesso. More of an English style porter, which is fine by me.
Tried from Draft on 08 Jun 2012 at 15:03

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Served on draft at the Indianapolis tasting room. Pours a dark chestnut color with a large creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of sweet malts and roasted malts with a hoppy finish. Similar taste but this time with nutty notes in the finish as well. Medium bodied. Nice beer.
Tried from Draft on 11 Aug 2011 at 19:02

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bottle. Pours cola brown with a frothy tan head. Aroma was roasty caramel malt, nutty. Flavor was coffee, roasted malt and a flat metallic aftertaste. Light mouthfeel with a bit of carbonated tingle.
Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2011 at 17:47

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Purchased at Breeze Thru in Milwaukee, WI; enjoyed on a chilly Thursday night in the shower. This isn’t too bad, just a standard chocolate porter. Appearance pure black with a thin tan head. Aroma of pure chocolate, mocha, and creaminess. Taste just like the aroma but not as creamy, kind of thin for a porter. Not bad though.
Tried on 10 Feb 2011 at 17:32

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
thanks Tony @ OTH for the share. pours brown, med-tan head. aroma and palate, roast and coffee, dry palate, Light coffee, with some fantastic roast malts, finish with a mild bitterness. Mouthfeel is light but with plenty of flavors to go around.
Tried on 12 Aug 2010 at 11:06

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a deep red brown with a light tan head. Aroma is a bit light, but features coffee and cocoa. Flavor is quite robust, with anise, coffee, dark fruit, and cocoa. Great job.
Tried from Draft on 02 Aug 2010 at 19:58

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
12oz bottle. Pours a deep brown black color with a patchy beige head. The aroma is malty with just a touch of sour tartness. Medium bodied, a very easy drinker, which achieves a pretty balance between the sweet dark malt and the light hops. Roasty, with some cocoa tastes. A pretty nice beer, a little underwhelming in body, but still quality.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2009 at 23:52

5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
A dark clear brown porter with a super thick moka head. A light chocolate with off notes of olive. In mouth, a rather simple porter with light coffee notes, short in mouth, signs of infection. Oktoberfest evening at Marc Gratton’s, taste on April 20 2007
Tried on 30 Jun 2008 at 22:21

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
This beer is a mostly clear dark brown color with a medium thin and creamy beige head that diminishes steadily. Spotty lacing. Aroma of earthy malt and touches of chocolate and nuts. Medium, clean body with malt, nut and pine flavors. The finish is short and nutty with a burnt malt aftertaste. All in all this is a pretty standard Porter.
Tried on 24 Nov 2007 at 14:43