Classic commercial example #BJCPPractice. Medium
Body, dark brown, toasty, slight earthy hop

Tap at Yard House, Las Vegas, 19th February 2022. Pours a dark brown. Aroma is milk chocolate and caramel. Taste is nuts, caramel and malts, chocolate. Bit thin and watery, OK

Bottle. Malty aroma and taste, chocolate, light roasty notes, medium bitter. Medium body, malty chocolate bitter finish. Good.

Bottle. Dark brown with medium beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, Taste, coffee, roasted malt, light caramel, chocolate. Light bodied beer. Good example of style.

I’ve seen this beer around for years. Never tried it although I have had a couple of years of the Deschutes imperial porters. Like those significantly. I located a single 12 oz bottle at my best craft beer shop and have it cooled off now. Lift the lid and pour into a Cowtown snifter. The arrival is a sturdy, dark brown with a decent representation of light tan foam that departs mostly. I smell chocolate, grain and field. The taste ultimately, I get light chocolate, cereal, berries and a small bitterness. I appreciate the depth of the higher abv brews, so this falls down in my estimation because of the thinness. My story and I’m sticking to it.

I used to like this beer much more but I guess times Change. The Aromas are dark malt, toast, cocoa, molasses and a bit of licorice. Flavors are very much like nose, bittersweet, aggressive carbonation which doesn't really help I think. Still a decent beer.

Conf: Draft at Roundhouse, HK 10-15-16 Hong Kong Free Beer event

Tap @ Deschutes taproom, Bend. Pours clear deep brown, small off-white head. Aroma has liquorice nods, dark malt. Taste is liquorice-forward, distant chocolate, fairly light bodied, easy-drinking, gentle coffee hints. Nice flavourful, light porter.

Brown bottle, 355 ml, bottled on 12/01/17, drunk at Three Ravens Restaurant, served in a pils glass (?!?!), trip to the International Population Data Linkage Network conference, savoured on September 14 2018; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, thin sheet of beige head, light lacing; nose: coffee, roasting, chocolate, light caramel, light fig; mouth: coffee, roasting, chocolate, light caramel, light fig, light lactic, slight cocoa, finale in coffee with light presence of burnt malt, medium-full body, lightly below-average carbonation, mildly bitter, lightly sweet, silky texture; overall: quite good

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Bouteille brune, 355 ml, 5,2 %, embouteillée le 12/01/17, savourée chez Three Ravens Restaurant, voyage pour la conférence International Population Data Linkage Network, servie dans un verre pils (!?!?), savourée le 14 septembre 2018; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, mince couverture de mousse beige, légère dentelle; nez : café, torréfaction, chocolat, léger caramel, léger figue; bouche : café, torréfaction, chocolat, léger caramel, léger figue, léger lactique, très léger cacao, finale en café avec légère présence de malt brûlé, corps moyen-corsé, carbonatation légèrement sous la moyenne, moyennement amère, légèrement sucrée, texture soyeuse; en résumé : bien bon