7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

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

7.1

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

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

7

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

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.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

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.

7.2

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

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.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

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

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

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.

7.5

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

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

FRANÇAIS
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

8.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Pours dark reddish brown with a thick tan head. Strong aroma of watered malt. Taste has rich creamy notes of coffee and chocolate. Palate has the most subtle element of hops and a fascinating sweetened note that is almost imperceptible. Fantastic porter, absolutely indicative of style.

6

Creamy, light body,chocolate & coffee