Black Butte Porter
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
7.16
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Bold reputation. Soft disposition. Surprising Balance. Behold an iconic and unexpectedly complex porter that’s more than meets the eye.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 2/27/2016. Pours fairly crystal clear dark brown color with a 2 finger dense and rocky khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big milk chocolate, cocoa, light coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, brown bread, light nuttiness, light plum/apple, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Fantastic aromas with great complexity and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, earthy hops, and light yeast ester notes; with great strength. Taste of milk chocolate, cocoa, light coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, brown bread, light nuttiness, light plum/apple, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, brown bread, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, earthy hops, and light fruity yeast flavors; with a great roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish as expected of 5.2%. Overall this is a fantastic English porter style. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, earthy hops, and light fruity yeast flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. A highly enjoyable offering
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2015
at 20:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at the American craft beer stall at the 2015 Great British Beer Festival, London. Poured very dark brown with a tan colour head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate and roasted malts. Medium sweetness and bitterness, texture is creamy though a little too high in carbonation. Finish of roasted bitterness. Finisher to a great day at GBBF.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2015
at 15:40
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Wine and Cheese Place (Rock Hill) MO. Aroma is roasted malts with mild chocolate. Appearance is very dark brown--almost opaque, with 2-finger beige foamy head with attractive lacing. Taste is moderately sweet with roasted chocolate. Palate is mild to moderate body with thin texture with carbonation to support the beer but not call attention to itself. Finish is mildly sweet. Overall, a nice Porter with a little bit thin palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2015
at 21:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Fra flaske (bb. 300514) på rbhd-samling hos Sigmund, juni-15: mmm, et nydelig anslag mot nesegrevet! Mørk kvalitetskaffe, solbær, vanilje. Og smaken følger opp, denne har tålt lagringen, selv om humleinntyrkket er svakt. Tørr og samtidig myk avslutning.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2015
at 13:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Lukt: Kaffe, bek, lakris, mørk sjokolade og vanilje.
Utseende: Sort.
Skum/kullsyre: Lite skum.
Smak: Kaffe, lakris, sjokolade, vanilje. Noe bitter avslutnign.
Hvor: Kjøpt/Nydt@The Great Beer Bar, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Medium: Tapp@350ml, ABV@5,2%, Når@08.05.2015
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jun 2015
at 11:46
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Shared 355 ml bottle at local tasting, BB date 30.05. 2014, from Fakta, Denmark. Very dark brown colour, nearly black. Moderate off-white head. Moderate roasty aroma, notes of dark chocolate and mild coffee. Medium dry flavour, again notes of dark chocolate and mild coffee, dry finish. Too modest hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2015
at 07:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[2/27/15] Draught at Deschutes Brewery & Public House in Portland. Black. Roasty aroma with some licorice, coffee and a bit of chocolate. Bittersweetish roasty flavor with coffee, licorice, and a dry bitter finish. Medium-bodied.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2015
at 17:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours with a dark brown mahogany body that supports a thin dark tan head. The mild aroma offers up bits of dark roasted malts, chocolate and malt balls. The taste starts with lightly roasted malts, lightly roasted earthy coffee and then thin slivers of chocolate. Behind those notes the malts and a bit of nuttiness have an astringent edge to them. Classic Porter. The chocolate grows as more ounces are consumed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2015
at 17:51