Porter (4.35%)
Snipes Mountain Microbrewery in Sunnyside, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.34
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Location: Bottle at Max and Andy's Fantasy Tasting, 5/1/10
Aroma: The nose on this one is roasted malts, some coffee, licorice, and toasted grains
Appearance: Clear brownish-black color with a beige head
Flavor: The taste is fairly simple, light taste, roasted malts, some sweetness
Palate: This porter is fairly thin, even a little on the watery side, with a light-medium body
Overall Impression: My first rating from this brewery, heck, I'd never even heard of it before I tried this beer at the tasting. Anyway, I wasn't particularly impressed. I don't know if this was a bad bottle, but I didn't get as positive an impression as many of the previous raters did.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Malt & Vine. Pours dark brown/black with a few tan bubbles. Aromas of dark burnt malt, mild sour/smoke and a touch of coffee. Medium plus body with rather smooth carbonation. Chocolate and coffee attack the tongue. A bit chalky. Finishes with coffee bitter, and a touch of smoke and/or sour. Really exceptional porter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Poured brown black with frothy beige head. Much lacing. Aroma of smoke and roast malt. Very smoky flavour, a little chocolate, a little roast, but mostly smoke. Tangy smoky finish, with more roast.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught End-of-scale dark brown; orange-brown dark head. Coffee, roasted cold coffee and toasted bread crust make up the nose. Chocolate, coffee and dry toasted grains, but some maltsweetness lurking below. Faint traces of (over)ripe banana. Medium bodied at best, grist slickness. Decent porter, but run-of-the-mill.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle pours very dark. Almost black. Very little head and not even enough for any real lacing. Smells sweet and the clasic dark, coffee, molassas that is common of the type. Soap. Not sure if its Dial or Zest. Bitter, soapy, maybe I should have said lather above instead of head. I am a fan of porters but this just doesn’t do it for me. Just doesn’t have that soft smooth feel. Finishes thin and a bit harsh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Brown with small tan head.Nose of dry malt and chocolate. Dry malt & light chocolate taste with medium bitterness
TimE (11146) reviewed Porter (4.35%) from Snipes Mountain Microbrewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Has tight light brown head, a nose of roasted malt and dark chocolate with just a touch of smokiness. The body is coffeeish, with overtones of smoke and dark chocolate, a little sourness is detected in the mouth, but the body is too loose. Then a lack luster bitter coffee finish.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Porter (4.35%) from Snipes Mountain Microbrewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Very dark brown, but I couldn''t get too much foam working. Coffeeish, slightly nutty, almost meaty aroma (you could definitely make a good stew with this). Rich palate, good full body. Coffee, black bread, poppy seeds, woody hops. Dry, lingering finish. The Style Police in me says that this is a stout because porters are not supposed to be so roasty, but the beer itself is fine.