Vanilla Porter
Breckenridge Brewery in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.59
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Real vanilla beans from Madagascar combined with caramel and Munich malts create a beer that’s balanced and flavorful. Aromas of vanilla and toasted grain set the stage for mellow flavors of vanilla and dark roasted malts. Don’t let its deep mahogany color fool you. Vanilla Porter is dark in color and packed with flavor, yet it is as smooth as they come and easy to enjoy at any time of the year.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft pour at the field brewpub. Rating from notes. This beer was the standout favorite from the Breckenridge beers, and it was hardly close. Pours a dark brownish red color with a big bubble head. Vanilla comes through huge here. Definitely the dominant flavor, as expected. Sweet caramel, with minimum chocolate. Pretty good porter. Good beer here.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Sep 2015
at 21:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
355ml bottle
Pours dark brown with a smooth head. Aroma of roasty malts, coffee, hints of vanilla and chocolate. Taste is sweetish, creamy and artificial with loads of vanilla, chooclate and coffee. Finish is sweet, creamy and slightly artificial with some roastiness, vanilla and milk chocolate. Feels a bit artificial.
Pours dark brown with a smooth head. Aroma of roasty malts, coffee, hints of vanilla and chocolate. Taste is sweetish, creamy and artificial with loads of vanilla, chooclate and coffee. Finish is sweet, creamy and slightly artificial with some roastiness, vanilla and milk chocolate. Feels a bit artificial.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2015
at 00:26
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
35,5 cl bottle @ hotel room, San Diego. Aroma has sweet malty tones and some cocoa. Also some vanilla. Feels like a bock. Flavour has artifical vanilla, some malty notes and harsh malt. A watery bock with vanilla extract added. Could not locate the porter here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2015
at 00:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a soft mostly dark brown color with no head nor lacing.
The smell starts off with a light roasted coffee bean, vanilla slightly comes into balance with a light cocoa coming about. Light nuttiness does also enter in as it warms.
The taste has a mellow roast to semi-sweet vanilla/cocoa that leads to a gentle dry and roasty coffee aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it.
Overall, as an American Porter it works. The added bonus, the vanilla and that helps to make this a subtle dessert on a late Spring evening.
The appearance was a soft mostly dark brown color with no head nor lacing.
The smell starts off with a light roasted coffee bean, vanilla slightly comes into balance with a light cocoa coming about. Light nuttiness does also enter in as it warms.
The taste has a mellow roast to semi-sweet vanilla/cocoa that leads to a gentle dry and roasty coffee aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it.
Overall, as an American Porter it works. The added bonus, the vanilla and that helps to make this a subtle dessert on a late Spring evening.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jun 2015
at 23:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Happy Hour, 25th May 2015: on-tap US pint in the Yard House, Irvine. Very dark beer in a very dark bar, think the head was a tanned affair. Nose is malty, as is the taste: once the beer begins to warm and settle in the glass it gives off subtle esters and flavours hidden by the coldness on serving. Chocolate notes with a vanilla ice cream smoothness ooze out of the beer, very pleasant Porter with enough going on to not need a heavy ABV level.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 May 2015
at 07:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours reddish brown with medium sized spongy beige head, vanilla mocha aroma, medium carbonation, roasted nut taste with vanilla flavor, abrupt finish with burnt aftertaste. Quite a smooth and enjoyable porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2015
at 15:35
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at Rattle N Hum cons 2015-05-16 New York AP: dark reddish brown, stoty cream beige head AR/F: heavy artificial vanilla, dry vanilla powder, litmus paper
Tried
on 20 May 2015
at 03:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Hannaford Exeter, NH. Aroma is mild vanilla with a hint of chocolate. A little bit of yeasty bread dough. Appearance is clear, dark magenta--almost black with decent sparkle and only a ring of a head. Taste is strong vanilla, moderately sweet. Palate is surprisingly thin and light bodied for a porter while carbonation is fairly lively--an initial light sting to the lips and then a bit later on the tongue. Finish is pretty average with mix of sweet and mild bitter. Overall, a good choice if you are looking for a really light porter (almost a non-porter) with the appearance and taste characteristics but not the palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2015
at 21:04
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
Bottle from JSA. Dark brown to black with a tan head. Aroma is vanilla and malt. Flavour is caramel malt with vanilla, thin enough texture.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2015
at 15:34
8/10
Impressive. Very vanilla up front and a good porter follow-through
Tried
on 28 Dec 2014
at 21:06