Left Hand Brewing Company SmokeJumper Imperial Smoked Porter

SmokeJumper Imperial Smoked Porter

 

Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter - Smoked Regular
Score
7.56
ABV: 8.8% IBU: 50 Ticks: 126
Here in Colorado we are blessed with abundant natural beauty.
Smokejumpers are those fearless wildland firefighters who specialize in parachuting into the wilderness so that we can continue to enjoy it. Smokejumper Imperial Porter is a tribute to them - a twenty-one degree plato porter made with barley malt hand- smoked by our brewers. Roasty brown in color, the long lingering smokiness wraps around flavors of molasses, toasted malt and an earthy hoppiness. Here’s to smoke in your glass, not in the woods. Smokejumper is the official beer of The National Smokejumper Association.
www.smokejumpers.com.
 

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8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 9
First rating65 cl (bomber) bottle, from Systembolaget NordstanOn February 23, 2009BB 12-2010Labelled 9.9% ABVVery dark brown to black color, small brown head. Fruity, sweet, licorice, crusched white pepper, smoke and alcohol scent. Sweet, malty, grainy, smoke, licorice, alcohol taste. Long dry roasted and alcohol afteraste. Smooth mouthfeel, low bitterness.7/4/6/4/13=3.4RerateSampled at Rackhouse Pub, Denver CO, on October 10, 2012, during the event Colorado Rare Beer Tasting2008 aged bottleDark brown color, dark brown head. Sweet, malty scent. Sweet, dry, grainy taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.This has aged very well.9/4/9/3/18=4.3
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2009 at 16:45

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Draught, Oldsmar Tap House
Near black. Thick light brown head. Smokey, meaty aroma with rich chocolate malt and a slight dark fruit note. Rich dark malts, molasses & dark fruits with just a sick amount of smoke piled on top of that.
Tried from Draft on 21 Feb 2009 at 07:51

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to blutt59. Pours with a light brown head over a near black body. Aroma is smoke, with jerky, some artificial smoke, meat and wood. Taste is beef, chocolate, smoke and pepper. Syrupy mouthfeel with light bubbles. I am not a big smoked beer fan, but this one has its merits.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Feb 2009 at 13:40

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Draft @ Redlight Redlight, 2nd beer in a Smoked horizontal. Deep brown color with a rich head and heavy lacing. Earthy campfire smokiness. Notes of chocolate. Flavor brings a decidedly smoky and meaty flavor with the most amazing notes of a salty minerally bleu cheese. Really it became a liquid bleu cheese. Simply amazing funkiness. Freaky awesome. I have never encountered anything like that in a beer.
Tried from Draft on 05 Feb 2009 at 22:25

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Thanks to JaBier for sharing a bottle. This beer pours a solid black color with a thin and compact tan head that diminishes slowly. Thin rings of lacing on the glass. Smoked ham aroma with some dark malt and wood in the background. Medium-bodied with a strong smoked character and flavors of burnt wood, malt and hops. The finish is smokey and malty with a light alcohol and hops aftertaste. Overall this is a decent beer, however it veers a little too far on the smoky side for my tastes.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2009 at 17:35

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Served on draft as part of the Black Moonday event at Capital Alehouse in Richmond, VA. Pours a dark brown color with a small head and average head retention. Aroma is smoke, leather and mint. Taste is smoke and minty hops. Full bodied and slightly sticky.
Tried from Draft on 27 Jan 2009 at 01:20

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a thick and dark brown with a small and slow-forming head. Aromas are sweet with a touch of smoke... almost a brown sugar sweetness and a peat and woodsmoke smokiness. I expected the aromas to be a bit more pronounced. A bit of a vinous quality and chocolate to the nose as well. Flavor is a pleasant mix of peat, charcoal and bacon-which is the most pronounced of the smoke flavors until the very end of the finish. The sweetness from the malt is a little overbearing at times... a brown sugar, fig/prune and mild chocolate presence there. This is pretty good, but I expected a little more from it.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jan 2009 at 21:09

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pour is a pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is smoke with some meatyness. Flavor is again smoke with some bacon and roasted ham. I’m not a fan of smoked beers but they did hit the mark on the head with this one. But this is another beer that should not be in a 22 bottle as you could only take a small sample in a sitting.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2009 at 21:32

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tap OTH. Pours blakc brown with brown head. Aroma is very smokey, bacon like smoked pork. with a faint roasted coffee, caramel malts. Taste is once gain loaded with smoke, light malts. Overall mouthfeel is smokey followed by a near dark fruit palate. With gained ambient temperature, the malts became more prominent while smoke was attenuated. Overall finish has some light hops with present caramel malts and warming abv. A lightly higher version of the smoked Goosinator.
Tried from Draft on 07 Jan 2009 at 04:22

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at Eulogy, Philadelphia, in the company of Loz, Casey and Traci on my fortieth birthday, 16-11-08. Pours black, brown head. A stunning beer, quite unusual with an almost cheesy feel to it at times, maybe that smoked processed stuff? Quite roasty, little furry feeling in the mouth, there is a slight Schlerlenka feel to this at times, and that’s a big compliment. Smokiness continues throughout and this is a very nice beer. A7 A4 F8 P4 OV16 3.9
Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2008 at 16:41