Anchor Brewing Company Porter

Porter

 

Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter Regular
Score
7.43
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 40 Ticks: 329
Anchor Porter became the first modern American porter style beer when it was introduced in 1972. A blend of specially roasted pale, caramel, chocolate, and black malts, along with our top-fermenting yeast, creates complexity without bitterness. The brew is hopped at a high rate, and naturally carbonated. The result is dark in the glass, but surprisingly light on the palate.
 

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7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
355ml bottle from RusBeerShop. Pours black with a medium-sized brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, dark fruits, dark chocolate. Taste is light sweet, roasted barley, dried fruit, ash, medium bitterness. A fine porter.
Tried from Bottle on 29 May 2018 at 15:44

7/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
WIrklich gutes Porter mit feinen Aromen nach Bitterschokolade und Kaffee. Kann man nur empfehlen,
Tried from Bottle on 21 May 2018 at 17:39

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Dark brown colour, light beige head. Aroma of caramel, chocolate, malts, dark fruits. Sweet malty flavour, sweet chocolate, dark fruits. Sweet finish, caramel, lingering light bitterness. Nice!
(from 35cL bottle @ my German hideout)
Tried from Bottle on 13 May 2018 at 19:51

8.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 10 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
L’utilisation de Northern Brewer donne un résultat assez surprenant sur un Porter. Et d’autant plus pour moi qui apprécie les arômes francs de malts torréfiés de café et chocolat. Ici, les qualités aromatiques du houblon confèrent beaucoup de fraîcheur sur des notes herbacées. L’équilibre est cependant excellent, la complexité au rendez-vous et l’alcool, à 5,6% très efficace. En verre, nous sommes sur un noir total avec une mousse beige nappant juste la surface. Le café est sur une belle complexité avec du chocolat, du café, du pruneau, de la noisette, et une fraîcheur herbacée qui ne nous quittera pas. L’attaque est sur une fraicheur herbacée avec raisin, chocolat, petite pointe balsamique et légèrement épicé. La deuxième est à la fois plus riche et plus ample avec en complément café, pruneau et une arrière bouche d’une bonne ampleur (mais sur la même ligne aromatique). La suite est davantage orientée sur le café et la molasse, mais toujours sur cette même amertume herbacée. Il y a toujours certaines beautés pour lesquelles nous sommes plus ou moins hermétiques et ce porter n’aura pas complètement conquis mon cœur malgré ses qualités indéniables.
Tried on 09 May 2018 at 14:53

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Andover Liquors. Appearance is almost opaque black--dark brown with mahogany--with nice sparkle at the edges of the glass, 2-finger width light brown foamy head with good retention and fair, soapy lacing. Aroma is roasted malt, toffee, chocolate, vanilla, cardboard. Taste is roasted malt, dark fruit, earth. Palate is medium bodied with frothy texture, hint of astringency, soft carbonation and silky, more sweet than bitter finish. Overall, strong all around.
Tried from Bottle on 05 May 2018 at 02:25

7/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle, 0.355l. Dark ruby pour, two finger frothy beige head. Medium retention, lots of lacing. Heavily malty nose, sugary, loads of caramel. Yeasty notes, reminds me of some Belgian brews. Thin to medium body. Prickly carbonation, lingering between soft and medium. Sweet malty taste with some roasty bitter notes following. Aroma like the nose, more similarities with Belgian beers then with what I recognize as porter. Heavily malty, caramel, toffee, sugar. Syrupy. Herbal notes in the background, slightly peppery. Wheat and yeast. Medium lasting finish, slightly bitter. Overall, fine brew but not what I expected from a porter. Ok.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Mar 2018 at 14:35

8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 oz. bottle. Pours almost black with a creamy two-finger light beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee notes. Taste is roasted malt, coffee notes, bits of dark fruit. Finish is roasty and dry with very faint vinous notes. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2018 at 06:31

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Pours an attractive black with a couple of fingers of dense mocha head that shows good retention and some lacing. A rather simple but clean and intense aroma shows roasted malts, slight coffee and vivid red fruits among a general soft feel. Taste is very much the same and maybe a bit less bright than the aroma suggested. Overall medium sweet and medium bitter with neither standing out, maybe a slight bitter edge in a quite dry finish. Light to medium bodied with light to medium carbonation resulting in a semi-creamy feel. Overall a well crafted porter with a bit less roasted malts than usual.
Tried on 01 Feb 2018 at 15:04

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 08 Dec 2017 at 19:56

8.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 7
Bottle at home in Beer Hawk advent calendar. Perfect pour and a very handsome beer in the glass. The flavour was, as expected, all about those roasted and toasted malts with lots of biscuit and bitterness. It also had a very smooth mouthfeel that was given every assistance by the beer being served at the perfect temperature. A clinically well made porter that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Dec 2017 at 02:31