Snowdrift Vanilla Porter
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.30
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Robust porter style beer aged on real vanilla
Drift into winter with Snowdrift Vanilla Porter®, back by popular demand as our Winter standalone. A fuller-bodied brew with hints of cocoa, coffee and caramel brought out by roasted malts and aged on real vanilla, our Leinenkugel’s® Snowdrift Vanilla Porter® is smooth and creamy, making it perfect for warming up winter.
Drift into winter with Snowdrift Vanilla Porter®, back by popular demand as our Winter standalone. A fuller-bodied brew with hints of cocoa, coffee and caramel brought out by roasted malts and aged on real vanilla, our Leinenkugel’s® Snowdrift Vanilla Porter® is smooth and creamy, making it perfect for warming up winter.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
12oz bottle pours a murky, deep brown with some clumpy, eggshell head. Nose has, well, obviously a whole lot of vanilla, some malt, some chocolate, some pumpernickel bread. Flavor follows, loads of vanilla, molasses, chocolate, bread crust, some cream soda, but mostly lots and lots of vanilla. Full, creamy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2015
at 22:05
7/10
Tried
on 01 Jan 2015
at 13:06
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle pours a clear dark brown with a thin light tan head. Light sweet dark malt aroma. Leather and damp earth with some caramel and wet brown paper. Flavors are a sweet faded tootsie roll. A little coffee at the end, and shot a dozen IBUs or so. Lacking some of the needed bite at the end. A bit disappointing, but I suppose easy drinking fof folks that think they like "dark beers"
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2014
at 01:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours with a mahogany to deep ruby red body that supports a thin tan head. The aroma offers up sweetness in the form of malts and vague vanilla as well as some earthy chocolate. The taste starts with malts and chocolate and then mild roasted malts and sweet malts. It gets a tad roastier to midway amid plenty of thin bodied sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2014
at 08:52
8/10
Tried
on 18 Dec 2014
at 20:09
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours from a bottle a dark, nearly opaque reddish-brown. Caramel, oak, & vanilla dominate the aroma and flavor, but a little overly sweet. An okay porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2014
at 21:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Mild pecan nose. Clear ruby black, medium tan, good lace. Vanilla dominant, kibble underneath. Doughy finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Mild residual sweetness that isn’t too off-putting. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2014
at 16:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Dark Opaque Brown With Shades of Red, Nice Big Head, Light Lacing. Toasted Aroma with Hint Cocoa. Toasted, Vanilla, Coffee, Chocolate. Rather Thin, More Strange Bitter Than Sweetness. Drinkable. While it is not my favorite, It is Decent Enough. OK.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2014
at 21:24
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a dark hazy brown color with dark orange/copper tints along the side of the glass.
The smell had a decent bready to roasty coffee notes with a light smoke and vanilla.
The taste was lightly sweet and semi-roasty with a light vanilla rolling underneath here and there.
On the palate, this sat about a light on the body with a semi-sessionable quality to it. The carbonation was actually fairly smooth with the same finish
Overall, this was just okay because the flavorings in the aroma and taste didn’t really seem to show a real depth. Almost as if it was just thrown in and not necessarily blended that well. If anything, I do like the idea that they put out with this one.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a dark hazy brown color with dark orange/copper tints along the side of the glass.
The smell had a decent bready to roasty coffee notes with a light smoke and vanilla.
The taste was lightly sweet and semi-roasty with a light vanilla rolling underneath here and there.
On the palate, this sat about a light on the body with a semi-sessionable quality to it. The carbonation was actually fairly smooth with the same finish
Overall, this was just okay because the flavorings in the aroma and taste didn’t really seem to show a real depth. Almost as if it was just thrown in and not necessarily blended that well. If anything, I do like the idea that they put out with this one.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2014
at 14:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thanks to José Pérez. Dark brown color, almost black with a minimal and quickly diminishig off-white head. Aroma has notes of licorice, some coffee, and light roasted malts. Flavor is slightly sweet at the beginning, roasted notes with licorice and coffee beans notes, some ashes in the final with a light bitterness.
Tried
on 23 May 2014
at 17:02