Winter Humbug'r Ale
Portland Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.62
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Out of the bottle. Faint cola and roast aroma. Slight bread. Pours clear deep brown with garnet highlights and minimal brown head. Taste is cola and light malt with roast in moderate amount. A little spritzy and under attenuated to give a very sweet taste. Roast more pronounced in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Deep dark cola coloured body with a bright ruby glow when held up to the light and a thick, two centimetre tall light brown head. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel, lactic flavours and a touch of earth. Light-bodied; Sharp malty flavour with some nuts and earth in the mix and a deep flavour of metal. Aftertaste shows a little sweetness from toffee, but not much aside from the roasted malt - no spices or complexity. Overall, a decent beer, if that - nothing special, nothing interesting and not necessary to buy. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from The Wine Corner in Paia, Maui, Hawaii on 02-March-2012 for US$1.99 sampled on the opposite end of the country at home in Washington on 11-April-2012.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cola color,small lasting tan head.Nose of light roast,dark fruits.Sweet start,plums/dates in mid,light roastiness. Medium lasting hop finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle picked up at the state store
Appearance: Pours a clear dark brown with a small beige head and light spotty lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, roasted coffee and chocolate
Taste: Toasted malts, roasted coffee, grainy, sweet caramel with a light bitterness in the finish
A nice, easy drinking porter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle thanks to Dallas. Pours black with tan head. Nose/taste of winter spices, cocoa powder and heavily burned black malt. Finishes dry with lots of burnt black malt. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle into Trappist glass (couldn’t find proper glassware). Aroma is roasted malt, coffee. Pours brownish-black with little head and average lacing. Taste is sweet, then bitter. Carbonation is medium. A little watery. A very tasty porter, but nothing outstanding.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle pours out a dark brown topped with a good looking head. Aroma is of sweet chocolate, light hops, and even a little spice. Taste is more of the chocolate, a little dark bitter not so much milk chocolate. The light spice pops up once again along with a few hop notes. Not to bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Very dark brown pour with a finger of creamy tan head. Nice little bits of lacing. Strong aroma is sweet, chocolate filled, roasty, and some faint espresso/mocha. The flavor is roast forward with light bittersweetness and dark chocolate. Again, light hints of espresso. Lacks what some would consider to be ’intense’ flavors, but one of MacTarnahan’s better brews and overall quite enjoyable. I see I’m against the grain on this one, but really a 3.7 was how it came out and 3.8-3.9 isn’t really out of the question...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from John’s Marketplace. Pours very dark brown with a frothy tan head. Smells of rich darkly roasted malt with possible xmas spice. Medium body with mild carbonation. Dark, lightly burnt malt flavor. Spice seems absent. Light bitter. Seems to be going coffee towards the finish. Not a lot of hop, but it’s pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Poured brown with medium lasting tan head. Medium aroma of malt and toast. Medium malty flavour, medium body, a little chocolate, a lottle espresso. A light malt finish with the tiniest bit of hop. Slightly more than common.