Draft at brewery. Black beer worth a tan head. This may very well be the last Spinaker Bay beer I ever drink. When I moved to Seattle this was the closets brewery to my house. However, soon a closer very opened up and this place still required a drive. Plus, they don’t allow dogs and the beer was never that exciting. Alas, I’m moving soon and this may be my lady hurrah. This beer, well it’s not bad. Though nothing about it makes me want to drink it again. Sort of describes the brewery.

Draft 10 Oz pour at Hop and Hound as part of my "taking beer out of hiatus" series. Just over a year on this one. Pours damn near black with a foam ran head. Big roasted aroma here. Flavor is dark roasted malts, and forest hops. Piney. Toasty with a hop bitter finish. I feel like this is a true, full on example of what the style is supposed to be, and I feel like they nailed it. Well done.

On tap at Spinnaker Bay, pours a deep dark brown with an amber tinge and a small tan head. Aroma is full of roasted malt upfront and piney hops underneath. Flavour is just like the robust porter, with slight more hops. Well-balanced and finishes nicely bitter. Good stuff.

Draft - Roast and pine notes. Deep brown with a brown head. Lots of roast with a ton of pine and bitterness in the finish. Big on both ends, but bitterness is a bit too much.