Generation Porter
Sprecher Brewing Company in Glendale, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.72
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
Notes from 5/31/2009. One liter bottle purchased for way too much money up in Boston about a year ago. Decided to maybe open it alongside some birthday cake, but the initial taste was disappointing, so I flipped it shut for later. I eventually lurched back to my desk & finished it off once everyone left for the night. Never leave witnesses. Pours out black & brown, with minimal cocoa-colored head, & not much to look at besides the intimidating bottle it came from. Smell was of cocoa powder, spent grease, & a light hint of spoiled fruit. Uh oh. Taste was better, with a sure tartness & raspberry/tomato-ish sweetness running through it. The porter aspects of it were very sub-standard though. Mildly roasted malt, slight coffee, something like creamer(but a little off-putting with the sour fruit flavor), very very little chocolate, & with just a small tickle on the top of my tongue, I'm not sure if there's anything left from the hops at all. It might just be the carbonation. Actually, the weakest point here is that the beer has absolutely no body to it. It feels almost like a dry stout that someone poured some cocktail mix into. Carbonation is a little too soft too, just a little tingle. Alcohol is negligible. I'm just angry with myself for buying the bottle(I think it was like $14.xx). That's an extra case of Yuengling I missed out on right there! I force myself to drink down the bottle as punishment(Does the beer get another half point here because it wasn't really that difficult to do?).
Drake (22934) reviewed Generation Porter from Sprecher Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
12 ounce bottle from the brewery. Dark brown, thin creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of roast, chocolate, dark fruits. The taste is roast, chocolate, cherry. Thin, lingering tartness. A bit of smoke peaks out at the end. Odd. Not wonderful.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Molasses and chocolate aroma. Dark brown with small head. Sweet raspberry, dark chocolate malt, and hay flavor. Fruity and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Purchased at Breeze-Thru in Milwaukee, WI; consumed on a Monday night after a terrible Bears NFC Championship loss. This is OK, kinda weird with the raspberries. Appearance is a very very dark brown with a thin off white head. Aroma of chocolate, toffee, cocoa, and a hint of raspberries. Taste of raspberries and chocolate, somewhat smooth, definitely decadent. It’s good but wouldn’t go out of my way to enjoy again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Deep black opaque pour that produces a quickly falling tan head. Rich roast malt aroma. Slight roast malt bitterness in the flavor that’s accompanied by a slight sourness that detracts a bit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Beer Geek. Pours opaque brown/black. Half-finger tan head that left quickly. Aroma of ancient raspberries. Medium body with frothy carbonation. Flavor is very raspberry, accompanied by chocolate. As time goes by, it actually tastes much like a raspberry chocolate truffle - though bitter, not sweet. Finishes in a good way that I can’t begin to describe. Sort of vinous, a bit sour. Ok. I can begin. Wow, if this is 4 years old. Or if it isn’t! Buy one before they go away.
omhper (44752) reviewed Generation Porter from Sprecher Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled at Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Black, small beige head. Lightly roasty. Thecocoa and raspberry shows up early. Medium bodied withclean, rounded mouthfeel. Juicy raspberry meets coffee. Dry, slightly citric notes of berries. Fairly low bitterness. A well balanced yet unusual beer staying wel outside of the mainstream (no bourbon barel in sight here!). After the initial confusion I start to really like this!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500ml 20th anniversary bottle. Opaque brown-black color. Minimized off-white head. Artificial raspberry aroma. The extract raspberry really dominates the flavor, which I don’t find to be so unforgivable. Not really much else to mention, raspberry with a light choco-malt balance. Refreshing palate cleanser, I can dig it.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Generation Porter from Sprecher Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pitch black coloured body, 100% opaque with a nice light brown head that tops the beer perfectly. Aroma of an amazing combination of raspberries, chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong raspberry flavour with a good amount of dark chocolate and a full coffee finish. Aftertaste shows some potent coffee bitterness with a good chocolate aftertaste with the small tint of raspberries on the palate. Overall, an amazing beer - one of the best i’ve had in this style. I’d reccomend this to anyone as long as they can find it! I sampled this pint-sized bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 04-February-2006 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
16oz bottle; Nose of chocolate and light berries; Hazy dark brwon with a medium glass-lacing tan head; flavor has lots of tart raspberries and chocolate. Kind of a chocolate/raspberry fruit/herb (cocoa) beer!