Proud Lake Porter
Drafting Table Brewing Company in Wixom, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Smooth drinking porter with roasted notes that complement the earthy, oak, and chocolate flavors. Named after a local recreational area, Proud Lake Porter reminds us to escape to a quieter place and enjoy the natural world around us.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Tried
from Can
from
Horrocks Farm Market
on 29 Oct 2025
at 00:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at DT. Pours a dark brown to black with a small beige head that dissipates. Dark chocolate and malt aromas. Palate is similar, but silky smooth. Drying finish but balanced.
Tried
from Draft
at
Drafting Table Brewing Company
on 14 Aug 2021
at 03:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
16 oz can from the brewery. Pours a deep brown with a light tan head. Roasty coffee aroma, creamy with molasses. Flavor has roasty malts, coffeee, dark cocoa. This is a well-done porter.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2020
at 04:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 ounce prowler into pint glass, filled on 8/30/2019. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a small fairly dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of molasses, licorice, raisin, fig, date, smoke, char, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with big strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of molasses, licorice, raisin, fig, date, smoke, char, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, wood, grassy, peppery, roast, charred bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark bread/crust, molasses, licorice, dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with an awesome roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no cloying/acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Light-medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 6%. Overall this is an excellent English porter. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/charred/drying finish; great soft feel. Awesomely rich well rounded English malt complexity; solid earthy hops and restrained fruity yeast. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive spot on style example as expected.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2019
at 01:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours black with a light brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has earthy dark grains, light roast and a bit of chocolate. Flavor has earthy dark grains and chocolate with some roast underlying.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Dec 2018
at 23:59