Chocolate Pistachio Porter
Infusion Brewing Company in Omaha, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.98
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 12/12/2017. Pours slightly hazy very dark brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky light khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, pistachio nuttiness, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, cream, and toasted brown bread; with light notes of coffee, molasses, dark fruit, herbal, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. A bit too fruity/yeasty in the aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, pistachio, cocoa, lactose, fruity yeast and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of milk chocolate, cocoa, pistachio nuttiness, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, cream, and toasted brown bread; with light notes of coffee, molasses, dark fruit, herbal, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal/roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, pistachio nuttiness, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, cream, toasted brown bread, light coffee/molasses, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, pistachio, cocoa, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, and slightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 6.8%. Overall this is a very good flavored English porter. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, pistachio, cocoa, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the minimal bitter finish. Not as clean on the yeast as I expected; but nicely rich, with well balanced complexity from English malts, pistachio, lactose, and cocoa. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at the Benson location. Thin tan head on a pitch black liquid. Aroma is really something else; pistachio is big, light chocolate, and milk sugar. The flavor is really cool!
I didn’t think they could pull this off but... The Brewer did. Exactly a fudge brownie batter backbone with a good amount of the nut. Even a hint of pistachio shells. The body is pretty good as well. And of course the Porter ends on a sweet sugar hint. Really neat brew!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft/Fest. A- Chocolate, frosting, cake. A- Brown color, dark liquid, beige head. T- Chocolate, cake. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, smooth finish. O- Tasted like a liquid chocolate cake. The pistachio is undetectable but otherwise good.