Midnight Vorlauf Coffee Porter
Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.84
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 3/22/2017. Pours slightly hazy very dark brown color with a 2 finger dense and rocky khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big nutty medium roast coffee, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted dark bread; with lighter notes of smoke, char, vanilla, herbal, floral, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big nutty medium roast coffee, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted dark bread; with lighter notes of smoke, char, vanilla, herbal, floral, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate roast/char and herbal/spicy hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of nutty coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toasted dark bread, smoke, char, herbal, floral, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no acrid/astringent roast or hop flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from hop/char bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6.5%. Overall this is a great American porter style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. Vibrant coffee complexity in great balanced with the base porter. Spot on for the style; not overly roasty, nice hop presence without overdoing it. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2017
at 19:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
From a bottle pour is big and black with a tan nearly choco-moose head. Smell is, what else? Coffee. Yes, a good example of a coffee based porter. Me? I like it a little less baltic. Whew, I think I’m waken’ up ’er sumthin. Alky kick for a depressant and then caffeine blow-by for an upper? What else could you ask fer? Not really in yer face but it does continue to assert itself like a mate trying to attract yer intrist. Good job MG!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2017
at 14:52
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled on draft at the brewpub this beer poured a black color with a medium sized foamy tan head that left decent lacing. The aroma was coffee and roasty malts. The flavor was brewed coffee, roasty malt, and touches of smoke and vanilla. Medium length finish. Medium body. meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Mar 2017
at 22:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at Kraft House No. 5. Dark brown color with a medium beige head that diminishes steadily to a film. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted coffee, malt and chocolate. Medium body with a roasty coffee character, and notes of chocolate and malt in the background. The finish is roasty with a lingering coffee aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2017
at 19:43