Bottle. Dark brown with a medium,quickly disappearing head. This beer was surprisingly good. A lot better then I expected. Aroma and taste had notes of chocolate and coffee. Nice beer.

Dark brown. Thin head. Chocolatey-fudgey nose. sweeter, fudgier example, lots of chocolate, just barely enough bitterness, and an otherwise simple porter palate.

ok, this is their most popular porter. Very nice porter presentation from a bottle. Decent mild mannered porter taste bud impact, roasty-ness and all. Slight bitter charcoal bite but you’d never know it’s a sixer. Yes, not bad overall, good example of a milder enjoyable porter with kick

Deep dark brown coloured body with a decent, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of milk, light roasted malt, some hay, grass and a decent amount of caramel - not too great in the nose though. Medium-bodied; Assertive nutty flavours with some good toasted malt flavours and a little bit of caramel and sweetness at the tail end. Aftertaste shows a good balance of lactose and some stronger malt, but nothing too complex nor assertive. Overall, I’m not sure how this got such great ratings, it’s a decent porter at best and showing a bit too much lactose and not enough of any real flavours and complexity to make it a good beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Giant Food in Arlington (South Glebe), Virginia on 14-February-2015 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington on 25-May-2015; Best By Date on Bottle at 07-June-2015

On tap at Stadium Brewing brewpub in California: 16oz pour on 18th May 2015. Dark brown/black body, tanned topping. Dark chocolate and coffee esters in the nose, the flavour also on the same lines. Full bodied and fairly smooth in nature, creamy for a Porter. More than decent.

From a 12 oz bottle at the Howard Theatre in DC. Pours black with a tan head. Toasty roast nose. Flavors of tobacco and leather with some sweet malt notes.

Pours dark brown color with tan head. Roasted malt and chocolate aromas. Burnt malt flavor with some milk chocolate. Bitter and ashy. Medium body with average carbonation.

Bottle. Dark brown beer with a dark tan head. Roast and nutty aroma with light coffee. Caramel and roast flavor with nuttiness and coffee. Medium bodied. Roast and light coffee lingers with light caramel.

Bottle - pours mostly black with a soapy lace - nose is a pleasant mix of cocoa, coffee, sweet cream, maple, char - perhaps a little too sweet in the nose, but nice - soft carbonation - flavor is moderately sweet, with a slightly sharp bitterness through the middle balancing that out crudely - chocolate, slight berry-ish twanginess - moderate roasty bitterness on the tail end - lacks the depth of better examples, but it’s pretty good.