Nosedive Robust Vanilla Porter
The Shed Brewery in Middlebury, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.45
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a deep dark brown, almost black, from a bottle. Nose of vanilla and coffee, like a coffee syrup. Flavor rather sweet, offset by some bitter roasted malt notes, almost burnt. A little unbalanced with sweetness, and a little too much on the vanilla side of things covering up the malts. Okay beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown color with slight ruby hues along the sides. The head was about a finger’s worth of white to off white foaminess quickly dissipating. Lacing was barely there.
The smell starts off with robust coffee beans delivering on sweet rich dark and milk chocolate. Vanilla enters in as it warms.
The taste was moderately sweet with a delicate roastiness about it. The aftertaste is sweet milk chocolate leading into a wet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light allowing a really nice smooth sweet stickiness running all over my tongue.
Overall, as an English Porter this one works despite not having the \"dark fruits\" element to it. I’d still have it again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks Grant for picking this up. It’s a bomber..around $5. Pours a dark black with some translucent edges. small head. nose is roasted marshmallows, almonds and vanilla. Nice middle creamy mouthfeel. vanilla up front and with a long lingering vanilla finish. nice roasty coffee beans. it’s pretty darn good and impressive given the ABV.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at the brewery, 2/7/14
Actually ordered this, had a few sips and fortunately, my friend traded me his Alta Gracia Coffee Porter for my pint of this.
Jet black, quite still looking, with a beige head that recedes too quickly.
Lots of vanilla in the nose, with some dusty cocoa, milk chocolate and a hint of roast. Medium to medium-low strength of aroma.
Soft, supple texture is velvety, sure, but watery on the end and the flavor profile goes from sweet vanilla to very, very light roast and back to sweet vanilla. A touch of cocoa, maybe a hint of dryness from the roast but by and large it just tastes like taking a sip of sweet vanilla-flavored chocolate milk. Needs way more carbonation and dryness. It’s certainly not cloyingly sweet or syrupy, just intensely monotonous and very lacking in character.