Boxcar Porter
Tighthead Brewing Company in Mundelein, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
7.25
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8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
16 oz can from my Beerbox subscription. Aroma is roasty, cocoa, nuts, dark bread, vanilla. Taste is sweet and roasty with some bitterness in the background. Carbonation is a bit soft. More than solid overall.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jun 2025
at 23:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a near black with a small tan head. Aroma is a pretty decent char roasted malt. Flavor is a super dry chalky roast malt with no sweetness to be found. Just a decent, average straight forward porter. My can says this is 5.6% abv.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jun 2020
at 02:31
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Shaker at Lockdown. The beer looks like a float with its head popping out the glass. Brown head with a super brown almost black body. Has a sticky-icky lacing. Aroma is bitter black malt, roast, earth, and light coffee. Its very well attenuated. Flavor is the same with a very well fermented beer with few leftover sugars and most of the flavors come off the bitter, earthy malts. Finish is very light with essence of earth and a bark-light bitterness. An awesome bitter brown ale, no chocolate from my POV.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2013
at 09:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled from the tap at the Mundelin beer fest. Pours black with brown head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has some coffee with a good amount of roasted malts and just a hint of sweet dark grains. Flavor has a nice dry roasted malt note with some backing coffee with a bit of dark chocolate that mellows in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jun 2012
at 09:55