Stumptown Porter
Lucky Labrador Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.69
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, hint of chocolate. Flavour is moderate sweet with a nice roasty bitter finish. A bit on the thin side, but tasty and easily drinkable.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
My first Lucky Labrador beer, gaining my sympathy for the label alone since I love both animals and porters, but what a disappointment when I opened the bomber: beer spouted out of the bottle neck, so I quickly had to grab my tasting glass in order to catch as much of it as possible - and frankly, it is the first time I experience violent gushing from an American porter... Needless to say, the head was towering high, coarse and very irregularly shaped, inflating in a few minutes to a frothy, rocky, light beige layer of foam, leaving thick patches of lacing. The beer itself had a very dark but translucent burgundy colour with ruby hue, lightly hazy in appearance - and while I was observing this, a ’tube’ of foam of a few inches long was still creeping out of the bottle and every time I tried to pour more beer into my glass, I had to cope with an enormous amount of head formation. Aroma of overripe figs, unsugared apple sauce, blackberries, quite a lot of ’haemoglobin’ iron, caramel, FFF (freshly fermented farmland), coffee grounds, soggy or even somewhat mouldy brown bread, old dusty milk chocolate bars, dried nettles, fermenting grass, liquorish, brown sugar, green banana, autumn leaves, cappuccino mix, ginger powder, clove-like phenols. Deep but unmistakable sourishness of blackberries or fermenting fruit mingled with fig and pear sweetness opens the palate, with a softish to medium carbonation, minerals here and there; supple, caramelly and very nutty malt bittersweetness (more bitter than sweet) ensues, rather light, thinnish and dryish with a metallic ’zing’ to it and with the fruity esters and some phenols on top; a tad of coffee grounds-like roasted bitterness appears in the end, aided by a dash of herbal, earthy hops providing a more ’vivid’, spicy bitterness, interfering too much with the malts. Ends dry, toasted and nutty with the herbal, rather dull but bittering hops continuing, juicy, but as expected, off-balance and with misplaced spicy phenols retronasally; the finishing drought is reinforced by the sourish undertone accompanying the palate from beginning to end, and clearly resulting from onsetting infection, which I also hold responsible for the extreme gushing. I was expecting a much cleaner beer considering its ’geozythological’ background, but what I got, was something much more reminiscent of a well-intended but technically flawed ’new Belgian micro brewery’ attempt at porter or even Belgian dubbel, too estery, but most of all, clearly infected. Though the basic flavour profile is acceptable for the style it pretends to be (plain brown porter), the infection clearly decreased the quality enormously - with points off for the unexpected strong gushing as a result. This does not motivate me to purchase more from this brewery, I’m afraid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
650ml bottle. Clear, dark chestnut colour with huge, firm, frothy, long lasting, well lacing, off-white head. Roasty, dark malty aroma, hints of burnt coffee, burnt nuts, a dusty touch, some morel. Taste is roasty dark malty, a nuttily touch, burnt nuts, dark bread, morel, slightly soapy and metallic overtones.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home shared with Thompson and Joes. Opaque dark brown to black color, huge off-white to beige head that lasts forever. Aroma is malts, sweetish, dark fruits. Taste malts, dark fruits, caramel, brown malts, lightly bitter. Decent body, firm fizzy carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
caramelbruin met schuimige kaki kraag. Aroma van chocolade, mout, koffie, geroosterde mouten, graan. Smaken zijn matig zoet, matig bittertje, sterk, redelijk gemout en dan met name de gebrande en de geroosterde mouten. koffie, chocolade maar vooral droog ... erg droog in de mond. wat carameltonen, erg licht edoch wel smaakvol, vanille, zeer lichte rooktoets, medium body, dun met lage co2, afdronk lang droog
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sample at the Molen monthly tasting. thin off white head. A bit pale for a porter, clear burgundy pour. A nice enough porter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Lucky Labrador, pours a dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma is subtle, with a touch of roast and a little cocoa - pretty weak. Flavour brings out moderate cocoa powder and a touch of roast. Really weak stuff though - nothing interesting here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a pure black color with a medium beige head. A sweet mellow roasted malt nose with some coffee. A big milky coffee flavor, light toast, some nutty elements. Smooth.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at Lucky Lab (Hawthorn) - 06/11/12. Very dark mahogony brown vergeing on light black with a thin tan head that retains well. Nose comprises light roat malt, light vegetal tones, touch of liqourice. Taste follow - a little better than a somewhat subdued nose and no traceof the veggy tones. Medium bodied, light spritzy (ie too much for a porter) carbonation with a dry finish. Nowt special.