7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is strong beany coffee with roast, cocoa powder, espresso, mocha, milk chocolate. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a medium creamy body. Such a nice coffee aroma. The body of Coffee Porters/Stouts like this one seems too light for my taste (I want that chewy mouthfeel), but the creaminess compensates.

8

smooth as silk.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours dark brown with a light tan creamy head. Something of a Guinness pour. Mild coffee aroma. Super smooth body. Flavor is pretty nice coffee, with burnt malt and decent chocolate. Some sort of fruit notes. Seems towards dry. Coffee/malt bitter. Pretty nice!

7

Hard pouring!!!

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Best by 08-02-2020.

Pours black but not quite pitch black, ample head of off white foam, lacing is fine.

Smells of coffee, no, coffee grounds, very bitter, some dark chocolate, pretty intense

Taste is coffee, more like coffee than coffee grounds as it does taste as bitter as the smell. Dark chocolate, toffee, nice balance.

Smooth creamy mouthfeel.

I like. Left Hand has a way with Nitro.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Can/Fest. A- Coffee. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, beige head. T- Coffee, watery. P- Medium body, thin texture, flat carbonation, malty finish. O- This is a beer that could be good if it wasn't served with nitro. Okay but super watery and bland.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head that shows the nitrogen (smooth head with no movement at all). Naturally, the aroma is very well muted given the nitrogen with some vanilla, lactose, coffee and roasted malt noticeable, but little else, including earth and a dose of raisins, but the nitrogen takes away the scents dramatically. Medium-bodied; Smooth profile with the nitrogen taking shape and the lactose and cream coming out first with a dose of roasted malt, earth, mushrooms, hay, nuts and coffee towards the end along with a touch of caramelised sugars and a dose of vanilla towards the end that shows some good flavours if not a bit muted from the nitrogen here. Aftertaste shows the nuts, earth, raisins, figs, caramelised sugars, lactose, vanilla and especially the coffee notes (although more from a cracked bean instead of a brewed variety or even ground) and ending with a subdued cream and earthiness at the very end. Overall, a decent and flavourful beer, especially for the carbonation component (nitrogen) and the canned variety - but the coffee flavours were noticeable and enjoyable, if not too exciting throughout. I sampled this 13,65 ounce can (smaller given the nitrogen pack in the aluminum) purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 15-January-2019 for US$2,99 sampled at home in Washington on 02-April-2019.

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Coffee and malt aroma with some cocoa. Malt, chocolate and coffee taste in a full body. Long full finish.

7.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Good, but not strong enough of a porter to stand up to the taste-dulling nitrogenation. Coffee notes are prominent--comes across as more of a nitro coffee than a nitro porter--with mild cocoa and roast with a slight green pepper bite in the finish. Very easy to drink, but on the mild side; can't help but think proper carbonation would suit this pint much better.