Breakfast Pub Porter
Hay Camp Brewing Company in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.08
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
32oz crowler pours a muddy brown with a ring of grey head. Nose has plenty of malt, toast, Folgers, some marzipan. Flavor has some brown sugar, malt, sweetened coffee, chewy, some pumpernickel. Medium bodied and dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Crowler at DC early November beer tasting. Poured a dark cola color with a small off-white head. Chocolate, coffee. Creamy. Pleasant. Some greenness to it. Pleasant stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From a crowler. Pours a clear cola with a tan head. Aromas of coffee. Flavors are moderately bitter roast coffee. Smooth and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours dark brown. Coffee, earthy, fruity, pineapple, blackberry, milk chocolate. Medium body. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, very fast-dying just barely tan head. Aroma of toasted malt, light caramelised sugars, some mellow oatmeal and grain and more of a dry maltiness with some earth and very little else. Medium-bodied; Relatively strong toasted malt and hazlenut flavours show through with some light spices, a bit of earthiness and very little else - perhaps some light grain and bready flavours. Aftertaste shows some more of the deeper robust caramelised sugar sweetness, along with some very mild nutty flavours and a dash of bread, but the alcohol does creep through, as does the slight thinness of the body, even light for being a porter. Overall, a decent enough porter, but shows almost more like a brown ale, as it's a bit thin on the edges, lacking in pungent malt complexities and showing a very simplistic finish, especially compared to the style. Somehow, still nice enoough to sample, as one of the last beers I sampled here on my first ever visit to South Dakota, sampled this pint on draught at Thirsty's in Rapid City, South Dakota on 01-July-2020 for US$5,00.