Leather Jacket
Edmund's Oast Brewing Company in Charleston, South Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
7.11
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from a can dated 10/02/25 into an english pint glass
Pours deep cola brown bordering black with two fingers of tight tan head that settles leaving a good amount of sticky lacing.
Aroma of black coffee, sweet caramel, dark chocolate, some dark roasty malt and a bit of earthy hops
Taste follows the aroma with sweet caramel moving quickly into roasty black coffee and bitter dark chocolate leaning into some earthiness at the end.
Medium body with a bit of assertive carbonation, has a drying kind of bitter finish that plays well with the flavors leaving you ready to take another drink.
Overall a bit on the roasty, dry and bitter side but it's well crafted and complex enough that I'd come back again. Especially in the cooler months when you reach for a "leather jacket"
Pours deep cola brown bordering black with two fingers of tight tan head that settles leaving a good amount of sticky lacing.
Aroma of black coffee, sweet caramel, dark chocolate, some dark roasty malt and a bit of earthy hops
Taste follows the aroma with sweet caramel moving quickly into roasty black coffee and bitter dark chocolate leaning into some earthiness at the end.
Medium body with a bit of assertive carbonation, has a drying kind of bitter finish that plays well with the flavors leaving you ready to take another drink.
Overall a bit on the roasty, dry and bitter side but it's well crafted and complex enough that I'd come back again. Especially in the cooler months when you reach for a "leather jacket"
Tried
from Can
from
Alkies Brews and More
on 23 Mar 2026
at 23:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: dark brown close to black in color with a two finger khaki foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: coffee roastiness, some coffee sweetness, cocoa powder and/or baker's chocolate, roasted malts
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas together pretty roasty, light toasted notes; finishes pretty roasty and dry
Texture: light to medium bodied, some sessionability, pretty dry along the tongue, light smoothness
Overall: a pretty dry porter but that didn't bother me because I still think I could come back to this.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: dark brown close to black in color with a two finger khaki foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: coffee roastiness, some coffee sweetness, cocoa powder and/or baker's chocolate, roasted malts
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas together pretty roasty, light toasted notes; finishes pretty roasty and dry
Texture: light to medium bodied, some sessionability, pretty dry along the tongue, light smoothness
Overall: a pretty dry porter but that didn't bother me because I still think I could come back to this.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2026
at 13:04
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Refrigerated pint can poured into a glass. Black with small beige head. Aroma is cocoa, medium body, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is cocoa, and dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Nov 2025
at 01:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pitch black colour with small beige head.Aroma of chocolate and coffee nice roasted and toasted mouth feels hint of cocoa mild and well balanced finish.
Tried
from Can
from
Kihoskh
on 15 Apr 2025
at 08:09
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown almost black with a two-finger, tan head. Aroma is dark roasted grains and coffee. Taste is also dark roasted grains and coffee.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2025
at 05:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
S: nuts - caramelised sugars - brewed coffee A: dark brown body - thin oily brown head T: pungent malts - licorice - soft toffee P: german sourdough bread - lightly smoked malts - bitter end O: complex - rustic yeasts - good balance & sugars 16 ounce can - Trader Joe's (grocery): Charleston (Mount Pleasant), South Carolina - 17-February-2024 - US$3,00 - best by: 08-December-2024 (whoops!) - sampled: 12-January-2025
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2025
at 08:45
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2024
at 18:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
16 oz can from the local Publix, Greenville. Dark brown appearance with a thin tan head. Aroma is roast and weak day old coffee. Flavor follows. Overall, about what you expect for the style. Average.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Sep 2024
at 22:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can ordered from Tap Door on-line. Aroma combines sweet chocolate and coffee with some berry sharpness. Stygian. Cola tint. Foamy light beige head thins our. Berries lead the way. Tangy. Followed by coffee, chocolate and liquorice. Blackcurrant & liquorice sweets... develops a sweet streak. Light-medium bodied. Slick verging on creamy. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Big berryy Porter. Yum.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2024
at 20:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Third beer in my American tasting session (on my own), 26th April 2024 at home. US Pint can from The Beers of America and poured (twice) into my lovely thistle shaped Gordon Finest Gold glass. Almost black bodied, great foaming tanned head, looked spectacular in the thistle shaped glass actually. Singed, over roasted, burnt toasted maltiness in the initial sips. Malty aroma with dark chocolate and coffee esters, hints of sweaty ladies bicycle seats (or the beers name might have led me to think that). Anyway I quite enjoyed this malt forward Porter (aren't all Porters malt forward?).
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2024
at 19:29