Early Bender
Ten Bends Beer in Hyde Park, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
6.70
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Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Early Bender from Ten Bends Beer 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Draught at the brewery, 3/23/18.
Clear, dark auburn-to-mahogany. Light tan head fades quickly to nothing.
Smells acidic and grainy with lactic-like sourness, spent grain and strongly acidic coffee. Beany chocolate and just way too much dark malt character throughout with no relief from base malt sweetness.
Thin, acidic, bordering sour, in the mouth with a beany, old, stale, crusty coffee and roasted barley character. Thin as all hell, with almost zero texture to speak of and no base malt structure at all. Really quite bad.
CLW (16859) reviewed Early Bender from Ten Bends Beer 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
4 oz. draft at Ten Bends. Medium brown in color. Aroma is mild coffee bean, a note of roast. Body is about average for a porter. (Leans on the thin side) Coffee lingers mildly after the sip. Good
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Early Bender from Ten Bends Beer 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the Vermont NanoFest 2017, pours a watery, deep brown with some filmy, white head. Nose is nice and inviting, coffee, chocolate, malt, a touch of smoke. Flavor follows, the coffee and malt go well together, just small hints of earth and baker’s chocolate. Simple, dry on the finish. Nicely done though and very very drinkable.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Early Bender from Ten Bends Beer 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a dark brown close to black sort of color with a fair finger’s worth of level head. Sly lace.
The aroma blends some roasted coffee tones, sly milk chocolate, a light dark chocolate and then wraps in a quaint bit of smoke ever so subtly at the end.
The flavor leans just a touch towards the roasty side but definitely wants to bring in the sweetness from the chocolate, both milk and dark. Lenient sweet to puffy roasted edged aftertaste and ends up sliding into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionably smooth yet roasty sort of feel along my tongue. Good carbonation. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, nicely done porter that I wouldn’t mind having again. Really hoping more reviewers show up for this little brewery in Hyde Park.