Planet Porter
Boulder Beer Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.27
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Planet Porter is a big beer for everyone. Don't be afraid of the dark; this beer is very drinkable and remarkably smooth, brewed for a malty, coffee-like flavor.
A once almost extinct style of ale, Boulder Brewing helped revive the category and this is now one of the oldest American porters.
A once almost extinct style of ale, Boulder Brewing helped revive the category and this is now one of the oldest American porters.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours mahogany-tinged black into a shaker. Mocha head quickly recedes leaving scant sheets. Mild carob aromas. Smooth and light with mild chocolate and smoke and an abrupt, watery finish.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Dec 2009
at 17:12
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Almost black. Tan quickly descending head. Chocolate and bakery type smell. Semisweet chocolate taste along with a little bit of bitterness. The finish goes up on the bitterness a little bit. Creamy texture. Roasted malts predominate.
Tried
on 28 May 2009
at 16:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Dark brown coloured body with ruby highlights and a thin brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and nice turbinado (raw) sugar. Full to Medium-bodied; Strong malt flavour up front with some spice and coffee tastes soon following. No chocolate tastes at all - the aftertaste is very clean...no bitterness to speak of. Overall, an all right but weak porter. Nice to try even though it was from Colorado via New York to Washington. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 25-March-2006.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2009
at 23:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle. Pours a chocolate brown color with a 2-finger head. Moderate head retention and very nice lacing. Aroma of roasted malts with some subtle chocolate notes. Slightly bitter and slightly metallic roasted malt notes in the taste. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2008
at 11:57
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Hazy brown. Some chocolate and coffee aroma with a little bit of caramel. The flavour mixes cheap coffee, diacteyl, and vague nuts. The body is light and the mouthfeel is creamy, but that butter has got to go.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2008
at 10:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle from Supermarket Liquors, Cheyenne, WY; Nose of vanilla, caramel, and toasted nutty chocolate; Hazy dark brown with a medium tan head; flavor has coffee, chocolate, minor bitterness; finish is vanilla and very mild bitterness. Not a 3.0 beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2008
at 22:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draft at the brewpub. A pitch black beer with a thin borwn head. The aroma is sweet with notes of roasted malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt as well as strong notes of chocolate and light notes of alcohol that burns slightly in the throat, which surprises me at 5.5% ABV.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2008
at 14:54
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Aromas of chocolate and roasted dark malt. Very dark brown color with a decent beige head. Near medium body with smooth, creamy carbonation. Dark roasted malt, a touch of coffee, a hint of sour. Dry, smooth, and just bitter enough. Leaves a bit of tingle behind.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2008
at 23:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours deep dark amber with nice mocha head. The aroma brings forth burnt malts, roasted malts, licorice and faint caramel. The taste begins smooth and neutral for a moment or two before burnt malts break things up. About midway the sweets enter with chocolate malts mixed with caramel and licorice. The beer ends roasty with lingering burnt malts. Nice Porter.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2007
at 21:24
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Planet porter, pretty catchy name. Must be a planet on a boulder. 12 oz brown bottle from 3 sons in Wexford, cost was $2. Smooth chocolaty aroma, the kind of smell when you mix powdered Nestle Quick into milk. Taste is a little more Baltic than that. The aroma just lures you in, the taste is more bitter and burnt roasty. Tastes like a higher alky beer than what is listed here. Dark nearly opaque brown and a darker alabaster head. Head eventually fades to a girdle on the inside of the glass. Not quite as enjoyable as Yuengling’s Black & Tan. Tho a medium length finish, it at first comes on with some tongue back malty bitterness that is kinda hard to ignore.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2007
at 12:18