Imperial Porter
Thomas Hooker Brewing Company in Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.13
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle courtesy of Adam of Juba, than you your highness! Deep maroon brown color, brown head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma has burnt espresso, figs, raisins, coffee. Taste is rich, roasty chocolate and dark fruity coffee. Delicious.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark chocolate with snappy finish. Comes together ok, finishes well. Good roasty carbon and light bitter finish. Some mocha. Bottle at Epic Sour Tasting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at DC Annual Epic Sour Tasting. Dark brownish black with light tan head. Aromas of caramel, toffee, dark fruit, brown sugar. Tastes of caramel, dark chocolate, toffee. Medium body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home in Salisbury, CT - don’t remember where I got this. I think it must be at least a year old. Pours dark brown with a creamy tan head. The aroma has aged fruits, chocolate, some wood, sherry, grapes, currants. Medium to big sweet flavor with a bit of roast, subtle bitter char, sugary chocolate, dried dark fruits, faintly tangy berries. Medium to full. Odidd with average carbonation. Sweet finish, somewhat sticky, with more lightly bitter charred malts, sugary chocolate, dark fruits, touches of molasses, mellow alcohol kick. Interesting stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
From a bottle. Volatile dark chocolate aroma. Big black pour seems viscous. First taste is impressively strong and bitter and wants to knock your socks off. Thick mouth coating dull imperial stout effects. Burntwood and almost like tastting lye. Quite an insult to the porter style, wew. Yes, over the top and downthe side. I guess if there is such a style as impy porter, whcih is not really impy stout, this may be it. Overall beer experience is just plain rude nastiness. Mouth coating old 60w shovel head oil in my mouth.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dégustée au Mondial de la Bière de Montréal 2012. De couleur noire-brune et quasi-opaque. Nez de grains de malt rôti voire même aux notes brûlées, moyen de chocolat noir, léger de pain grillé avec des notes de houblon herbeux ainsi que quelques traces de chocolat au lait (faibles notes lactiques) et de café. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen ainsi qu’une texture légèrement crémeuse. Faibles traces de chocolat au lait avec des petites notes de caramel terreux lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût de malt assez rôti et aux petites notes brûlées ainsi qu’un léger-moyen goût de chocolat noir et de petites traces de pain grillé puis en finale l’on retrouve une légère amertume de houblon herbeux ainsi que des notes de café et d’alcool réchauffant très doux. Post-goût long et aux notes sèches, moyennement amer de rôti, léger de chocolat et avec des notes d’alcool très doux, de houblon ainsi que quelques traces de café.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black-brown color with a large creamy brown head that lingered and left great lacing. The aroma was fairly strong toasty malts, chocolate and marshmallow. The flavor was toasty and roasty with notes of vanilla, chocolate, marshmallow, coffee and light fruity hops. Long bitter finish. Moderately full bodied and creamy. Interesting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
12 oz bottle. Pours a dark brown with a small off white head leaving sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is vanilla and oak. Medium mouthfeel with syrupy malt and chocolate and nice sugary finish. A very impressive imperial porter from Thomas Hooker.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 10/24/11
Aroma: A malty nose with some roasted and burnt malts, and drops of chocolate and coffee
Appearance: This one pours a dark brown color with a small light brown head and mid heavy lace
Flavor: The taste is similar to the nose, malty and roast, light-medium sweet, hints of earth on finish
Palate: Light-medium bodied (lighter then expected for the style), with a creamy mouthfeel, and no burn
Overall Impression: Overall, I thought this was a decent Imperial Porter, but it just didn't quite hit for me. There was something a little lacking, maybe a little thin, about it in both flavor and body, that kept the score from being higher.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle thanks to AirForceHops
Appearance: Pours dark brown with a medium sized beige head and some lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, dried cocoa and caramel
Taste: Lightly roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, sweet caramel with a bitter finish
A nice porter, very drinkable.