Smoked Porter
Martha's Exchange Restaurant & Brewing Company in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Smoked Regular|
Score
6.82
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask@GBBF 2009. Opaque black color, tiny beige head. Strong aroma of smoked ham and peat. Light porter. Some peat, smoke, smoked ham. Pleasant, even goes as a session beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
on tap-pours a light tan head and black color with effervescence. Aroma is roasty, dark malt-chocolate, slight sharpness. Taste is mild smoke/roasty, dark malt-chocolate/some coffee, slight sharpness from hops. Medium body. Mild/minimum carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask half pint at NERAX on 5/4/06. Deeply brown, near-black pour shows low to medium-low clarity, with very faint dark-chestnut tinges on the sides. Rich tan head is moderately well retained with blotchy lacing and plenty of head clinging to the sides. First couple of notes from the nose are softly smoky. Probably about 70% of the aroma, but yet, not overly oily/greasy and with soft, sweet chocolate flavors behind it. A bit of poignant roast emerges as it warms, and building up momentum are the hops. Green, citric and very juicy, they seem to complement the dark, sweet and rich flavors well, not being too bitter or sharp/disruptive. The smoke seems to fall off significantly as it breathes, or perhaps the nose accustoms itself to it? Anyways, it becomes a lightly cakey, choco-caramel display, with some minimally dry roast on the end. Upon the first sip, two things happen, primarily. Smoke is fluidly distributed about the palate, hand-in-hand with dry roast, and citric, heavily bitter hops spike up on the finish. Lightly oily texture, nearly creamy at times, but importantly, not heavy or underattenuated. Moderate carbonation also sees to this. Vanilla cream, dry wood smoke and strong roast play about heavily, with an appropriate balance of caramel. Plenty going on here, that’s for sure, and though it’s not presented very delicately, I can’t deny the overall force of the flavors does not seem overly muddled. Certainly there is a high amount of flavor, with an appropriate texture. No alcohol noted in aroma or flavor.