Vanilla Bean Porter
Buckeye Brewing Company in Lakewood, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.53
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Very dark brown in colour with a thin tan head. 80% opaque. Roasted malt, vanilla & caster sugar in the aroma. Light to Medium-bodied; Decent roasted malt tastee with some sweet characteristics finishing with a metallic twang. Aftertaste bittered from the malt, sweetened from the sugars and tainted by the metal. Overall, a good beer, but could use some work! I am very lucky to have sampled this beer...large thanks go out to Jah_noth for this bottle from Ohio-Thanks Dan! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle on 01-November-2003.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Thanks to alcfron for this interesting brew. This is the first Buckeye beer that was in a 12oz, not 22oz bottle. That may be for the best because this beer was a little disappointing to me. Pours practically black with a thick light beige head. As with Stoney Creek''s version, this is on the carbonated side for a Porter, and the vanilla is not very prevalent in the aroma or flavor. As a matter of fact I liked this one less. It did get noticeably better as it warmed, and I ended up drinking it warmer than I usually drink Porters. Flavor of coffee and malt with underlying sour milk. Finish was a little dry which indeed kept this from being too hard to drink. Either way this won''t be high on my list the next time I get Buckeye beer.