Paul's Porter - Pinot Barrel Aged

Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of ridiculously strong and pungent wine, alcohol, chocolate, earth, roasted malt, raisins and way more alcohol - seemingly a ton with only 6,2% abv! Medium-bodied; Strong chocolate flavour with a lot of milk and cream, some subdued earthy notes and a lot of wine and port flavours coupled with some raisin and grape sweetess as well. Aftertaste shows a very nice complexity with an earthy flavour, some chewy malt, a pleasant and long-lasting sweetness and the wine barrel aging that you can taste a mile away. Overall a very strong and well-layered beer with (what is listed) only 6,2% abv, but feels way higher in the taste - given that I had to enter this beer, which I couldn’t believe, I’m happy to have gotten my hands on this, because it was so good! Definitely worth searching out for, even in this land of amazing beers. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Belmont Station in Portland, Oregon on 25-April-2013 for US$11,43 sampled at home in Washington on 29-September-2014.