tap at Mad Anthony Oktoberfest - Pours brown, not even dark brown really, which is odd for a porter. There’s a thin off-white head and a light, roast malt aroma. The flavor is mainly just easy going roast malt with some hops coming through in the finish. Not bad, but it’s less than impressive for a porter.

tap at Mad Anthony Oktoberfest - Pours orange with a two finger lingering head. It has a mild caramel malt aroma. The flavor is caramel malt with a nice, moderately strong hops bite. There’s a light to medium body in this easy drinking session brew.

Pours clear copper with nice half inch off white head and some cobweb lacing. Nice looking beer. The aroma is mild bringing up some sweet maltiness and faint vague hoppiness that seems to border on being pine in nature. The aroma is really light and tough to discern. The taste goes from lightly roasted malts to more medium roasted or 90L type crystal malts mixed with some pine hop bitterness. The feel is a bit thin but not too bad considering the style. The mild pine hop bitterness and medium roasted malts head right off into the finish and after taste. Tasty offering.

On tap at the 2008 edition of the Florida Brewer’s Guild Beer Fest. Pours hazy brown with orange hues holding up a lasting ring of white foam along with faint spotty lacing. The aroma has solid peatiness along with earthiness and light roasty malts. Nice scotch ale mixture. I also get a mild background of sweet maltiness running along the earthy and peaty aromas. The taste is much like the aroma with delicious peaty malts with some earthiness. At a lower level I taste faint date like prune like fruity esters. I also get a faint drying malt astringency going along with just as faint vague hop tartness or bitterness that provides a pleasing added complexity to the experience. The peat really lingers well into the after taste along with faint date and prune dark fruitiness.

Pours a perfect clear amber with slightly creamy tan head and spotty. Spot on looking porter in my opinion. The beer is served up too cold so the aroma comes across as meek mustering up notes of mild roasty malts and a hint of dark fruity esters. Not much else in there to pick out. The taste is just like the aroma starting with highly roasted malts that approach burnt mixing with mild dark fruity esters like prunes and figs. Toward midway I get a ripe cherry fruitiness that builds up. The highly roasted maltiness heads off into the finish and well into the after taste. Not much in the way of porter like charred malts in this beer. Very tasty nonetheless.

On Nitro draft at Florida Brewers Guild Fest 2007. Poured black with tall creamy light brown (mocha) head. Light aroma consisting of roasted and burnt malts. The flavor starts of kind of neutral and slowly coffee, roasted and burnt malts come to the surface. Into the dry finish the burnt malts seem to take over.

On tap at Florida Brewers Guild Fest 2007. Pours a deep copper with lasting tan head. Sweet malt and dark fruit aroma. Flavor is smooth and drinkable with semi sweet pine hops, roasted malts, dark fruit and a hint of maybe pale malts. Slight sense of the ABV.

12/02/06 Walk the Line Barleywine Festival, Dunedin, FL. 2001 vintage sample from a keg. Hazy amber color with tan head. First sense of the aroma seemed to be oak or vanilla. My second sniff didn’t pick that up at all. The aroma became more sweet malts and dark fruitiness. Really soft hop flavor with some malt sweetness and fruitiness. This one seems like it just recently passed its prime.

The 2000 sampled from a keg actually tasted a bit brighter with more assertive hoppiness and fruity cherry/grape flavor than the 2001.

The 1997 sampled from a keg had no head and almost no aroma. The flavor was nice though and I thought the best of the three. There was a toffee note that mixed well with the dark grape fruitiness and hops.

On tap at Florida Brewers Guild Fest 2007. Poured cloudy straw color with off white head. It has a sweet almost honey aroma with some sharp lemon like citrus notes. The flavor is sweet. It’s a bit too sweet with maybe candi sugar and something else. Also some yeast and lemon like citrus was noticeable in the aroma.

Quaffable, yet hearty - shares many characteristics with an ESB, at least as far as hop content goes, but there is a heep of caramel malt to make it nice, creamy and "meaty" - went great with my tuna steak.

This is nearly identical to their stout in every way, aside from the thinner body - I wouldn’t say it’s simply a watered-down version of the stout, but there is a particular quality to the beer that makes it seem a little too thin for a porter - quite roasty, perhaps a bit more chocolate than the stout - good, but not as tasty as its bigger brother.