Port City Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Alexandria,
Virginia,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Port City Brewing Company
Established in 2011
Contact
Description
Port City Brewing Company is an award-winning craft brewery and proud producer of an exciting line of hand-made, great quality, locally crafted beers. Its name comes from Alexandria's rich and colorful origins as an important colonial seaport and later, a major brewing center home to the largest brewery in the southern United States. Port City Brewing Company is proud to revive, celebrate, and continue this rich brewing tradition right outside of our Nation's Capital.
7/10
AC beer fest
Tried
on 06 Apr 2014
at 10:39
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Some light coriander and light aroma of Belgian floral yeast here. Finishes with some sweetness, average carbonation. Bottle at some bar I don’t remember.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2014
at 13:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Surprisingly good. Very rich and robust roast malt aroma. Pungent and thick. Some light booze and caramel with a bite of bitter dark chocolate. Well balanced. Thick and rich on palate. Medium bitter finish. Bottle at Capital Lounge.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2014
at 15:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft at Sedona Charlottesville. Pours a clear copper color with a thin frothy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of tropical, resin, citrus hops, mild pale malt. The taste is juicy tropical and citrus hops, mild pale caramel malt. Thin-medium bodied, smooth, slight lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Feb 2014
at 23:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at Whole Foods Charlottesville. Pours a slightly hazy copper color with a thin frothy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of toasted malts, caramel, apple, grassy and floral hops. The taste is apples, toasted malts, caramel, mild spicy hops. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Feb 2014
at 15:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at Rustico Alexandria poured into a tasting snifter. Pours a dark golden honey yellow with two fingers of off-white head. Aromas of honey, stone fruit, caramel, wheat, and malts. Tastes of stone fruit, pine, caramel, light booze, wheat. Malt forward, medium-light body with a semi-dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2014
at 17:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at "Kill the Keg" at Mad Fox Brewing. Aroma is sweet malts. Flavor is sweet, some biscuit, but mostly a sweet malty beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jan 2014
at 17:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at GBBF 2013, Day 3 - London. Pours clear, deep gold with a creamy, off-white head. The nose holds citrus, spicy pine and light bubblegum. Medium sweet flavor with bready malts, moderate herbal hops, pine, orange. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Some grassy bitterness in the finale with bready sweetness, pine and dried orange. OK.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jan 2014
at 02:09
5.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
On tap at Commercial Tap House on 06/28/2011. Dark black body with a medium frothy light brown head. Sweet fruit and roast aroma. Slightly tart roast and fruit flavor with a dry finish. Medium light body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jan 2014
at 17:57
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On draught at a restaurant in Alexandria, November 2013. decnet black coffee and plain chocolate notes, before some roasty malts and dryish finish. Very good.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2013
at 14:38