5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12 oz bottle purchased as a single at the Trader Joes in Kansas City, Missouri. Labeled as "KBC Porter", Kennebunkport Brewing Co. Best Enjoyed Before Jan 13 notched on the label. The pour is a darker brown ruby, with a one inch tan head that is pretty foamy, but lasting. The aroma is light vanilla, cream, red apple fruit sweetness, and a bit of roastiness. The taste has more of a roast forward flavor, which is a bit charred and ashy in addition to the roasted Barley. Under the char is vanilla cream of the nose, and the finish has a bit of a chemically saccharine taste. The palate is thin to medium bodied, high carbonation level and a char saccharine finish which really didn’t work for me. Overall, just ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2012
at 18:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Trader Joe’s, DC 12oz ($1): Pours a dark brown color with a quickly dissipating tan head. Aroma is mostly chocolate and roasted malts. Taste was surprisingly good actually. Nice chocolatey flavour. Nothing too complex, but very drinkable. This is a very mild porter and doesn’t really go much for the hops, but there is some bitterness present. Some aftertaste that lingers for a bit. All in all, this was a pleasant surprise though by no means a porter that has wowed me like no other.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2011
at 20:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle pours mahogany with dark tan head. The aroma is sort of dusty roasty malts, some burnt malts and a hind of chocolate malts sprinkled around here and there. The taste has a medley of various degrees of roasted maltiness from roasted to highly roasted to burnt malts and then to chocolate malts and dark roasted coffee. In the background I get a touch of earthiness. Nice roasty Porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2011
at 17:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle. Pours reddish brown with a light tan head. Nice coffee and malted milk ball aroma, sweet toffee. Flavor is thinnish, toffee, cocoa, and coffee. A bit ashy in the finish. Nice aroma, but the body doesn’t live up to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2011
at 22:14
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home in London with Lyoli. Pours a clear brown with a soft, off-white head. Nutty, slight roasted malt nose. Sweetish flavor with cocoa, light toffee, light roast and mild bitters. Light bodied with average carbonation. Finish has a bit more roasty bite, more cocoa, some brown sugar and modest leafy bitterness. Nice, highly drinkable beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2011
at 11:59
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Aroma of vanilla, oak, and coffee. Good palate. Low carbonation. Flavor has cardboard, grain, and some coffee, but something seems off with the flavor. Still, very cheap at Trader Joes, so no regrets.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2009
at 21:06
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Trader Joes - Short Pump on 05/20/2009. Clear dark brown body with ruby highlights and a large rocky tan head. Chocolate and light caramel aroma with some floral hop notes. Chocolate, caramel, some light yeasty notes and burnt malt, with a bit of hop bitter in the finish. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2009
at 16:03
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 ounce bottle from Trader Joe’s in Glen Allen, VA. Pours a very dark ruby color with a medium head. Decent retention and good lacing. Aroma of nuts, chocolate and fruity notes. Taste is caramel, toasted malts, caramel and nuts. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2009
at 00:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle from TJs poured into a New Belgium goblet glass. Its a pretty good porter with a lot of chocolate coming through. Easy drinking, not much of a head formation though. Not much more I can say about that but decent stuff, cannot understand the low ratings. This is the first decent thing that Shipyard has contract brewed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2009
at 23:56
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
12 oz bottle from Trader Joes; not an aliased Sea Dog; Nose has caramel, chocolate and a light diacetyl (buttery) note; claer but very dark brown with a medium beige head; flavor was very light caramel, light hop bitterness, and that pesky diacetyl (light and quickly fading but present). Finish lightly bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2008
at 23:26