Posts Tagged: Porter Season
Porter Season: Deep Enders Dark Porter, Anderson Valley, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 in - leave a comment
Just because the night came earlier, it was still hot - not even getting too far below 20C tonight. Just because it is autumn, is it porter season? • This one pours very deep dark black with a fine mocha head and reeks of date, damson plum and bakers chocolate. Lighter body than you would expect …
Porter Season: Black Irish Plain Porter, Scotch Irish, ONT, CAN
Posted by on Saturday, September 22, 2007 in - 1 comment
Greg beat me to this review but only because he is in the heart of LCBO-land, Toronto, and it takes some beers weeks to make the two hour trip east. The nuttiness of that is compounded by the fact that beer is brewed by Scotch Irish Brewing (now aka Heritage Brewing) of Carleton Place to the east …
Porter Season: Black Hole, Weyerbacher, PA, USA
Posted by on Thursday, September 20, 2007 in - 3 comments
If stinking hot July is the month for wheat beers and the end of summer is the time for sour fruit beers, then the end of September has to herald the slowing down of my sour beer studies and the beginning of the season of porters. Why? First, they go with stew and they go in stew and no one eats …
New York: Porter, Rohrbach Brewing, Rochester
Posted by on Saturday, August 18, 2007 in - leave a comment
Growlers are not common in Canada. A few micros are now selling them at the brewery but nothing like in NY state where any decent beer store has a few good beers on draft for the customers to fill half-gallon jugs with. • This beer pours deep cola brown under a mocha loose large bubbled rim and …
Quick Note: Porter, Wensleydale Brewery, Leyburn, England
Posted by on Sunday, March 18, 2007 in - leave a comment
Tonight, there's a bit of a nip in the air. The wind seems to turned to the north. A good enough excuse to open a dark winter type ale. • As if one needed an excuse. So I reached for a bottle of Wensleydale Porter, at 6.6% a punchy little number. This dark-copper coloured ale exudes a sweet …
Nova Scotia: London Porter, Propeller Brewing
Posted by on Saturday, March 10, 2007 in - 5 comments
Halifax's Propeller Brewing Company has a new (nope, just newly noticed by me) London Style Porter. A very nice, smooth, tasty dark addition to the local brew scene. The Propeller website states: • “A dark full-flavoured beer but smoother and less bitter than stout. Made with softened water …
Seven More Porters
Posted by on Thursday, August 17, 2006 in - 12 comments
I really quite like a porter and, what with the best part of the summer's heat now in the past, you can now contemplate taking on the layers of flavour these beers should provide. I have posted a bunch of posts about porters, everything from that macro-spawn Labatt Porter that is still to be found …
Quick Note: St. Peter's Old Style Porter
Posted by on Sunday, September 18, 2005 in - 5 comments
This beer from St. Peter's is a ruby brown ale under an oddly ivory head. I've never seen an ivory head: tan plus hints of green-grey. This is old style, like Burton Bridge porter: barley candy plus molasses with lime and green hops. The yeast is sour cream or soured milk or something in between …
Quick Note: Butte Creek Organic Porter, Chico, CA
Posted by on Friday, August 5, 2005 in - leave a comment
I found this beer at Wild Oats in Portland, Maine last week. $8.99 US for a six and it comes with the "Pry Off" cap - click the photo for the details. Why twist when you can pry? • First, this is not an old school porter with the required sourness up front in the vein of, say, Grants or that …
Three More Porters
Posted by on Sunday, February 20, 2005 in - 2 comments
OK. Once again we have the timeless question of "what the heck is a porter anyway?" Each of the words in that question lead you to a different porter I have had in the last 12 months. Unlike a best bitter, a hefeweissen or a barleywine, you never know quite what the brewer is going to qualify as a …
