Tonight's beer: Samuel Adams Holiday Porter
Chocolate and coffee, walking hand-in-hand on dark toasty bread, with caramal tagging along; maybe some dark fruitiness adding to the sweet. Earthy-grassy-peaty bitterness hanging around the edges of the roastiness. Some typical porter-ish tang flashes by on the finish, with a bit of a hard metallic/mineral edge.
A medium-bodied beer with some pretty decent carbonation; surprisingly substantial for a ~5.7% ABV beer. Some gentle roasty dryness, especially on the sticky finish--bready, a little syrupy.
A very tasty American porter indeed. Drinkable practically to the point of being slurpable. Impressively flavorful--intense, complex, balanced, integrated. This and the Old Fezziwig are why I buy the Winter Classics pack. Yummy.
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| Samuel Adams Holiday Porter |
Chocolate and coffee, walking hand-in-hand on dark toasty bread, with caramal tagging along; maybe some dark fruitiness adding to the sweet. Earthy-grassy-peaty bitterness hanging around the edges of the roastiness. Some typical porter-ish tang flashes by on the finish, with a bit of a hard metallic/mineral edge.
A medium-bodied beer with some pretty decent carbonation; surprisingly substantial for a ~5.7% ABV beer. Some gentle roasty dryness, especially on the sticky finish--bready, a little syrupy.
A very tasty American porter indeed. Drinkable practically to the point of being slurpable. Impressively flavorful--intense, complex, balanced, integrated. This and the Old Fezziwig are why I buy the Winter Classics pack. Yummy.
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