Tonight's beer: Foothills People's Porter
Opens with a flurry of roasty bitterness—coffee with plentiful threads of chocolate—backed by impressions of earth and grass. Caramel-toasty dark-bready sweetness fills in quickly through the middle, glazed with molasses and maybe a little maple, then ebbs slowly and gracefully as the beer slides toward dry. Possibilities of fruit (dark, dried/candied) and spice around the edges.
Maybe a bit heavier and thicker than medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. Some soft chewiness, a bit of lingering syrupy stickiness, eventually kinda drying and almost refreshing.
Impressive. A very tasty porter from a brewery I've heard lots of good stuff about. Intense and complex, surprisingly well-balanced, entirely unified. Drinkable as hell, even in the teeth of summer. A nice introduction to the brewery; I'll have to see if I can find more of their other beers.
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| Foothills People's Porter |
Opens with a flurry of roasty bitterness—coffee with plentiful threads of chocolate—backed by impressions of earth and grass. Caramel-toasty dark-bready sweetness fills in quickly through the middle, glazed with molasses and maybe a little maple, then ebbs slowly and gracefully as the beer slides toward dry. Possibilities of fruit (dark, dried/candied) and spice around the edges.
Maybe a bit heavier and thicker than medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. Some soft chewiness, a bit of lingering syrupy stickiness, eventually kinda drying and almost refreshing.
Impressive. A very tasty porter from a brewery I've heard lots of good stuff about. Intense and complex, surprisingly well-balanced, entirely unified. Drinkable as hell, even in the teeth of summer. A nice introduction to the brewery; I'll have to see if I can find more of their other beers.
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