Fresh, fruity smell of malt and hops. Taste has a hop bite followed by malt smoothness. Full flavored for a session beer.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
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Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Slightly sweet, slightly rich aroma of dark malt. Complex flavor that dances around but never grows to a big giant taste. Leaves you with a slightly bready malt flavor that fades out smoothly.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Dark Horse Smells Like a Safety Meeting
Slightly sweet hop aroma. Fresh flavor bite with some harshness. Leaves the mouth with a crisp flavor with hoppy hints around the edges. Further drinks have much more floral hop aroma, as it warms slightly. Bottled on 5/13/2014, drank on 5/28/2014, so it’s very fresh.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Petoskey Mind’s Eye PA
No real aroma. Taste is a slightly sharp bite of malt and hops. Very malt forward with an accompaniment of hops rather than the other way around. Slight lingering of hops as aftertaste.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Alaskan Hop-a-Thermia
Rich sweet hop aroma, but not too strong. Nice sharp hop bite with a strong malt flavor in the background. Finishes with a nice balance of hops and malt and minor hop flavors fading in the distance. Gives no hint of its big ABV. Label says 040514, but it’s May 9th. I got this as a gift from someone a little over a month ago, so I must have missed the best by date by a month. I wonder how it would be fresh.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Paw Paw Kalamazoo Urban Assault
Clean smell, slightly fruity. Crisp taste with a mild sweetness. Finishes nicely with a mild maltiness and very mild hop.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Milking it Productions Ray
Dry, sharp hop aroma. Sweet hop flavor that curls up your taste buds. Follows with a mild malt taste and finishes with a mild hop bitterness.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Arcadia B-Craft Black- Cask
Awesome big floral hoppy smell. Good bite of hops and malt that fades out to a slight malt aftertaste that fades out quickly. Tastes like a great hoppy IPA and a good porter merged together. Works very well together.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
Moderately sweet hop aroma. Very full flavored sharp hop taste. Leaves pretty cleanly, leaving faint fresh hop flavors lingering.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
North Peak Wanderer
Harsh sweet smell with a bite. Very nice malty taste with very little hops taste. Very full of flavor for a low alcohol beer, though. Slightly hoppy aftertaste with a malt undertone.
Bottled on 10/30/13, drank on 1/17/14, 2.5 months old.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
