Stubs Old Crow Hazelnut Porter - Alameda Brewhouse

UCLABrewN84

California

3.69/5  rDev -4.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Thanks to VoodooImpStout for sharing this one at mhksuccess' tasting.

Pours an opaque dark brown with a foamy dark khaki head that settles to a small cap on top of the beer. Small dots of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of dark roasted malt and some sour and tart fruit aromas. Taste is much the same with a nutty flavor on the finish. There is a medium amount of roasty bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a higher level of carbonation with a crisp and prickly mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer with an obvious infection issue but it's actually pretty good this way.

Serving type: bottle

02-18-2013 04:26:34 | More by UCLABrewN84

EgadBananas

Louisiana

3.95/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Pours a nice rich black colour. Head was a dark tan, finger, left frothy lacing in it's wake. The aroma is quite roasty, with some chocolate and espresso notes, and a tinge of vanilla. Some sweetness hints at hazelnuts, but it's hard to discern. The taste is also quite roasty, with a nice chocolate bit to it, a sweet nuttiness (though it's not what I'm used to with hazelnut). It finishes with a bit of a floral hop bitterness. The feel is great: creamy, rich, medium bodied, good supple carbonation level.

The hazelnut strikes out in a lot of ways with this, in my opinion, but that really doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty damn tasty American Porter.

Serving type: bottle

11-21-2012 03:47:12 | More by EgadBananas