Speakeasy Payback Smoked Porter - Speakeasy Ales & Lagers

elNopalero

Texas

4.55/5  rDev +8.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75

This pours a dark roasty-black color with light foaming. It has a great assertive smoked aroma on it, big and intense, with a wonderful smokey flavor and finish. Thick, heavy, like liquid BBQ. This is not a beginners smoked beer by any means. Of course I loved it.

Serving type: on-tap

02-27-2013 08:36:00 | More by elNopalero

josephwa

Minnesota

4.25/5  rDev +1.4%

05-06-2013 04:16:03 | More by josephwa

Greywulfken

New York

3.76/5  rDev -10.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

A: black bodied beer in a stout flute glass produced a couple of fingers of head; left no lacing to speak of

S: no surprises here: that roasty espresso aroma common to such beers, but with a bold smoky aroma of burnt wood

T: fairly straightforward and predictable (based on the aroma): cold, dry, bitter espresso-ish malts and ample amounts of smoky char

M: medium-to-light bodied, modest carbonation, slick, some coating, bittering

O: a smoky porter, exactly as advertised - probably worthy of higher ratings if you're a big fan of smoked porters and the like; but for me, it seemed rather simple (as opposed to complex) and not particularly compelling. This is probably a matter of personal taste preferences. I have only enjoyed a couple of smoked beers (the Bruery's Smoking Wood Rye and Vlad the Inhaler spring to mind), but in its purest form, it may not be a favorite style of mine, so take my review with a grain of salt (or should I say a breath of smoke?)

Serving type: bottle

05-02-2013 01:14:35 | More by Greywulfken