Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter - Great Lakes Brewing Company

dciBA

Maine

4.25/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Pours a deep dark brown from the 12oz bottle into a basic pint glass. Crimson on the edges under direct light. A couple of inches of tan head forms, and most of it lingers for quite a while. Tons of thick lacing as the level drops.

Smell is simple but very nice. Coffee and chocolate. Milk chocolate mostly with quite a bit of medium roast coffee.

Taste is nearly identical. Almost perfectly balanced between coffee and chocolate. As the beer warms roasted coffee beans become apparent. The finish is all coffee. Just enough bitterness to balance everything out.

Very smooth and creamy on the palate. Flavor lingers for a long time. Something I didn't expect from a 5.8% beer. Pretty basic, but very enjoyable porter from Great Lakes.

Serving type: bottle

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