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Old Viscosity
Port Brewing
- From:
- Port Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
Ranked #1,316 - ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 92
Ranked #4,280 - Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 8.67%
- Reviews:
- 902
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 26, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 11, 2004
- Wants:
- 172
- Gots:
- 302
This is definitely not your Dad’s 30 weight!
An enormously rich and satisfying beer, Old Viscosity begins with a malty nose with caramel and chocolate overtones. An incredibly rich beer with substantial malty notes, Old Viscosity finishes with a dry, sweet Dark Chocolate bitterness.
HopsGerman Magnum
Original Gravity1.091
AvailabilityYear Round
An enormously rich and satisfying beer, Old Viscosity begins with a malty nose with caramel and chocolate overtones. An incredibly rich beer with substantial malty notes, Old Viscosity finishes with a dry, sweet Dark Chocolate bitterness.
HopsGerman Magnum
Original Gravity1.091
AvailabilityYear Round
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Ratings by bbothen:
Reviewed by bbothen from California
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Not your dad's 30 weight. Indeed.
Pours jet black with a small tan colored head. Nice lacing on glass.
Smells of licorice, coffee, chocolate, faint smoke, dark fruit, sweet malr, & booze. Alot going on in the aroma department.
How do you describe delicious? Chocolate flavors with a hop & coffee bitterness, sweet plum, cherry, & bourbon heat. Oh mama. Super complex.
Smooth, creamy, full, fantastic. 10% makes 1 bottle plenty. Can't have too much pf a great thing.
I actually enjoyed slightly colder than cellar temp. Am I kicked out of the club? This is the first Port beer I ever tried. Have had many since. This one is top notch. Just like the brewery.
Jul 18, 2008Pours jet black with a small tan colored head. Nice lacing on glass.
Smells of licorice, coffee, chocolate, faint smoke, dark fruit, sweet malr, & booze. Alot going on in the aroma department.
How do you describe delicious? Chocolate flavors with a hop & coffee bitterness, sweet plum, cherry, & bourbon heat. Oh mama. Super complex.
Smooth, creamy, full, fantastic. 10% makes 1 bottle plenty. Can't have too much pf a great thing.
I actually enjoyed slightly colder than cellar temp. Am I kicked out of the club? This is the first Port beer I ever tried. Have had many since. This one is top notch. Just like the brewery.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by DarkLordScott from Wisconsin
3.84/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours black with a nice, yeasty three finger head with lingering qualities. Aroma is roasted malt and coffee, with a touch of chocolate. Taste is immediately coffee, so much so that it likely overwhelms everything else. Some chocolate notes appear at the end, however, the overall effect is a coffee profile. This unbalance is the undoing of this brew, which is otherwise, tasty moderately bodied and visually appealing.
Mar 03, 2023Reviewed by misteil from Ireland
4.3/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
i got vaccinated today, figured i may as well have a brew, picked a nice one too, beer is black as night, tan coloured head which quickly dissipates, lovely aroma on this, deep rich malt, dark chocolate, tobacco, vanilla, dark fruits, caramel, flavours much the same, nice balance between dark malt flavours, sweet milk chocolate and vanilla, and bitter espresso, oaky, lightly nutty, high levels of bitterness on the finish, smokey malt flavours and sweet caramel flavours linger, full bodied and light carbonation, heavy, really quite boozy, lot of warming, all in all very nice stuff, just the beer i wanted really, proper nice imperial stout
Aug 19, 2021Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
4.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
A - Pitch black pour with light caramel head floating on top and dense lacing.
S - Deep chocolate roast, char, and light smoke.
T - Chocolate roast and chocolate char from start to finish. Ends with a nice lingering chocolate roast bitterness.
M - Thick and velvety with a tad bit of thin around the edges, dry on the back of the tongue with a slight chalky residue coating the mouth.
O - An easy drinking Imperial Stout where the alcohol pokes through somewhat at the beginning but quickly subsides.
May 31, 2021S - Deep chocolate roast, char, and light smoke.
T - Chocolate roast and chocolate char from start to finish. Ends with a nice lingering chocolate roast bitterness.
M - Thick and velvety with a tad bit of thin around the edges, dry on the back of the tongue with a slight chalky residue coating the mouth.
O - An easy drinking Imperial Stout where the alcohol pokes through somewhat at the beginning but quickly subsides.
Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
3.75/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle. I think it’s a 2015, but the date is smudged.
Tan head. Lace. Black color.
Roasted malts, bitter dark chocolate, coffee, caramel. Not super thick, but it’s a big stout. Lots of oak. Lots of bitterness from the chocolate and hops.
Mar 27, 2021Tan head. Lace. Black color.
Roasted malts, bitter dark chocolate, coffee, caramel. Not super thick, but it’s a big stout. Lots of oak. Lots of bitterness from the chocolate and hops.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
4.32/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
1 pt. 6 fl. oz. bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 10.0%. Black colour (dark ruby when held to the light), huge tan head. Lovely aroma of moderately roasted malts, mild coffee, chocolate, oak and leather. Full and rich flavour, malty predominance with much the same elements as the aroma, moderate but sufficient hops in the finish. Well balanced, immensely pleasant to drink. Warming mouthfeel, but the alcohol is otherwise well hidden in the flavour.
Mar 20, 2021Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.44/5 rDev +7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
this is one of the beers that started my cellar, maybe not the very first bottle, but near it, and not because i adored it and wanted to see how it aged, indeed i had never even had it before, but because i was loving port at the time and never had the occasion to break it out over the years, that or i forgot, and its been collecting dust ever since. ive been doing one random cellar dark beer every thursday during quarantine for my own entertainment, and i feel thankful to have pulled this one yesterday. i cant find a date on the bottle, but this has to be approaching ten years old, its no newer than maybe seven years, i do not totally recall its origin story, lots has happened since then, but suffice it to say it should be called ancient viscosity! i dont always love how stouts age, they often taste oxidized and thin to me, especially ones that spent time in oak, sometimes its just better to drink them close to fresh, but i was rewarded for my patience with this one, that is certain, and the quality and refinement overall here is additional testament to how amazing port is with quality and attention to detail, its immaculate. close to jet black with a surprisingly high head, mocha colored and frothy, with great retention and even some lace, unexpected in a beer this old, and some obvious bottle conditioning has taken place, this is velvet to drink. i get notes of dark chocolate, black licorice, and unlit cigar in the nose and taste here, with subtle bready yeast character, earthy spice, wet hearty oak, and rich molasses. just a bit of oxidation to the nose, but absent from the flavor, shocking for how old this is. there is a nice decadence to this with it being quite dry for the style, but i do get an almost belgian dark candy sugar taste in here, all very well grounded and balanced, nice roast, smooth as anything, and really seemingly pretty bulletproof in the cellar, like even after about a decade, its still nowhere near the end of its delicious trajectory, i almost cant believe it. i love older viscosity too, but this is darn near just as good, especially with all this age on it, a stunning specimen!
May 29, 2020
Old Viscosity from Port Brewing
Beer rating:
92 out of
100 with
2026 ratings
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