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Happy Dog Coffee Porter
Marshall Wharf Brewing Company / Three Tides Restaurant
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- From:
- Marshall Wharf Brewing Company / Three Tides Restaurant
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 10.81%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 12, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 05, 2011
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
Green Tree Coffee used to be our neighbors, thankfully they are not far away now. We use their hand roasted coffee combined with the Wrecking Ball Baltic Porter to create this beer.
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a dark black color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated at a gentle pace. Sly stringy lace. The aroma had some swift sweet dark fruits, milk and dark chocolate, little bit of earthy hop spice, grassy sweet hops, sweet coffee notes, roasted coffee beans and a touch of vanilla at the very end. The flavor slyly moved the sweetness into the roast and pulled out a little bit of clean driftwood to touch the aftertaste in the same semi-sweet to roasty way. Finish was somewhat smooth and lenient towards the dark fruits. The palate was about medium bodied with a fair sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine. Pretty smooth along my tongue. Overall, pretty nice American styled Baltic porter to me.
Jul 12, 2017Reviewed by Bierliebhaber3 from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This Baltic porter pours a black color with a very slight red tint and a medium foamy tan head that leaves a nice lacing. The smell is very coffee heavy with some nice roasted grains as well. It’s a very appetizing scent for a coffee lover. Likewise the taste is mostly dark roast coffee and roasted grains with a little hint of chocolate thrown in. There is not a lot of sweetness and the coffee flavor, which is perhaps the most bold I have ever tried in a beer, gives it a fairly bitter finish for the style, but I don’t find it unpleasantly so. The coffee flavor is also very authentic and lacks any of the artificiality that sometimes plagues coffee flavored beers. The finish is semi-dry and pretty creamy also. The body is appropriately heavy. This big, bold porter is a dream come true for lovers of this style and also of coffee. I can appreciate it, but I think that the intense coffee flavor precludes some complexity that might emerge if some more subtle flavors could be heard. A pretty excellent porter though for my personal tastes from a brewery that I’ve come to appreciate.
Apr 15, 2017Reviewed by sweemzander from Illinois
2.62/5 rDev -35.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.25
2.62/5 rDev -35.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.25
16oz can poured into a nonic
(A)- Pours almost pitch black with some tan froth and lacing
(S)- Good combo of creamy vanilla and roast meets soft coffee grounds. Hints of raisin
(T)- Huge profile of raisin. . mountains of raisins. ALL raisin
(M)- Mellow carbonation level. Very bitter considering how much raisin is in this
(O)- Was expecting better since it started out so well
Sep 07, 2015(A)- Pours almost pitch black with some tan froth and lacing
(S)- Good combo of creamy vanilla and roast meets soft coffee grounds. Hints of raisin
(T)- Huge profile of raisin. . mountains of raisins. ALL raisin
(M)- Mellow carbonation level. Very bitter considering how much raisin is in this
(O)- Was expecting better since it started out so well
Reviewed by SomethingClever from Ohio
4.14/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
16 oz can poured into 8 oz water glass
A: Jet black with a nice thick tightly bubbled head that looks like nitro
S: pure coffee that's all I'm getting
T: huge dark roast coffee tastes with some sweetness s it's almost like drinking a black cup of coffee with sugar. Just pure coffee though
M: Nice feel for such a lower ABV porter very creamy and full
O: If you love FBS but are turned off by it's watery mouthfeel this beer will knock your socks off. It would be nice to taste the underlying beer more but I guess that's where the sweetness is coming from. Alcohol is nicely hidden fantastic mouthfeel for the ABV not much to not like about this beer.
Apr 02, 2015A: Jet black with a nice thick tightly bubbled head that looks like nitro
S: pure coffee that's all I'm getting
T: huge dark roast coffee tastes with some sweetness s it's almost like drinking a black cup of coffee with sugar. Just pure coffee though
M: Nice feel for such a lower ABV porter very creamy and full
O: If you love FBS but are turned off by it's watery mouthfeel this beer will knock your socks off. It would be nice to taste the underlying beer more but I guess that's where the sweetness is coming from. Alcohol is nicely hidden fantastic mouthfeel for the ABV not much to not like about this beer.
Reviewed by johnnnniee from New Hampshire
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Can from the Bier Cellar
Solid black color with a decent sized long lasting tan head. Chocolate and coffee with hints of vanilla and light fruit. Pretty tasty stuff.
Mar 26, 2015Solid black color with a decent sized long lasting tan head. Chocolate and coffee with hints of vanilla and light fruit. Pretty tasty stuff.
Happy Dog Coffee Porter from Marshall Wharf Brewing Company / Three Tides Restaurant
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
33 ratings
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