War Hammer
Valkyrie Brewing

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From:
Valkyrie Brewing
 
Wisconsin, United States
Style:
American Porter
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
82
Avg:
3.61 | pDev: 16.62%
Reviews:
89
Ratings:
110
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jun 26, 2020
Added:
May 21, 2002
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  3
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Ratings by paco1029384756:
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Reviewed by paco1029384756 from Illinois

3.8/5  rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a near black color with a small off white head and a fairly thing ring of lacing.

Scent of chocolate, some coffee, lactose, oats, and a hint of smoke. A solid, and balanced scent.

Taste of lactose, oats, chocolate, some coffee and faint candy. A bit less impressive than the scent, but this is certainly not a bad beer by any means.

Mouthfeel is medium light bodied and smooth with decent carbonation.
Aug 23, 2009
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Reviewed by scaliasux from Wisconsin

3.24/5  rDev -10.2%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
L - Very dark brown. Light brown, thin head.

S - Dark malts and coffee; a little bread; a little chocolate.

T - Unexpected fruity acidity, dark malts, coffee.

F - Light.

O - This is definitely something different.
Jun 26, 2020
 
Rated: 3.5 by d5001986 from Wisconsin

Jul 29, 2018
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Reviewed by Victory_Sabre1973 from Minnesota

3.86/5  rDev +6.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a nice black color. The head was minimal, and brown colored.
The nose has got hints of coffee. Nothing too strong.
Taste - a mellow blend of coffee, and lactose. Fairly well blended, and not too strong.
Decent body.
Decent coffee beer. I am enjoying his.
Oct 12, 2017
 
Rated: 4.51 by Lupigrant from Minnesota

Mar 25, 2016
 
Rated: 3.59 by DissentFatsquirrel from Minnesota

Feb 05, 2016
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Reviewed by Cfred371 from Minnesota

3.85/5  rDev +6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
This bottle was at least a month old, as my dad gave it to me as a gift around Christmas. I let the beer warm for 20 minutes or so.

Look the beer pours a dark brown, with some light coming through on the very edges of the glass. Poured fairly aggressively with minimal head. What head does come up is a khaki color.

Smell: first hint was not what I expected, but seems common in reviews: dark fruit, specifically like a raisin scent. I don't get much else

Taste: raisin, oatmeal, and, possibly a stretch, the finish has some chocolate to it. I was surprised how little coffee I got from War Hammer.

Feel: not terribly carbonated, and about a medium to a little more of a mouthfeel. There is a slight bitterness in the finish that will linger, but it's really not too much.

Overall: A nice beer, but certainly not a world class brew. I'm curious how much coffee they use in their recipe or if the coffee just dies off quickly.
Jan 27, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by harpus from Alabama

Aug 25, 2015
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Reviewed by KevChiTown

3.7/5  rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Super interesting only because I expected "coffee-milk-stout-porter"s kinda aways good generic flavor. This one however, is nothing like that. Straight up dried fruit in the nose and taste that right away, I felt would be followed by a sourness, which never came. Very cool beer, nice surprise, will keep an eye out now for something else from Valkyrie.
Feb 24, 2015
 
Rated: 3.76 by SF_Posse from Wisconsin

Dec 07, 2014
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Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon

3.13/5  rDev -13.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
12oz bottle, unknown bottling date. Served in a snifter 11/14/2014.

A- Dark brown body, opaque and dark. Minimal mocha head, very little retention time, no lacing. [3.5]

S- Coffee, dark fruit, no roast. Hint of milk chocolate. Earthy. Not particularly impressive, fairly average nose. [3]

F- Initial taste is odd, with the dark fruit flavours giving me a slight cherry flavour without any tartness; switching over fairly quickly to a mildly bitter coffee flavour mixed in with minimal milk chocolate sweetness, finishing off with a bitter, resinous earthiness and coffee bean. There is not very much depth or intensity of any one flavour; it is simultaneously strange and bland. [3.25]

M- On the thinner side; low in carbonation and quite astringent coffee bean and cherry flavours on the finish. It gets a bit more drinkable as it finishes, but for the most part it's not something I'm looking to guzzle, as it is fairly bitter and slightly metallic on the finish overall. [3]

O- Weird beer. I may have gotten an old bottle, but the coffee flavours manifest mostly as a bitterness on the finish and there is minimal lactose character with little to no roast character that porters typically have. Not a beer I would recommend, unfortunately. [3]

Final score: 3.14
Nov 14, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by zkoehn from Wisconsin

Oct 27, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by 22Blue from Kansas

Oct 18, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by einman from Minnesota

Aug 22, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by BrownAleMale from Wisconsin

Aug 05, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by Woodman70 from Wisconsin

Jul 18, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by FFATS from Wisconsin

Jun 04, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by JasonSullivan from Wisconsin

Apr 05, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by lazyfrodo from Texas

Mar 28, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by BYOFB from Wisconsin

Feb 08, 2014
War Hammer from Valkyrie Brewing
Beer rating: 82 out of 100 with 110 ratings