Obadiah Poundage
Goose Island Beer Co.

Pours a dark mahogany brown with moderate head that dissipates to a light ring.

Complex aroma. Pipe tobacco, stewed fruit, cocoa powder and an ever so slight hint of Brett. Very interesting.

The taste follows but is even more complex, yet light and drinkable. Stewed fruit, chocolate. Dry. The Brett is there but very subtle.

Light body, but in no way thin. Excellent.

This was a treat.

Poured plenty black, I could see some ruby highlights around the edges but could not see through at all.
The head was enthusiastic but short lived, which was okay with me as I wanted to drink it, not just stare at it.
The aroma was roasted malts, coffee centric and an organic something I couldn’t define. (I am told that is the Brett. Interesting)
The taste, smooth, deep and malty. Definitely some coffee notes but not flavors. The same organic aspect is in play here; it's certainly additive to the betterment of the flavor, I simply don't know how to define it.
The feel, well, smooth. Not viscous or chewy, something that could easily be enjoyed by the pint, and by another, and another...
Here I was thinking Baltic porters were my thing and this one beats them out. Kudos to GI and Wimbledon breweries!

 

Received from @fbarber in the NBS BIF #14. Poured into a pint glass. It pours a deep, clear cola color with a thick, creamy, medium khaki-colored head and thick ring of clinging lacing. The smell is earthy, slightly herbal, with hints of citrus, oak, caramel, and nuts. It's a unique aroma for a Porter. Its taste is similarly singular: it lacks the sweetness I'd expect. Rather, It's bitter and it has a certain citrus sourness which I attribute to the Brett yeast. There are hints of caramel, smoky peat, molasses, and nutty char at the finish. It has great depth. The mouth feel is just superb: it's thick and creamy with moderate carbonation. At 6.5% ABV it drinks very easily. Overall, Obadiah Poundage is an adventuresome interpretation of the style: a flavorful and really enjoyable English Porter. If it is authentic to what was brewed in London in the 19th century, then I missed out! A fine job by Goose Island

 

 

Pours a lovely reddish brown color, with a thick, dense velvety tan head that forms on the beer and then slowly dissolves leaving layers of lacing on the glass along with a thin layer of foam coating the top of the beer. The aroma on this is so unique - immediately you get light hints of brett coming through on that nose providing a slight funky tartness on the note. once you work past that somewhat startling note you get notes of a dark brown maltiness - but its not bready, just generically malty. Notes of coca, leather, ash and tobacco come through as well.

For as complex as the nose is, the taste even surpasses that. Its got smoke, roasted almost charred malt notes, cocoa, dark fruit, tobacco, leather, ash and some light bitter hoppy notes. There is a slight tartness from the brett, but there is also smoke from the malts and how they are made, so you end up with this complex interplay of really different flavors and yet they marry so beautifully in this beer. The resulting beer is remarkably drinkable - one could easily see drinking this by the pint in a London pub. Feel is super smooth, medium to moderately bodied, with a gentle, even carbonation. Quite dry on the finish with a slight bitterness.

Overall this is an absolutely incredible beer - its a genuinely delicious beer and a joy to drink - but then add in the amount of effort put in to this beer to make it historically accurate and its really one of the best and most interesting beers Ive ever had the pleasure to drink.