State Pen Porter
Santa Fe Brewing Company

State Pen PorterState Pen Porter
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From:
Santa Fe Brewing Company
 
New Mexico, United States
Style:
American Porter
ABV:
6.4%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.8 | pDev: 10%
Reviews:
142
Ratings:
365
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 26, 2019
Added:
Apr 14, 2007
Wants:
  14
Gots:
  52
A trademark beer of the Santa Fe Brewing Company’s master brewer, Ty Levis, the State Pen Porter has every reason to be one of his favorites. It is flavorful, swimming with notes of nuts and chocolate; it is drinkable, so drinkable that it is almost as if pint after pint were drinking itself.
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Ratings by vette2006c5r:
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Reviewed by vette2006c5r from Minnesota

4.56/5  rDev +20%
look: 3.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
State Pen Porter pours a black color, with a small lacing head. There is a strong fresh coffee bean smell, with hints of chocolate. The taste has a strong coffee taste, very fresh, and has a nice bitterness, on a smokey malty backbone. Very easy to drink, has a nice full coffee taste. Overall I find this a very full and flavorful porter, a must try.
Apr 08, 2012
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.5 by atlbravsrno1 from Maine

Dec 26, 2019
 
Rated: 3.83 by Kolb from Montana

Apr 29, 2019
 
Rated: 3.75 by Karibourgeois from Texas

Feb 20, 2019
 
Rated: 3 by Hayley_86 from Netherlands

Dec 16, 2018
 
Rated: 3.82 by gmale9000 from New York

Dec 06, 2018
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Reviewed by Slatetank from Pennsylvania

3.95/5  rDev +3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Black opaque with small pale tan head
Smell is toasty with mild sweetened cocoa and roasted nuts
Mouthfeel is good with mild sweetness roast and lightly bitter texture with dry finish moderately carbonated
Taste is great with full nastiness with chocolate malt and caramel taste light yeast in flavor
Overall this is a very good Porter with nice balance
Oct 06, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by goblue30 from Michigan

Aug 28, 2018
 
Rated: 4.39 by corywalston from North Dakota

Jul 11, 2018
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Reviewed by Mitchster from Michigan

3.66/5  rDev -3.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Pours out to a clear deep Walnut near brown with a fair amount of yeast sediment forming a modest light tan head with poor retention and average lacing. Nose of baking chocolate, Black walnut. Medium bodied and moderately acidic mouthfeel. The taste opens with baking chocolate and black walnut followed by moderate roast acidity and chalk in the aftertaste. Bitterness is medium low.

An ok porter. A bit too acidic but drinkable.
May 09, 2018
 
Rated: 3.44 by Mortarforker from Texas

Apr 28, 2018
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado

3.75/5  rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
in american craft brewing the porter style has tended more and more towards the robust porter, with a more bitter and roasty dark malt complexion and less of the mid range chocolates and crystals, as well as less of the old world yeast characteristics, a trend i have often found agreeable, but it is also really nice to drink what i would term a session porter. not because its low alcohol, but because its rather mild in comparison to what is happening out there in the style, and i think its mellow enough to want to drink a few of them at least, almost no roasted bitterness here at all, a little mid palate sweetness but dry at the end, and without a ton of body. i get notes of toasted chestnuts, instant chocolate milk, and faint hazelnut, english yeast, and coffee cake. its mild and autumnal and really very well balanced and built. i know this is not the kind of porter that gets headlines, but it really is an excellent example of the style, a bit of a throwback to the porters of the early american craft movement. better than many!
Apr 16, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by andyjeigh from Oklahoma

Apr 02, 2018
 
Rated: 3.92 by BeerorDie from New Mexico

Mar 31, 2018
 
Rated: 3.82 by Taphouse_Traveler from Florida

Mar 29, 2018
 
Rated: 3.75 by chefbigjon from Arizona

Feb 20, 2018
 
Rated: 4.14 by Klub98 from Texas

Jan 05, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Jan 03, 2018
 
Rated: 3.48 by sbuck from New Mexico

Oct 28, 2017
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Reviewed by puck1225 from Texas

3.85/5  rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a can into a tulip glass. Dark brown body with small short lived head and good lacing. Nice chocolate smell. Taste of chocolate and roasted malt. Overal, a good porter.
Oct 05, 2017
State Pen Porter from Santa Fe Brewing Company
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 365 ratings