Thresher
Broadway Brewery & Restaurant

 

 

Black in color with minimal light penetration. There’s a fingernail of beige around most of the rim and covering a third of the top. The aroma is of chocolate. I’m tasting chocolate, chestnuts, and a bit of campfire. The mouth is medium bodied and robust.

 

From a twelve ounce aluminum can, this brew is a nearly black brew, with a thin, whisky off-white head. The aroma has a deeply roasted, almost smoky, quality. The taste is dryish, with plenty of espresso notes. There is a bit of a plastic-phenol off flavor in the hind taste....like a home brew made with chlorinated water. Other than that note, this is a drinkable and flavorful brew.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I only stopped in here for one beer, and this is the one I chose. I am very happy that this was my choice.

The earlier poster compared it to Boulevard's Bully! Porter, which I remember enjoying, but can't remember all that well. What this beer reminded me of, in a very good way, was Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald porter.

This beer is exactly what a robust porter should be, to me. It was a very welcome surprise, and I look forward to trying all of this location's other beers in the future, not that they have many. In fact, they could stand to be a little bolder, as each of their beers hews very closely to basic styles (wheat, APA, stout, porter, amber). BUT, if each of their beers is as spot-on as this, that may be a blessing. It should be noted that they also have some very good guest taps that explore more extreme styles.

Taste: Cocoa and coffee, very creamy, a little bit of hop bitterness. It's a beer I could probably drink all night long.

16oz. served on nitro tap at Broadway Brewery

Poured a dark-ass brown. It wasn't black, though it was so dark that there wasn't any room for color variation. The creamy, nitro-tap-looking head was lion's pelt tan in color and laced like a sun of a gun.

This porter smells like a little brother to Boulevard's Bully! Porter. There was plenty of roasted malt bitter scents playing off of the earthy hops. Much more coffee bean roast aromas than dark chocolate. Maybe a touch of licorice as the beer warms. Nice stuff.

It tastes like a brother to Bully! Porter, too! What I LOVE about Bully! is found in this beer as well -- contrasting bitternesses. What I mean by this is that there is roasted malt bitterness mingling with hoppy bitterness. I love me a hoppy porter and this one is no exception. There is just enough coffee flavor in the malt to keep things deliciously interesting.

Mouthfeel? Nice. It was nitro-tap, which I hadn't had too many porters in this delivery format. It was obviously super-smooth. I think the creamy mouthfeel helped to accentuate the coffee notes at the expense of some of the hoppiness. It isn't to the beer's detriment, though. Drinkability is exceptional. It is like a gentler, smoother Bully! Porter. After half the pint I began to fantasize about spending a day alone with a growler of this porter (Broadway Brewery does growler sales, FYI).

This was one of my favorite beer surprises in a long time. This little porter from a little brewery beats the pants off of the vast majority of bottled porters from much bigger breweries in this country. I sincerely hope to be able to enjoy a pint of this porter every single time that I find myself in CoMo. I applaud Broadway Brewery; I see only positive things coming from them in the future.

Pours a dark black color. 1/4 inch head of a tan color. Decent retention and great lacing. Smells of roasted malt, sweet malt, chocolate, and some sweet dark fruit. Fits the style of an American Porter. Mouth feel is smooth and crisp with an average carbonation level. Tastes of slight hops, roasted malt, sweet malt, and a hint of sweet citrus. Overall, a great body, aroma, and blend (also not overlly sweet).