First Strike Smoked Porter
Haymarket Beer Co. Pub & Brewery

- From:
- Haymarket Beer Co. Pub & Brewery
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Smoked Beer
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.81 | pDev: 23.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 06, 2014
- Added:
- Jan 06, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
A robust porter, brewed with 50% smoked malt from Best Malz in Germany and 10% chocolate malt from Faucett in England. Named in honor of the first organized strike to occur in the U.S. - June 2, 1786 by 26 brave Philadelphia Typographers.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Kimcor from Indiana
1.92/5 rDev -31.7%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
1.92/5 rDev -31.7%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Tastes like sitting by the fire. I've had worse. Tastes better than it smells- honestly smells like a bottle of liquid smoke. Cannot taste the 10% chocolate at all. Difficult to finish the 16 ounce variety. Would be good with a s'more. Not a good compliment to the Mercian waffles.
Jan 26, 2014
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