Graham Cracker Porter
Denver Beer Co.

 

The smell is incredible, the mouth feel is very watery and the taste is flat and dry.
I wish the flavor was more in-line with the nose

Vanilla, smoke, spices, burnt brown sugar sweet porter.

12oz can. Poured out an opaque, jet-black color with a small, light brown head of bubbly foam. It left sudsy trails on the glass. It smelled of chocolate, graham cracker, toffee and some coffee. Sweet chocolate, toffee, roasted malt and hints of vanilla.

 

 

Denver Beer Co. "Graham Cracker Porter"
$8 / pint on tap @ Timberline Steaks & Grille, Denver, CO

Notes: Black in the full pint with ruby highlights when held to the light. Short head of tan foam. Decent enough head retention and lacing. Aroma of graham crackers and chocolate. It suggests brown sugar, vanilla, chocolate, and golden caramel. Not surprisingly, it tastes very much like it smells. It's more chocolatey but the brown sugar and vanilla remain. It's moderately bitter but balanced, and it finishes mostly dry and lingering. It's medium bodied and gently crisp-then-smooth. Overall I'm quite impressed with this. It's got enough Graham cracker character that it could serve as a dessert beer, and at the same time not so much that you couldn't have two or three of these in a row just hanging out with your friends.

LOOK: Pours black with some brown hues with a light brown tight head. Retention is decent as is the glass lace.
AROMA: Pretty sweet, also get some graham cracker, followed by coffee, and chocolate milk.
TASTE: Still sweet, chocolate milk more prominent in the taste than the graham crackers.
Overall too sweet for my pallet.

 

 

 

Coffee black with a short tan head.

This does indeed have a graham cracker nose, with a hint of milk chocolate. However, first taste is quite bitter and either ashy or woody.

Its cola feel is tingly crisp with a medium body that finishes semi-dry and kind of stinging, like cacao nib but more acidic and bitter, closer to burnt wood.

 

 

Definitely solid, malty and overall what I was looking for. However I'm not sure I'd get another sixer in the foreseeable future. So many others to try.

UPDATE: had this on tap recently and was a much better experience for some reason than the 6 pack I had, got some good sweet vanilla amd Graham cracker flavor. This was way better this time so I'm upping rating

 

 

 

From the 2020 Advent Calendar

I had high hopes. Nice dark color, sweet aroma.
The flavor is all sugar, with a weird industrial nut oil and vanilla adjunct. Cloyingly sweet, although I can see the graham cracker comparison.

Not for me, I'm afraid.

Day 15 on the beer advent calendar

Black, cappuccino colored foam, beautiful.
In the smell, a lot, but a lot, of cocoa and vanilla.
Same for the taste. A bit too sweet, almostr pastry. But not bad.
Light body, light toasted, peanut butter.
A bit boring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On-tap at Terminal Bar, Denver, CO

A: The beer appears black when viewed from afar and when held up to a light there are traces of dark red near the edges of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of vanilla are present inn the nose along with notes of graham crackers.
T: The taste follows the smell, although the graham crackers are stronger than those of the vanilla. Notes of dark malts are also perceptible.
M: It feels medium-bodied and a little smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is a lit more flavorful than other porters with all of the graham crackers in the malt bill.

Serving type: on-tap

 

 

Presentation: 12 oz. can with the canning date printed on the bottom. Served in a Rastal Craft Master Grand.

Appearance: The pale tan, two finger head stays around for a while and leaves behind a lot of lacing that covers the entire glass. It's a deep, dark brown, almost black color.

Smell: It's a warm and sweet scent of graham crackers, milk chocolate, brown sugar and a hint of coffee.

Taste: There's some bready, graham cracker at first and a hint of milk chocolate and sugary marshmallow. It finishes with an almost imperceptible hint of bitterness in the background of dark chocolate and roasted malt.

Mouthfeel: It's smooth, slightly creamy and medium to light bodied so it stays easy to drink. Carbonation is medium, it's not cloying at all and it finishes dry.

Overall A rich, easy to drink porter that's sweet but not in an overwhelming way. There's balance between the different elements and the 12 oz. can serving size is just right.

 

 

 

 

On draught at Frontier Brewing and Taproom.

It pours almost black, got some red highlights, decent head of foam and lacing.

I get a cookie smell, I guess it is graham
Crackers. Pretty much over powers the Porter qualities. Little roasted malt peeks through.

Taste wise, I do get more roasted malt than in the smell. Graham cracker is an okay flavour but it wears on me as the session goes on. Even in a 6 ounce taster glass.

Good mouthfeel so there's that.

Pretty gimmicky brewery.