Lactose Porter
Hops & Grain Brewing
- From:
- Hops & Grain Brewing
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 16.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 24, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 31, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.71/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
RB transfer
Sep 24, 2025
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.53/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
2.53/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
Could've sworn I'd already reviewed this. Ran me $0.99 for a 12 fl oz can at a Total Wine.
APPEARANCE: Khaki head ~9cm in height. Head retention is pretty good at ~5-6 minutes.
Body is a dark ruby-brown - not quite the opaque black I expected, and the surprise isn't a pleasant one.
Looks okay for a porter.
AROMA: Brown malt, buried roast/carafa, floral hop aromatics, malted milk ball/Whoppers aromatics.
Not finding the chocolate malts, roasted barley, and dark malt sweetness the style tends to demand.
Aromatic intensity is moderately low.,
TASTE: Brown malt and lactose sugar is at its core, with much more subdued notes of carafa and floral hop notes trickling out.
One of the most simplistic shallow attempts at a porter I've ever tried. What lactose adds to a milk stout it fails to add to this porter. Very one-dimensional and boring.
TEXTURE: Inappropriately silky smooth. Medium-bodied. Well-carbonated. Wet. Unrefreshing.
This texture is ill-suited to the taste. Fails to coax out or accentuate specific flavours or to elevate the beer as a whole.
OVERALL: It's unclear what they were after with this premise, and its execution doesn't elucidate the matter. If they were trying to do to the porter what lactose sugar does to a stout in a milk stout, they failed. If they were trying to brew a great porter with heightened sweetness, they definitely failed. Neither much of a porter nor much of a lactose beer - just a sweet kilocalorie bomb with very little flavour. But not undrinkable.
Low C- (2.53) / BELOW AVERAGE
Mar 31, 2019APPEARANCE: Khaki head ~9cm in height. Head retention is pretty good at ~5-6 minutes.
Body is a dark ruby-brown - not quite the opaque black I expected, and the surprise isn't a pleasant one.
Looks okay for a porter.
AROMA: Brown malt, buried roast/carafa, floral hop aromatics, malted milk ball/Whoppers aromatics.
Not finding the chocolate malts, roasted barley, and dark malt sweetness the style tends to demand.
Aromatic intensity is moderately low.,
TASTE: Brown malt and lactose sugar is at its core, with much more subdued notes of carafa and floral hop notes trickling out.
One of the most simplistic shallow attempts at a porter I've ever tried. What lactose adds to a milk stout it fails to add to this porter. Very one-dimensional and boring.
TEXTURE: Inappropriately silky smooth. Medium-bodied. Well-carbonated. Wet. Unrefreshing.
This texture is ill-suited to the taste. Fails to coax out or accentuate specific flavours or to elevate the beer as a whole.
OVERALL: It's unclear what they were after with this premise, and its execution doesn't elucidate the matter. If they were trying to do to the porter what lactose sugar does to a stout in a milk stout, they failed. If they were trying to brew a great porter with heightened sweetness, they definitely failed. Neither much of a porter nor much of a lactose beer - just a sweet kilocalorie bomb with very little flavour. But not undrinkable.
Low C- (2.53) / BELOW AVERAGE
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