Vanilla Bean Porter
Prohibition Pig

Straight ahead porter with nice vanilla. Pretty good and met expectations of the description.

 

 

 

 

 

On tap at The Prohibition Pig in Waterbury, VT.

This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like sweet and authentic vanilla, with a hint of smoke, some creamy chocolate, light coffee, and roast.

This is a tad lightly flavored, but it still tastes pretty good. The vanilla is pretty well done, with a light sweetness, and no artificial sweetness or flavoring at all. The base porter is a little boring, just a bit of semi-sweet chocolate sort of flavor.

Because it's fairly lightly flavored, it's way more drinkable than it would normally be, so that's at least a silver lining here. There's a nice creaminess here as well.

This is a fun little beer. Nothing to knock your socks off, but well done.

 

 

 

 

 

On tap at the Vermont Brewers Festival

 

 

Half pour at the brewery. Brown color made me think they switched up order, but one drink showed the vanilla goodness.

 

 

Half pint at Pro Pig. The appearance was a nice dark brown color with a slim foamy little head that dissipated at a nice pace leaving some light spider web lacing running here and there around the glass. The smell started off with roasty smooth coffee, cocoa beans and balancing in was the vanilla. The flavor was basically the same with the sweetness of the vanilla bean coming forth just a tad more than in the smell. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sipping to sessionable quality about it. Carbonation runs fairly light allowing a subtle sweet to roasty notes to engrave their mark on my tongue. Overall, I say this was a pretty good porter showing the creativity of the brewer to bring in something slightly different. Nice job, I’d have again.