Yorkshire Porter
Queen City Brewery

 

Nice pouring beer, it’s dark brown, shows clarity on the edges, ample fluffy light brown head, settles to a nice cap with no lacing.

Nose is mostly chocolate, with some ashy and toffee character, maybe some wet earthy touch from the hops.

Taste is spot on for English and not American, it’s more malt driven with light bittersweet character; chocolate, coffee, soft lingering roast that borders on char; just an underlying sweetness pervades.

Light body, soft; maybe even a touch luscious, if that’s possible for a 5% beer; little bit of malt sweetness lingers on a moderately bitter and mostly dry beer.

Served on tap in a pint glass
Appearance - The beer is served a deep brown color with a small head of tan foam. The head fades fast leaving a trace of lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell - The aroma was toasty and toasty with some coffee and a bit of caramel. Some light cocoa and creme round it all out.
Taste- The taste starts toasty and toasty with a bit of coffee and a very light cocoa. The taste is overall dry with just a touch of caramel and vanilla. These tastes take the taste to the end, leaving one with a toasty, toasty, and lightly sweetened taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel - The body is medium with a moderate carbonation level. For the style it's OK making a easy drinker
Overall - An alright not overly sweet, easy drinking porter.

Draft. Tastes exactly like an American take of a dark English porter. Not bad, not super interesting.

This is a stellar English porter, nice and dark and roasty. You get plenty of the coffee flavor with just a bit of chocolate to avoid it being too bitter. It's 36 IBUs, which may be a touch high for a porter like this, but it worked just fine in the end. Not that many places even make a basic porter any more, so if you find this one and you like porters, make sure to give it a go.

 

Poured from a 12 oz can into a pint glass; no birth date. Pours dark black with minimal to no head. Sweet chocolate like smell on the nose with bittery water like backtaste. Decent.

 

 

This traditional style English Porter is underrated — perhaps a sign of our hop-heavy, high alcohol times. It’s appropriate to style in nearly every way, though my draft exhibited no head whatsoever. (It was served too cold, so perhaps this explains it.)

Had a single draft for seven dollars at Cornish Pastry in Boston. Have never heard of or tried a brew from these guys before. I have not had a porter for years, thought that this was pretty good.

 

Canned 2020/11/19
Pours a small tan fizzy head with low retention, touch of lacing, jet black color

Nose brings nice roasted malts and English toasted grainy malts, biscuity wafer cookie and toasted notes, a bit of dark chocolate, then getting more chocolate, a touch of fruity

Taste brings more of the dark British malts, toasted biscuity wafer cookie, lots more chocolate, cocoa, dark chocolate, nice roasted malts with a little coffee, a touch of baking spice, mild earthy spicy hop notes in the background with med-light bitterness, rich porter, finishes drier with more bitterness getting to the med level, spicy hops, more roast, and cocoa lingering

Mouth is med to fuller bod, a little creamy and rich, med to a bit lighter foamy carb

Overall solid English porter, seems pretty robust despite only 5% abv, nice British malt, good chocolate and roast, quite enjoyable

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a word: "meh". I was really anticipating something special from this small brewery in South Burlington, as they are just about the only one in the area that is not obsessed with IPA's, instead concentrating on the more classic European styles, porter being one of my all time favorites. Queen City's take on it is a big disappointment: watery, weak and wimpy. Add to that the surly folks who work there, one of whom seemed almost reluctant to serve us for some mysterious reason, and I won't be visiting them again.