Coal Banks Porter
Coulee Brew Co.
- From:
- Coulee Brew Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 2.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2026
- Added:
- Aug 28, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Valemount 17/7 2018. 47,3 cl can from Aligra Wine & Liquor in West Edmonton Mall. Serious-looking can with old photograph of a couple of miners and everything kept in dark green somber tones.
Pours deep opaque Maroon with a quite big off-white head. Quite stable. Settles asa 4 cm thick blanket of slowly bubbeling foam. Clinging to the side of the glass. Substantial lacing.
Aroma is dark and heavy with coffee. Dark chocolate, vanilla, brown sugar, Tobacco. Not so intense as I expected. Might be a result of the blanket of foam.
Very Low carbonation. Thick, creamy texture.
Flavor is heavy sweet but followed and balanced by a fairly strong coffee bitterness. Aftertaste is mostly sweet with some bitter stabs. Lingering.
Solid porter with a nice coffee bitterness.
Feb 14, 2026Pours deep opaque Maroon with a quite big off-white head. Quite stable. Settles asa 4 cm thick blanket of slowly bubbeling foam. Clinging to the side of the glass. Substantial lacing.
Aroma is dark and heavy with coffee. Dark chocolate, vanilla, brown sugar, Tobacco. Not so intense as I expected. Might be a result of the blanket of foam.
Very Low carbonation. Thick, creamy texture.
Flavor is heavy sweet but followed and balanced by a fairly strong coffee bitterness. Aftertaste is mostly sweet with some bitter stabs. Lingering.
Solid porter with a nice coffee bitterness.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
16oz pint at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. Not the coffee flavoured version, new duplicate-detecting software code.
This beer appears a solid black, with prominent orange cola highlights, and one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly light brown head, which leaves some defrosting back windshield lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of slightly soured cereal grain, a further caramel sweetness, gentle cafe-au-lait, musty dollar store chocolate, a hint of black licorice root, and ephemeral earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, spoiled milk, still wan cocoa powder notes, some free-range ashiness, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and musky verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite somnambulist in its bland frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice aerosol creaminess creeping in once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt pretty much escorting one out the back door.
Overall, this is a genial enough American Porter, the attendant flavours doing well to come out and play with my tastebuds. Worthy of a try - I'm just glad to get the opportunity to try this one without having to drive 600-odd kilometers from my own back yard.
Aug 28, 2017This beer appears a solid black, with prominent orange cola highlights, and one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly light brown head, which leaves some defrosting back windshield lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of slightly soured cereal grain, a further caramel sweetness, gentle cafe-au-lait, musty dollar store chocolate, a hint of black licorice root, and ephemeral earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, spoiled milk, still wan cocoa powder notes, some free-range ashiness, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and musky verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite somnambulist in its bland frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice aerosol creaminess creeping in once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt pretty much escorting one out the back door.
Overall, this is a genial enough American Porter, the attendant flavours doing well to come out and play with my tastebuds. Worthy of a try - I'm just glad to get the opportunity to try this one without having to drive 600-odd kilometers from my own back yard.
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