Pot & Kettle
Trillium Brewing Company

Pours a dark, dark brown color with a small tan head and very light lacing.

Smells and tastes of toasted malt, chocolate and coffee with a lightly bitter and boozy warm finish.

Medium heavy body with light carbonation. Lush , smooth mouthfeel.

This is a very tasty, semi sweet and semi bitter sipper,

 

 

Outstanding porter with excellent complexity, good looks, and fine nose. On the chewier side for 7.5%, flavors are heavy black coffee with accompanying notes/hints of dark chocolate, vanilla, graham cracker, molasses, smoke, caramel, toffee, faint faint hints of dark fruits. Again, coffee is the main player obviously and many of these other flavors take some thinking, but most are there. I do think the coffee needs to be dialed back a touch (taste only 4), but I appreciate the aggressive nature of this flavor in this beer. Top tier

Poured a dark chocolate color with a 2F head in Stone English pint glass.

The coffee is a bit too intense for the style, I would have preferred a less intense, mild, and aromatic coffee. As the beer warms up, the coffee is less intense. The look, MF work for the style. Retweaking the recipe would make beer more enjoyable.

Excellent beer which could improve with a different lighter coffee choice.

 

 

 

Picked up a 16 oz can from the Blue Door Bottleshop in Hendersonville 1-27-23 for $9.00. Canned 1-13-23; consumed 12-5-23. Cold stored since purchase.

Beer poured dark brown with a nice long lasting tan head.

Nose has notes of toasted and roasted malts and a hint of chocolate and dark fruit.

Taste is really nice; the malt base gives me notes of chocolate with a touch of raisins. Finishes nicely balanced with sufficient hopping and no hints of astringency.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied with each sip being smooth and creamy.

Overall a really good porter, one of the better ones i have had in a while.

A: Pours a clear but opaque jet black in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and faint dark amber + dark chestnut brown + dark cola brown colored highlights. The beer has a three finger all dense sudsy foamy tan head that slowly reduces to a large patch of medium thick film covering a little more than 75% of the surface of the beer and a medium thick ring at the edges of the glass. Light amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate to strong aromas of roasted + dark + caramel + oat malts with light amounts of dark fruit (cherry + raisin + date) sweetness. Light to moderate aromas of earthy hops. Hints of coffee + chocolate.

T: Upfront there are moderate to strong flavors of roasted + dark + caramel + oat malts with light amounts of dark fruit (cherry + raisin + date) sweetness. That is followed by hints of coffee + chocolate. Finally there are light to moderate flavors of earthy hops. Moderate amounts of lingering roasty bitterness.

M: Slightly heavier than medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Smooth, almost creamy with a moderate amount of dryness in the finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a pleasantly creamy + dry mouthfeel. Enjoyable with lots of complexity to the malt aromas + flavors without much sweetness.

Another selection from my mixed 12 pack from Trilium’s 10th Anniversary free shipping offer!

L- Jet black.

S- Roasted coffee and malt.

T- Rich complex malt and coffee flavors
with a subtle toffee flavor.

F- Smooth mouthfeel with a creamy and
slightly tannic taste.

O- A stellar oatmeal stout!

 

By far, one of the best beers that I’ve ever had. No need to mention Kate Upton, Eva Green, or Sanna Marrin - oh, wait… I don’t know, and I almost don’t want to. But here I am - eating my morning porridge as if I’m on LSD. Am I there? I think I am.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dark brown, tall beige head that falls to a thin foamy layer. Looks great.

Smells milk chocolate, brown sugar and toffee, oats, nutty, brown bread, light vanilla and a touch of coffee, a little dark fruit but not much at first. Builds some fruitiness as it warms. Nicely balanced.

There is a lot of chocolate in the taste, but the party doesn't end there. There is a lot going on, more than I can describe. But the highlights are brown sugar, brown bread, fruity raisin, nutty notes, toasty oats, and a decent level of bitterness. This is a well-designed and nicely executed beer.

Smooth and slick mouth feel. Restrained carbonation, medium bodied. There is a bit of a chalky feel on the end. Creamy, but no lingering sweetness despite the big chocolate flavors.

I rather like this one. It is an enjoyable drinker that's as complicated as you want it to be.