Golden Ticket
Mile Wide Beer Co.

 

 

 

From the 16 oz can in a snifter. This solid little porter pours a rugged
brownish black with a thick big bubbled brwon head that quickly dissipates
to a thin ring. Nose of dark cocoa, coffee notes, roast, and light cream amongst
layers of char. Flavors surpass the nose with dark chocolate, char, cream, deep
roast, coffee, subtle dark berry nuances, and toffee touches. Medium verging
on medium full mouth feel, smooth, lightly creamy, light carbonation, and
a bittersweet malt finish.

Of note, with warmth some marshmallow cream shows.

Overall, solid.

Cheers

Pours deep black in color. Head is tan and mostly dissipates, but leaves a slight ring around top of beer. Nose is similar to cocoa powder or cola. Taste is as expected chocolate, but very soft. Good Porter.

Single can from Party Town.
Obvious chocolate flavor and just as much coffee flavor. Subtle bitter sweetness.
I like it a lot because it is not over flavored like many others examples of this style.

Going old school with their chocolate flavored porter, Mile Wide Beer avoids the pastry, dessert and cake inspired flavors that blanket todays beer landscape and create a nuanced dark ale that's easy, firm and quite welcoming on the palate. And that's the golden ticket to making drinkable dark beer.

Pouring dark brown and crowning with a frothy mocha foam, Golden Ticket leads with a more chocolaty than usual scent of coffee, nuttiness, toast and caramel. And its those caramel undertones that set a malty tone for sweetness.

Bolder flavors of heavy toast, coffee, cocoa and campfire adorn the middle palate with hints of vanilla bringing a softer sweetness to the cocoa for a creamy chocolate flavor that hinges on bittersweetness. With a moderate hop bitterness, its woodsy taste informs the coffee character of grain for a more cocoa-heavy impression in the beer's waning moments.

Full bodied but far from cloying or difficulty, this Ticket finishes roasty, slightly roasty and clearly bittersweet with a linger of cocoa, cream and coffee. Its a somber porter that pays homage to how chocolate porters were made a decade ago.