Defensive French Toast
Divine Barrel Brewing
- From:
- Divine Barrel Brewing
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Robust Porter
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 13.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 22, 2026
- Added:
- Jan 10, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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A robust porter fermented with Madagascar vanilla, Vermont maple syrup, Saigon cinnamon and coffee. We took our Defensive Pancake base and turned into French toast in a glass. Drink with breakfast!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CBlack85 from South Carolina
3.69/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 16 oz can into a New Belgium Globe Glass
The beer pours an dark brown (nearly black) with a huge dense tan head that slowly recedes leaving behind a thin cap and very little lacing
The aroma is maple syrup, vanilla, roasted malts, and coffee. A little milder than I had anticipated
The flavor, like the nose, is maple syrup, vanilla, and coffee. There is also a hint of cinnamon. Medium bodied and moderately carbonated, the beer is slick on the tongue and lingers on the palate.
Overall the beer is good, but could stand to be just a bit bolder
Feb 05, 2026The beer pours an dark brown (nearly black) with a huge dense tan head that slowly recedes leaving behind a thin cap and very little lacing
The aroma is maple syrup, vanilla, roasted malts, and coffee. A little milder than I had anticipated
The flavor, like the nose, is maple syrup, vanilla, and coffee. There is also a hint of cinnamon. Medium bodied and moderately carbonated, the beer is slick on the tongue and lingers on the palate.
Overall the beer is good, but could stand to be just a bit bolder
Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
2.7/5 rDev -26.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.7/5 rDev -26.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
I’m a sucker for maple syrup in any form. I’d snort it if I could. This is easier, in liquid 16 oz. cans.
Porter black. Not much for aroma – light vanilla, malts. Modest.
Defensive French Toast begs the questions, where’d all them ingredients go? This tastes like a slightly sweet porter; even the usually overbearing cousin cinnamon is muted & scarce showing. Thin as is appropriate for its weight class.
Meh. Highly mediocre with one more ding for advertising stuff that I can’t taste. Sub-par.
Apr 02, 2022Porter black. Not much for aroma – light vanilla, malts. Modest.
Defensive French Toast begs the questions, where’d all them ingredients go? This tastes like a slightly sweet porter; even the usually overbearing cousin cinnamon is muted & scarce showing. Thin as is appropriate for its weight class.
Meh. Highly mediocre with one more ding for advertising stuff that I can’t taste. Sub-par.
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