Prince Street Porter
Our Town Brewery
- From:
- Our Town Brewery
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 25, 2020
- Added:
- Sep 14, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Our house Porter is named after the street we reside on. Big charges of chocolate malt give this beer a nice bitter, dark chocolate flavor complemented by some residual sweetness from a higher mash temperature.
Hops: Willamette; Malts: Pilsner, Chocolate, Oats, Caramel, Roasted Barley; Yeast: Chico.
Hops: Willamette; Malts: Pilsner, Chocolate, Oats, Caramel, Roasted Barley; Yeast: Chico.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.04/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
In what is beCANming a weekly tradition for me, I stopped by on my day off from work at the local USPS P&DC & picked up a couple of Crowlers for my CANsumption, review & rating. I was especially interested in doing a back-to back CANparison of their two extant Porters & this marks the first of the two.
From the Crowler: "1 Quart (32 fl oz)".
We used to score quarts as kids a block away, on the other side of the street, from the Little Dutch Café! Man, this all takes me back.
I Crack!ed open the vent of this massive CAN/Crowler, only to get an equally massive fingertip spritz!
I CAN't really fault them, though, as I used to overfill Crowlers to-go while working as a barback at Columbia Kettle Works (2nd Gear - CKW2G). You do not want to seal oxygen into the head space when seaming the lid into place & so an overfill is required.
I then CANtinued with a steady, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. Crowlers are tough since the vent is a) bigger & b) sits further back so dribbling is a real CANcern. I pulled this one off well & got two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, deep-tan/light-brown head with very good retention for my efforts. Color was Very Dark Brown to Black/Opaque (SRM = > 34, < 44) with garnet highlights at the edges. Nose was chocolaty, as advertised, but with a slight tang. It made me think more of a traditional Porter -English as a result. Hmm. I added the beer so I shall ask the brewer next week regarding a possible ChANge. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was of sweet/milk chocolate, plus anise & treacle, acCANting for the tang on the nose. Hmm. I did not taste hops at all, which is the hallmark of a Porter- American & so I may have misidentified it. 8=( I really liked the tanginess of the taste, keeping me interested throughout. It was not bitter, per se, but I understood what they were talking about in the Notes. Definitely chocolaty, but I CANnot agree on "bitter", although "dark" is reasonable. I argue for "tangy" over bitter & whether it was intentional or not, it really came off as a more traditional iteration of the style. Finish was bittersweet, making it semi-dry. This was a quite tasty interpretation of a Porter. YMMV.
Sep 25, 2020From the Crowler: "1 Quart (32 fl oz)".
We used to score quarts as kids a block away, on the other side of the street, from the Little Dutch Café! Man, this all takes me back.
I Crack!ed open the vent of this massive CAN/Crowler, only to get an equally massive fingertip spritz!
I CAN't really fault them, though, as I used to overfill Crowlers to-go while working as a barback at Columbia Kettle Works (2nd Gear - CKW2G). You do not want to seal oxygen into the head space when seaming the lid into place & so an overfill is required.
I then CANtinued with a steady, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. Crowlers are tough since the vent is a) bigger & b) sits further back so dribbling is a real CANcern. I pulled this one off well & got two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, deep-tan/light-brown head with very good retention for my efforts. Color was Very Dark Brown to Black/Opaque (SRM = > 34, < 44) with garnet highlights at the edges. Nose was chocolaty, as advertised, but with a slight tang. It made me think more of a traditional Porter -English as a result. Hmm. I added the beer so I shall ask the brewer next week regarding a possible ChANge. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was of sweet/milk chocolate, plus anise & treacle, acCANting for the tang on the nose. Hmm. I did not taste hops at all, which is the hallmark of a Porter- American & so I may have misidentified it. 8=( I really liked the tanginess of the taste, keeping me interested throughout. It was not bitter, per se, but I understood what they were talking about in the Notes. Definitely chocolaty, but I CANnot agree on "bitter", although "dark" is reasonable. I argue for "tangy" over bitter & whether it was intentional or not, it really came off as a more traditional iteration of the style. Finish was bittersweet, making it semi-dry. This was a quite tasty interpretation of a Porter. YMMV.
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