Mudpuppy
Central Waters Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The on tap version of this beer is so creamy and good, but the bottle version is meh. Since most of you will be drinking the bottle version I'll go with that. Nice head, smells of sweet molasses and chocolate. Taste is watery and slightly bitter. After tastes is pale chocolate. Not quite a Guiness but its decent.

From the 2020 Advent calendar

Dark and roasty malts are spot on. Unlike the recent offerings from the calendar that added actual chocolate, this one tasted a bit like chocolate without needing to add it. It's right in the name, "chocolate malt"-- why add cacao nibs?
Nice hop profile kept the sweetness down, and rendered this a "proper" porter. At last!

Day 21 of the Beer Advent Calendar

Dark brown with a mocha head. Slight roasted malt chocolate is mixed well together. Refreshing yet still a porter. Don't normally choose provers if thirst is my goal gut Id grab one of these.

 

 

 

 

From the 12 oz can in a snifter. This solid little standard pours a
medium dark brown with tea highlights and a modest head of
fizzling foam that settles to a thin ring. Nose of dark roasted malts,
subtle coffee, subtle cocoa. Flavors follow the nose with faint char, cocoa,
subtle vanilla, dark cocoa, and earthy malts with subtle herbal notes. Decent
mouth feel; medium body, light carbonation, and a moderately dry yet lightly
watery finish.

Overall, decent after a hot day.

Cheers

Good tasting porter.
Look pours black with tannish head
Smell coffee notes
Taste dry, faint sweetness
Fell carbonated somewhat not overly
Overall enjoyable porter and would work well with dinner and enjoying a steak

The beer looks great, it is very dark and you can tell it's thick. It has a very rick caramel coffee and malt aroma. The taste is it's smell come to life, it has a great bite and just enough of the taste lingers in your mouth. Overall it is a great dark beer.

 

A basic would porter, nothing special, just a nice drinking beer. I usually get it in their Rickety sampler pack. One of their standard brews that I keep in rotation.

Can in trade with Tom, thanks for the opportunity!
Dark brown with a mocha head that persists.
Earthy chocolate and light roast with bits of dried fruit and seltzer.

 

 

Deep brown where light passes through the center of the glass. Lasting beige head but no lace, surprisingly.

Deep, darker chocolate nose. Good cream and malted sugar which reminds me of a chilled hot cocoa.

The cocoa flavor is powerful here. There's also the bitterness from Baker's chocolate. I do pick up some hop bitterness as well. Rich with lower carbonation. The aftertaste has some warming alcohol. Overall, a very nice Porter.

02/08/20 draft @ The Brew Kettle Hudson

From a 12 fl. oz. bottle with no date that I can ascertain. Sampled on Jan 26, 2020.

Handsome looking dark amber brown appearance with a modest and slowly diminishing tan colored head.

Appealing aroma of milk chocolate, ash, char, and perhaps a berry like fruity character.

Smooth medium mouthfeel.

A bit of chocolate in the taste but I am struck by the bolder bitterness that erupts at the end and lingers. Decently done.

Appearance: Pours a dark, black color with a light-tan head. SRM of 24. (3.75)

Aroma: Mild aromas of dark malt, molasses, and fresh paint upfront. Some faint caramel/toffee, and dark fruit, sweet fruitcake, french toast w/ syrup, caramel sweetened monkey-bread. Follows with a mild chocolate aromas. Minimal coffee, or roastiness. Very unique and unusual for a porter, but more brown malt, molasses, and paint phenols than chocolate aromas. . (4.00)

Flavor: Lighter on the flavor. More molasses, toffee/caramel & syrup. Slight red cherry, plum, and fig. Light with a slight bitterness. Finishes dry, but a nice sweetness lingers on the palate. Again, not much cocoa or roastedness. (3.75)

Feel: Light-bodied. Good carbonation. A decent amount of syrupy, caramel sweetness lingers on the palate. (4.00)

Compared to Bells Porter 3/4/21: Pours a slightly lighter color with a smaller head. More brown malt aromas/flavors. Less chocolate and cream. Drinks less like a porter and more to a bock.

Compared to Bent Paddle Black 3/11/21: Pours a similar color with a slightly lighter head. More brown malt and molasses. Less cocoa and airy espresso roast. Finishes sweeter and maltier. Similar malt strength, but less bitter so finishes maltier.

Overall: A different "porter". Faint and mild. Faint, but BROWN MALTS, MOLASSES, SYRUP/TOFFEE, and SYRUP flavors without being too sweet. Nice and dry. It drinks more similar to a German bock or Christmas Ale, ...but a very nice darker beer shall we say. (Final Rating: 3.79)
*Compare to a Bock beer*

 

Pours a light fizzy head with low retention, little lacing, dark cloudy brown colored

Nose light toasted and roasted malts, little caramel, cocoa, bit of coffee, becoming more fudgey chocolate

Taste brings roasted malt up front, burnt charred but not acrid, roasted coffee, little caramel and toasted malt, some dark chocolate cocoa in the background, medium bitterness that increases a bit on the drier finish, lingering roasted malt and very bitter cocoa

Mouth is med to fuller bod, magnum tingly carb

Overall not bad, basically a simple porter, not too complex but well done

Look - Black brown with a slight head and film
Smell - toasty sweet malts
Taste - about the same as the scent.
Feel - medium body with a medium light carb
Overall - standard but good porter

 

 

 

 

 

 

20190802
6pk - 12oz

Drank 5/3/14 @ Reggie's.

Brown hue.

Dark khaki head; minimal lace.

Mild cream & coffee nose.

Medium thick mouthfeel.

Cream flavor with a hint of coffee grounds; a hop bite on the lips.

Drinkable but plain.