Brooklyn Smoked Porter
Kelham Island Brewery

Not like BSF, I didn't have the luck to taste this beer on cask during both visits to "Fat Cat", Kelham Island's brewery tap in Sheffield. Instead I picked up this bottle there, brought straight from the cellar for me by the landlady. At 6.5%abv., there's no freshness info. printed on the bottle/label, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.

A: pours a nearly black hue, topped with a thick fluffy tan head hissing and dissipating rather fast to a thin cap; quite lively in carbonation.
S: juicy and sweet malty overall... lots of chocolate malts, gristy black malts, date-jam, roast nuts, sweet liquidy black sugar and treacles, backed by a flow of flagrant hops and a subdued smell of smokiness. Very well-crafted, although the "smoked" theme falls a bit short.
T: rather light-bodied, semi-sweet dark maltiness prevails upfront... quietly developing at the back is a mildly dry and bitter flavour of charred walnuts and ground licorice-roots... while the aftertaste sees more dark chocolates and a mildly sour tinge of coffee-beans in action, threading through the foretaste from behind... a firmly dry and slightly earthy hoppyness, and smoked-nutty bitter palate stay until the very end of tasting, prolonging the enjoyment of this black nectar by a mile~~ BTW, alc. is nowhere to be found for this 6.5%abv. strong porter...
M&D: softly-carbonated and pretty clean on the mouthfeel for a porter, and medium-bodied for its rich flavour, although the mouthfeel could've been softer if it was bottle-conditioned, I guess. Overall, despite rather subdued smokiness, this is a consistently good quality and delicious porter all the same. I really wish to taste it on cask during my next visit to Fat Cat next month~~