12 oz bottle. Difficult to date this but I have had it for quite some time.

Pour is a dark chestnut brown with a creamy head with decent retention and lace.

The nose here seems really quite green and fresh. Odd, considering both the style and the age of this beer.

Tastes have some decent leather notes. Light coffee followed by some significant bitterness. This is where the hop notes kick in, and the beer goes fully ‘American Porter’. Interesting beer for me, since it gives a fairly decent dose of what I want in a porter – creamy body and good depth – but it also its some bitter, hoppy notes which is not at all what I want in Porter, but is of course, typically American in style.

Definitely more black coffee in the second half and the finish and aftertaste. Plenty of roasty smoke rounds out the beer. I’m very surprised at how bitter and hoppy this is, given the age.

Not much here for me I’m afraid, but if you want a bitter, hoppy porter you will get that here, along with some good depth. Not my thing at all.