Trooper Red and Black Porter: 4.5 – The way you cam tell this is smoked is by how sweet it is without being sugary. It’s overall an okay beer, but if asked why you would want to drink it there are little reasons you could provide. Sure it’s interesting, but not desirable. This is part of a series, of which we’ve had the 666.
Price Average: $6
Website: https://www.robinsonsbrewery.com/
Oxbow Town Line Porter: 6.5 – that is a dark drink. While it certainly has gravitas and a bit if coffee to it this is a dark porter in terms of taste ans color. It’s like a coffee porter with a black ale. Sadly its not very drinkable like some black alea
Price Average: Name $8 draft
Website: http://oxbowbeer.com/
The Hum Low Frequency Porter: 7.0 – It is a delicious porter. It’s got the right amount of depth of flavor, it doesn’t lean too far in a single direction, it has an aftertaste that linger but it’s very muted to give it almost a clean finish. It’s certainly not standard due to how average porters are often like, but then it’s not exactly award winning either.
Price Average: The Hum Low Frequency Porter $8
Website: http://www.mystic-brewery.com/
Drayman’s Porter: 7.0 – While I can truly enjoy a very complex, or heavy, or even a truly coffee porter, it’s great when someone just makes a good porter. In truth this overall is closer to a 5, but the aftertaste is very enjoyable, and at the Berkshire cost it’s always the beer that makes even me have to truly decide over something new, and something good at a better price point.
Price Average: Drayman’s Porter $6
Coal Porter: 4.0 – So I’m beginning to wonder if they literally threw coal into the batch. Because going down this tastes like a nice standard porter, but that lingering aftertaste might as well be coal dust, like It’s almost eerie how akin to coal it is. It’s not exactly a bad porter overall unless you are a serious anti-charcoal fan.
Price Average: Coal Porter $10 for 6-pack
Website: http://www.atlanticbrewing.com/
Total Eclipse: 6.5 – I’m not a huge fan of what most companies do with Rye flavored beers, but I really like how well balanced the taste and flavors are here. My main complaint is that while not being heavy this doesn’t endear itself to wanting to drink more of it (low drinkability I guess)
Price Average: Name $10 for 4-Pack
Website: http://www.brewmasterjack.com/
Foolproof Raincloud: 4.5 – Fairly standard as far as porters go, and I’m not sure I would use the word robust here. I’ve actually had a rainy day today, and this is not what I would want to drink for the day.
Google Shop Average: Foolproof Raincloud $9 for 6-Pack
Website: http://www.foolproofbrewing.com/
Hill Farmstead Everett: 4.0 – This was part of a flight of pale ales, and sadly the IPA’s destroyed my palate. This however is just a sub average porter.
Google Shop Average: Hill Farmstead Everett $7
Website: http://hillfarmstead.com/
Barrel-Aged Framinghammer: 2.5 – Sorry but this is just too mellow and sweet to be enjoyed. Jack’s Abby is known for hops but you wouldn’t think so here. It’s not pure sugar like some other barrel aged beers – but damn.
Google Shop Average: Barrel-Aged Framinghammer $8
Website: http://jacksabbybrewing.com/
Atwater Brewery Vanilla Java Porter: 7.0 – Unlike a lot of other vanilla beers (and this may be the ‘Java’) the vanilla here actually tastes like vanilla, but does so in a way that it’s not gimmicky. As far as a vanilla porter goes, this is one of our favorites (but it does have to rank against other porters)
Google Shop Average: Atwater Brewery Vanilla Java Porter $10 for 6-Pack
Website: http://www.atwaterbeer.com/