Today I am very excited to try this Smoked Porter made by the Highlander Brew Company out of South River, Ontario. As you may have gathered from previous posts, I love black beers and this one is very very black. It's a hefty 6.5% so wear your big boy pants if you plan on tackling a few of these.
It look great in the glass, but I cannot judge a beer on looks alone. It's tasting time.
And that's why I love black beer. It's so good. It starts off with the toasted malt flavours a stout/porter connoisseur would expect and heads right into a dark coffee flavour. Now where a guy might expect a bitter after taste, there's no bitterness to be found anywhere. Instead there's a lingering taste of smoke, most likely why it's called smoked porter. It's really good all the way around.
I'm almost certain a whole bunch of these beers travelling through the various mysterious systems of my body that keep me alive would lead to some great memories of the beginning of the night and leave lots of blank spots for the rest of my adventure. I would most definitely wake up with a nasty hangover and the shameful remains of street meat on my shoes. I heard the expression once of a bear coming into your room while you slept and beating the crap out of you, emptying your wallet and crapping in your mouth to describe a hangover. This beer is bear bait.
Smoke porters are best served in a standard pint glass. Mine has hockey players on it, but any pint glass will do.
My rating: 10/10. It's really good.
My lovely wife is my second sipper and generally likes porters to a greater degree than some other beers (I'm looking at you IPA's), but she wasn't a fan of the smoke finish.
My wife's rating: 5.5/10
There you have it, friends. Smoked Porter by Highlander Brew Co in South River, Ontario is well worth a trip to South River or your local LCBO or equivalent. It's dark and smooth and oh so delicious. Check out southriverbrewing.ca for more from the fine brewers up in South River, Ontario.
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