Left Hand Black Jack Porter

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

12oz bottle from College Liquors
Pours clear dark brown with lots of floaters (yeast?), small beige head and some lacing. Aroma of milk chocolate, roasted coffee and vanilla. Taste of roasted malts, sweet caramel, chocolate and ashes
A good solid beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

12 oz bottle with a bottling date of 04/20/05. Didn’t notice how old this was until I got it home (typical ‘wanna be’ a beer geek maneuver). Poured hazy dark brown with zero head. The aroma is assertive with sweet molasses soaked dark fruit, toffee, roasted malts and some grainy malts. The taste is like a weaker version of the Rogue Imperial Stout. I get dark fruit, molasses and toffee. The porter like roasted and burnt malts taste like they’ve been muted with age. Still tasty though. In the aftertaste I notice that some chocolate joins in with the rest of the dark fruit and sweet molasses notes.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

12 oz brown bottle dated 12/06. In the glass it is very dark brown and nearly opaque. Has an off white light tannish brown head that immediately fades to ring around the inside of the glass. Pop the lid and you get a pleasant beery uncooked rising bread dough yeasty aroma, with some chocolate milk mixed in. Very nice impressionable smell turn primarily into chocolate milk once it is poured into the glass. Medium low fiss carbonation that is friendly and easy to appreciate. Chocolate smell continues with the first tastes. The chocolates fade to an interesting roastyness that is welcomed. Finish is building mild to medium roasty malt bitterness that is well controlled. Overall a good example of a decent dark beer. The finish could be a little more mannered but that thought leaves my head after a few minutes. The chocolate aromas continue strong up to the very end.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

15 CL tasting glass at ’24 uur van maastricht’, darker beer, aromas was coffee, chocolate and caramel, taste was good, overall a decent beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

35,5cl bottle at La Casa de la Cerveza, Madrid. Pours very dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma of roasted malt with chocolate and hints of dried fruits. Finishes lightly dry with a light bitterness. Well balanced. Decent porter. (2012-08-16)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Near black pour, tight sustained head, ample droopy lacing. Roasted malts, hint of coffee and cocoa, slight fruitiness, then a nice earthy and slightly spicy hops presence in the end. Very nice Porter.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

This one is a winner and under two dollars. Pours deep dark brown with no head. The aroma is sweet with malt and chocolate notes. The mouthfeel is rich and full. The taste has a balanced hop,malt and chocolate flavors. Another fine beer by Left Hand .

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Solid porter...had the nitro, cask, and co2 versions...all good, nitro the fav. Smooth as hell, pretty to look at. Light on the palate but with a more than adequate malted milk chocolate and roasted malt flavor.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

pours a dark brown with an off white mocha like foam which leaves plenty of lacing down the glass. The armoa is of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, and vanilla emerge as a very nice aroma. The taste is bitter, unsweetened coffee flavor upfront, giving way to milk chocolate, burnt sugar, and dry cocoa. A bit of sweet vanilla comes out as it warms. The roasted malts and a ghost like hop provide enough bitterness to balance the beer. The mouthfeel is full bodied, velvety smooth, good level of moderate carbonation, lingering coffee and chocolate flavor. Note Stouts and Porters are my least favorite beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Shared bottle at local tasting. 5.8% ABV. Black colour, moderate beige head. Malty aroma, notes of caramel and chocolate, mild roasty notes. The flavour has much the same elements as the aroma, but is a bit too sweet.