Porters

NoDa Coco Loco Cans Hit the Market

NoDa CoCo Loco cans have just hit the market. This is the fourth can offering from NoDa.

NoDa Coco Loco is a porter, brewed with toasted coconut (toasted in house.) Combine that with chocolate and brown malts, and you have a Continue Reading →

5 Rabbit & Cigar City Team Up on El Bizarrón

Cuban cuisine is the theme for this 5 Rabbit Cerveceria (Chicago, IL) and Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) collaboration – El Bizarrón. What better than 2400 pounds of plantains?

The plantains were hand peeled, sliced and caramelized, alongside the addition of dark malts Continue Reading →

It’s Half Acre Chub Step Time Again

Half Acre Beer Company’s (Chicago) portly beer, Chub Step is back for Halloween. (As if that label wasn’t a dead give away.) Chub Step is a chocolate-y porter. Perfect this time of year.

The portly friend is back – and this year Continue Reading →

Posted in New Releases, NoDa Brewing

NoDa Coco Loco Cans Hit the Market

NoDa CoCo Loco cans have just hit the market. This is the fourth can offering from NoDa.

NoDa Coco Loco is a porter, brewed with toasted coconut (toasted in house.) Combine that with chocolate and brown malts, and you have a medal winning beer.

Deep, rich and delicious. This robust porter has a base of Chocolate and Brown malts for a stunningly deep rich color with ruby highlights. The slight bitterness from American chocolate is balanced with the sweet odotes of organic coconut we toast onsite at the brewery. It was even awarded the Great American Beer Festival Silver Medal in 2012.

NoDa Coco Loco is now available in draft and in 16oz cans.

Style: Porter (w/ Coconut)
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft. Year Round.

6.2% ABV

Read more: Canned Craft Beer

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Belgium

New Belgium To Re-release Lips of Faith Cocoa Mole

New Belgium plans on revisiting a past Lips of Faith offering again in the near future –Cocoa Mole. The dark and spicy offering joined the Lips of Faith series back in 2012.

The base beer is a porter, brewed with cocoa and chili peppers, based on Spanish mole sauce.

Say hola to a spiced up ale full of cocoa, and ancho, guajillo, chipotle peppers, but don’t fear the head, because plenty of caramel and chocolate malts bring a smooth, complex flavor, scents of cinnamon when poured will have a saying “idle for mole!”

Style: Porter (w/ Cocoa, Chilies)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: Second release, TBA

9% ABV

Read more: Lips of Faith

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Mother's Brewing Company, Seasonal Return

Mother’s Squashed Chocolate Pumpkin Porter, Year 2

Mothers Brewing (Springfield, MO) Squashed Chocolate Pumpkin Porter is back for a second year. What started as an experiment (Thing 1 & Thing 2 Series) prompted Mother’s to promote the beer to seasonal. Another boozy round cometh.

Mother’s Squashed Chocolate Pumpkin Porter is brewed with cocoa nibs, pumpkin pie spices, locally grown butternut squash and pumpkins and aged in rum barrels.

“Pumpkin beers are one of our favorites styles and we knew we wanted to add another one to our lineup,” said Jeff Schrag, Founder. “Squashed is complex and yet extremely balanced. The flavor really compliments the weather as we move further into the fall season and people enjoy outdoor fall activities like bonfires, barbeques, and camping. We’re excited to get this beer out into the market again for our fans to enjoy.”

Squashed Chocolate Pumpkin Porter is available in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: Porter (w/ Chocolate, Butternut Squash, Spices. Partially Barrel Aged. Rum.)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Seasonal release.
Distribution: MO, Northwest AR, Little Rock, AR

7.4% ABV, 28 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, Cigar City Brewing, Don't Miss This, New Releases

5 Rabbit & Cigar City Team Up on El Bizarrón

Cuban cuisine is the theme for this 5 Rabbit Cerveceria (Chicago, IL) and Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) collaboration – El Bizarrón. What better than 2400 pounds of plantains?

The plantains were hand peeled, sliced and caramelized, alongside the addition of dark malts for a rich base. The end result is a complex, flavorful porter that is labor of love.

El Bizarrón is the hero of a Cuban folktale. A simple worker who outsmarted the devil, winning his freedom as well as a load of silver, kicked to the heavens loaded on his faithful burro, way up high where he knew the devil couldn’t follow.

Bottles of 5 Rabbit/Cigar City El Bizarrón will be available at the 5 Rabbit taproom this Saturday. 2 bottle limit.

Style: Porter (w/ Plantains)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: 10/25/14

8.8% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Releases, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Smoked Porter with Chocolate Orange Peel Launches Today

Stone Brewing Co. (Escondido, CA) is releasing a new edition of Smoked Porter this month – Smoked Porter with Chocolate and Orange Peel.

In a sea of successful Smoked Porter variants like Smoked Porter with Vanilla Bean, and Smoked Porter with Chipotle Peppers, the brewery eyed fall edition – Stone Smoked Porter – Autumn Addition Edition.

Herbs, spices, and gourds from Stone Farms were going to be added to the porter, but eventually, they landed on chocolate and orange.

Stone Smoked Porter with Chocolate and Orange Peel features the peat smoke flavor of the smoked porter, with orange peel and cacao nibs. Available for a limited time in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: Smoked Porter (w/ Cacao Nibs, Orange Peel)
Hops: Magnum, Mt. Hood

Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft.
Distribution: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, and Puerto Rico

Arrival: 10/20/14

5.9% ABV, 53 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Half Acre Brewing

It’s Half Acre Chub Step Time Again

Half Acre Beer Company’s (Chicago) portly beer, Chub Step is back for Halloween. (As if that label wasn’t a dead give away.) Chub Step is a chocolate-y porter. Perfect this time of year.

The portly friend is back – and this year he’s tugged and squeezed his chunk into production just in time for our favorite night of the year. Throbbing chocolate, sateen mouth feel and nobility, curve their way through your darkest parts – the perfect primer for mischief and sweet treats.

The brewery loves Halloween, so in addition to the release of Chub Step, the brewery is holding an on-going costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, and even Halloween brewery tours. Check that out here.  Half Acre Chub Step returns October 17th.

Style: Porter
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft.
Release: 10/17/14

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Hess Brewing, New Releases

Hess Brewing Marks New Facility’s 1 Year Annivesary

Hess Brewing kicked off brewing on their new 30 barrel brew system, in their new production facility in San Diego. First on the system was their Brunus Robustus Porter.

Some of the batch was syphoned off into Elmer T. Lee Bourbon barrels. After 13 months, it’s ready for release.

Hess Barrel Aged Brunus Robustus Porter will be available in limited 22oz bombers.

Style: Porter (Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: TBA

 

by Reid Ramsay