Evolution Craft Lucky 7 Porter
Black w/garnet highlights, this Porter is rich & full flavored with notes of chocolate, coffee & smoke. 24 IBU’S, 5.8% ABV.
3.4
170 reviews
Salisbury, United States
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Bottle from Chevy Chase Wine and Liquors. Dark brown body with tan head. Nose is malts, caramel, straw. Taste is chocolate, malts, sweetness. Some smoke and syrupy texture. Warming finish. Pretty good.
Where: Old Line Fine Wine Spirits & Bistro.
How: 12 ounce bottle.
Appearance: Pours a solid black color with 2 finger head.
Aroma: Pours a solid black color with 2 finger head.
Taste: dark roasted malt and dark roasted coffee, very strong coffee.
Palate: pretty thin with medium carbonation.
Overall: Not my favorite Evolution beer, its interesting.
on tap at Crafty’s Taproom in Northeast Phila - nice dark color. Good portery aroma. Flavor ok - expected a little more.
Mildly creamy. Small bitter, some soda carb, not too roasty. Very nice nose. Mild sweet. Easy drinking.
Cask at GBBF ’15, day 3, 13/08/15.
Extremely dark mahogany brown with a moderate off white covering.
Nose is light wood, chocolate, spice, dark malts.
Taste comprises toffee, wood, chcocolate biscuit, light spice, darl fruit rinds.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
Ok.
half pint from cask at GBBF. dark brown with a thin off white head. aroma is roasted malts, hazelnuts, brown bread and caramel. taste is sweet malts, full nutty body. finishes slightly fruity - prunes, dates and raisin.
Good stuff. Pours deep brown, little head. Aroma is full of coffee and smoke. Medium bodied, smooth finish.
Cj beer festival. Taste is Dark fruit. Raisin, plum. Good easy drinking porter. A touch flat on the feel.
Bottle into fancy stout glass. Black w thick head on hard pour. Roasty chocolate aroma. Creamy mouthfeel. Mild smooth very tasty porter.
Dark pour from bottle. Reddish tinged. Smells of malt. Cocoa malt taste. Pretty decent.
Cask at GBBF 2015. Dark brown, small bubbly white head. Aroma is candy floss, sweet dried dough, some red berry. Body is medium to light, smooth, low carbonation. Taste is cola, some ashy bitterness. Nice aroma but a bit of a thin flavour. Came across like a mild.
Cask gravity at gbbf 2015 day 3. Thanks to Colin. But brown coloured pour with a lasting halo of white head. Aroma is vanilla, fruit cake, booze, sherry, cakey malts. Flavour is raisin and dried fruits. Oily. Palate is semi sweet, oily. Lowish carbonation. Interesting enough.
Medium brown pour with 2 finger tan head. Nutty roasted malt aroma. Roasty nutty, malt, dark cocoa bitterness. Almost like a chocolate nut-brown, very nice.
Has a faint smoke aroma. Has a nice bit of a chocolate taste. Has a creamy nice body. Not bad.
Draft at Spacebar. Black with bare lite tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, lite coffee, ash. Taste is similar, with hint of chocolate. Thin, bit watery. Good enough to drink a couple, but not to seek out.
First impressions: rather light for a porter, not as complex as hoped for. However, as it warms a bit and I keep sipping, it's flavors grow, but not to where I'd expect from a 7 malt beer. I detect hints of coffee, a little chocolate, and very subtle smoke on the tongue but surprisingly not on the nose. Overall, a decent porter but less than I'd hoped for.
Pours a nice black color, but has no lacing or head retention. I expected it to smell more of chocolate and burnt coffee, but those are barely present. It is more bitter than most porters I have had. Reminds me more of a black ipa than a porter.
This is an OK porter....slightly above average but nothing really special here. There’s some roasty coffee and chocolate flavors, though the texture and balance could be a little better. Evolution just made it down here to FL. My first sample from them, so I’ll give one of their other styles a try.
Sharp bitter chocolate and a lot of grain but only a little roast aroma. Pours black withouy much head. Light bitter finish. Bottle at right proper.
Weak aroma (could be the glass). Deep coffee color, clear. Hints of coffee and chocolate. Hop bitterness shows up at the end and lingers a bit long.
Bottle poured dark brown with ruby highlights with tan head. aroma coffee, chocolate, roasty. flavor roasty, licorice, chocolate, smoke. good beer
Keg @ Sedona. Deep brown with a small head. Nose of boiled grain, fruit leather, toffee. Taste is strawberry. Bitter ash. Brown bread. Sort of thin and watery.
4 ounce pour on draft at Evolution Craft. Brownish black with off-white head. Aromas of light roast, dark fruit, light chocolate. Tastes of roast, licorice, chocolate, dark fruit. Medium body with a dry finish.
Nice malt, coffee, a hint of chocolate and smoke upon the first taste. The appearance is nice and dark for a porter. It has a nice dry lingering finish.
12 oz. bottle from Total Wine, Virginia Beach, VA. Dark brown cola-like pour. Roasted malt aroma of chocolate, espresso, and light smoke. Taste features roasted coffee, dark chocolate, and faint bitter charred malt with just a touch of floral hops on the finish. Medium bodied. This is nicely done porter.
Je le verse et il ressemble bien à un porter. Je ne vois pas tant de mousse dans mon verre. Un anneau, sans aucun doute. Le nez propose une céréale rôtie, de la vanille et du chocolat. Le goût est corsé, comme du café, assez bien rôti, un peu terreux avec une pointe de fumée ou de brûlure. La vanille est absente ou vraisemblablement remplacée par un fruit noir. Ce porter a une structure plus corpulente que la plupart de ses frères. La texture est en petite crème. L’arrière-goût est bien sec avec une amertume bien prolongée et même fruitée.
On tap at the Evolution Public House in Salisbury, MD.
Opaque, near black with a thin khaki head that did not linger more than a minute and good lacing.
Aroma of roasted malt, prunes, smokey coffee and chocolate.
Taste of chocolate, blackberry, roasted malt, roasted coffee, plums and a touch of smokiness.
Medium body and high/medium carbonization.
Not bad but not one of the better porters out there. Had bottled. Decent color. A little too light in the flavor. Too heavily carbonated.
On tap at Two Stones Wilmington. Dark pour with ruby highlights. Almost no head. Chocolate syrup and roast flavors. Slightly metallic tasting. Not all that tasty, honestly.
From notes:
On draft at the public house Otis dark brown with no head. The aroma is coffee and the taste is strong and bitter with coffee that lingers on the palate