Great Divide St. Bridgets Porter (St. Brigids)
St. Bridget, a legendary Irish saint, created a sensation by turning her bathwater into beer. What better way to celebrate her worthy miracle than with our zymurgistic tribute to her feat, St. Bridget’s Porter. St. Bridget’s is a smooth, elegant, and chocolaty brown porter. Brimming with coffee and chocolate characteristics from dark barley malts, St. Bridget’s is carefully hopped to provide the perfect complement to its malty robustness.
[Apparently revived, at least on tap at the brewery, as of late March, 2014; unknown if they will resume bottling. -Ernest]
[Apparently revived, at least on tap at the brewery, as of late March, 2014; unknown if they will resume bottling. -Ernest]
3.4
900 reviews
Denver, United States
Community reviews
Bottle.Pours dark brown with a big long lasting beige head.Aroma is spicy, chocolate, herb and coffee.Flavor is coffee chocolate, coffee, roasted, burnt notes and caramel.Medium body, average carbonation.Nice roasted beer.
Tap @ Cockney pub, Århus. Pours dark brown with a brown head. Aroma of oatmeal, coffee and dark chocolate. Taste is much like aroma. Medium body, soft carbonation.
Thanks bro! Pours silky brown with a creamy tan head. Aroma of oats and funk, with some molasses. Roasted oatmeal taste that fades into coffee and bitter chocolate. Mellow and slightly carbonated, with a lighter body. Great aroma, but the taste is lacking intensity and body. Could be great with a little work.
Bottle. Pours a clear, deep red/brown with an off-white/beige head. Sweet aroma; roasted, remote hops, chocolate and slight creamy and spicy notes. A bit cloying. Sweetish and a bit tart flavour. Roasted and chocolate notes. Finish is dry with some mild smoked notes and a mild bitterness as well. Lingering grassy and apple notes. Overall decent, but doesn’t really do anything for me. Also, too cloying for my liking. 04.12.10.
Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a very dark, chestnut brown body, with very little head (probably served too cold). The aroma has strong chocolate notes and some slight berry notes. The beer is full bodied with crisp carbonation, the flavor is generous in it’s roastiness, leaving a pronounced but short lived aftertaste on the sides of the tongue. This perter isn’t bad, though I would like to have the coffee/chocolate flavor linger a littler longer. I find that it goes a little too quickly, leaving the end notes flat.
THOUGHTS: Nice porter. I’ve had some better and some worse. Middle of the road.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, very dark red that looked nearly black in the glass, but was bright crimson when backlit. It also had a large, tan head that mostly lasted and left excellent lacing that truly looked like lace. The aroma wasn’t bed, but was weak. There was moderate roasted and burnt malts, chocolate and coffee; and light to moderate hops. The initial flavor was light to moderately sweet, acidic, and lightly bitter; while the finish was lightly sweet, bitter and acidic with a slightly longer than average finish. There was roasted malt, a little chocolate, slight coffee, bitter chocolate, bitter coffee and hops blend in the finish, and slight dark fruit. The light to medium body was silky with fizzy carbonation and a slightly metallic, slightly dry and ever so slightly astringent finish.
Heard they stopped making this one, so when I saw a bottle that was still within a year of bottling I decided to pick it up and review what I had heard was a good porter. Not a disappointment. Very straightforward, slightly burnt coffee nose with hint of bacon smokiness. Taste is chocolate malt heavy with slight espresso. Not overly complex, not a beer you need to think about a lot, but good flavors and nice drinkability.
Bottle from Sam’s in Durham. Pours dark brown, but pretty clear for a porter, and with a light beige, thin head. Nose mostly of chocolate malts. Nice, but not very exciting. Taste shows more chocolate, but better balanced with roast and hops. Thin palate. Nice, but not exiting.
Bottle. Pours a pretty dark brown/ruby red color, with a frothy beige head. Aroma is of roasted malt, burnt grains, chocolate and hops. The flavor of the malt feels more toatsted than roasted. I also get the burnt grains, chocolate, hops and some faint coffee. The body is in the low en of medium with a silky smooth and slightly dry mouthfeel. Overall an good and really drinkable Porter.
IT IS REALLY just as described with adequate hop and chocolate malts the brew is sweetish and filling yet refreshing. soothing and comforting yet still beery enough. it has no hint of alcohol.
solid porter, great pour, nice chocolate color and foamy, strong toffee malt flavor, tastes toasted and roasted, nice choice for fall or winter, tall, frothy, and full bodied.
Dark brown beer, with a thick beige head.
The aroma is sweet, with notes of roastet malt, chokolate hops and metal.
The taste is also sweet, with ar sourish bitter aftertaste.
Good notes of coffee, malt, chokolate and citrus.
It’s a good porter, but not as robust as the lable claims.
This is a nice red brown hued black color w/ a bit of a lasting off white head and little patches of lace. The nose is a pleasant roast coffee and dark chocolate aroma but the flavor and texture is a bit thinner and less rich than one would hope. Rather dry, perhaps in homage to the Irish namesake and very drinkable though. The carbonation feels like it is about the correct level but this maybe lacks just a bit in creaminess given the flavor palate it uses. This fills it’s purpose reasonably well but just doesn’t quite make it to the level of the best porters.
Pretty good caramel porter. Not as "robust" as advertised, and compared to some of my favorite porters (Duck Rabbit, Founders), it doesn’t stack up well, but it’s still a solid beer. Definitely would drink again.
Pours brown (near black in-glass) with a big brown head. Nose is a blend of chocolate and some bittering hops. Flavor is of similar composition with a good dose of roastiness coming out on the backside to offset a sweet front. Finish is quick and dark chocolaty. I’m not huge on porters or stout but this is good.
(12oz bottle). Pours dark brown with tan head. Nice lacing. Aroma of bread, caramel. Taste is sweet/sour with light dry roasty bitterness. Light to medium bodied with thin/creamy texture. flat carbonation and smooth/smoky/roasty finish.
good, but not great. pretty dark with a medium body. malty. easy to drink. others are better.
Saint Bridget’s Porter is a crystal clear, dark reddish brown ale with a thin, light khaki head that thins out to a film and holds steady to leave solid sheets of lacing. It has a very roasty aroma that leans toward coffee. There’s a touch of sweet resin in the nose. It’s medium bodied and very smooth with a very dry finish. It leaves a slightly alkaline mouth feel. It has really good balance: a touch of sweetness, ample bitterness and lots of roasted flavor. It’s coffee-like. The aftertaste is bitter both like dark chocolate and something green. There is a slight hint of molasses. This is a very nice full flavored porter.
Very dark bed with a little bit of red and a fantastic though quickly fading brown head. Aroma is not very strong, very malty though. Taste is a great balance of chocolate and coffee malts. Pretty lively carbonation, muted finish.
Nice chocolaty nose, a bit of roasted malt too. Appearance is nice, reddish hue of brown, some lacing. Palate is very roasted, a little thin, a bit bitter. Average porter.
Poured into Samuel Smiths Pint glass, Dark Ruby/Brown, faint, lasting tan head. Aroma was very mild, some burnt malt. As i sipped it, and it warmed, the flavors became more apparent (as most beers do ) The taste is pretty similar to the nose, but a little weaker and more of a bitter finish than expected. Good flavor just not quite what I was expecting. Toasty, Light malt. A nice Porter, but used to more flavorful Porters.
Dark brown in color with a decent off-white head and some lacing. Very nice roast and caramel aroma. Flavor is roasted malt, caramel, toffee, and some mild hops. Body is medium and low carbonation.
Pours a silky black with a kakhi head. Smells like dark chocolate and coffee. Taste is smooth coffee mostly, with lots of smokey malts, some chocolate, and a sweet finish that excites your sweet tooth and makes you want more. I would score it higher if it had a fuler body, but once you get used to it, you notice its a bit on the watery side.
Dark ruby pour with light tan head fading fast. Nose of roasted malt, chocolate, some malt richness and evident american hop aroma. In the right mood it could slightly remind you of an IBA. The taste brings out more chocolate and some smooth coffee beans. some bitterness. Medium to medium-full body. low carbonation makes it an easy drinker. A nice porter.
Tap at Blind Tiger. Pours dark brown with a creamy, tan head. Malty aroma, with faint roast character. Flavor is sweet and malty, with molasses and some chocolate. Medium in body, perhaps a little thin, with average carbonation. Finished with mild roast and malty sweetness. Pretty good.
Had the 12 oz bottle. Has a decent chocalate aroma though I could detect the molasses. Pours a dark brown with a light brown head.looks good. Has a real lite chocalate taste. Nuts and molasses are also there. The taste feels like they played it safe. Medium mouthfeel with a little warming ability. A decent brew that has the potential to be slot better
Poured black with a thin off-white head. Aroma of nuts and roasted malts. Flavors of vanilla and chocolate malts. Slightly nutty and creamy. A little on the light-bodied side. Finish is smooth and chocolaty. Pretty good.
12 oz. Tried as part of a porter tasting.
A: Jet black with a meidum white head and good lacing along the edges.
S: Very sweet dark chocolate and caramel.
T: There is bitter coffee with a sweet dark chocolate finish.
M: Full body and medium carbonation.
Pours dark brown with a beige head with some good lacing. Aroma is mollasses and nuts. Flavor is mollasses. Medium bodied...This is pretty bland.
(12oz bottled on Dec 2 2009) clear medium brown, oily light tan head, and excellent lacing of the glass. Nose of sweet chocolate, nuts, brown sugar and subtle vanilla. Smells pretty good actually. Taste of roasted nuts, dark chocolate, cream, oily medium-light body that’s moderately refreshing and quite creamy.