Kennebunkport Porter
2.9
191 reviews
Kennebunk, United States
Community reviews
Bottle at home. Deep amber pour. The aroma is sweet coffee, maple syrup, root beer. Thin wiry body, but it has lean roasted malts, maple, bitter coffee, burnt caramel, and burnt wood flavors. Well attenuated finish. Ashy. This is complex but needs a bit more viscosity and ABV to carry these flavors. Falls a bit short.
12 ounce bottle from Trader Joe’s. Translucent brown color with a moderate fluffy light tan head. Sweet roasted malt nose is redolent of cocoa. Thin bodied with slight notes of cocoa and weak coffee. Slightly lactic with little more to offer. Skip this one.
Quite interesting but nothing special. Watery at some point and a little thin. BUt great to enjoy in a good moment.
Olmost black with an off white head - Good malt aroma - Good roasted malt body with some bitterness - The roasted malt goes into the finish - This was nice
Medium brown pour, disappearing head. Little coco on the nose. Bittersweet. Middle is bittersweet chocolate, dollop of molasses, and some dark malt. Finish wants to lean dry, but still comes out a tad sweet. Not bad, not great.
Bought at Trader Joe’s in Queens, NY. This can hardly be called a porter. Sweet smell, thin taste, light-bodied, bitter, slightly toasty. Again, the least porterly of the porters.
12oz bottle at an art event, can’t tell you how it looked. Smells heavy with malt and licorice. Flavor is chewy malts, molasses and licorice. Full bodied, lightly sweet finish.
Bottle. Pours a deep mahogany color with a small head. Aroma of roasted malt with hint of coffee. Taste of roasted malt coffee and bit of dark chocolate. Nice bitterness and the finish is quite dry. Moderate body, smooth with a malty feel. Nice beer without being overly complex
ez drinking, thin, caramel, roasty, red, clear, tan foam, light sweetness, light body, thin feel, soft carbonation,
Bottle: Poured a clear dark color porter with a medium size light brown foamy head with OK retention and some light lacing. Aroma of light chocolate and roasted malt notes is enjoyable. Taste is a mix of chocolate malt with some roasted malt notes with some light dry finish. Body is light with good carbonation. A bit short on complexity but well drinkable.
12 oz. bottle from Trader Joe’s. Nose is light and slightly skunky. Taste is a little smoky but that is where the porter similarity ends. From there it’s mildly acidic and watery. Ugh! Fortunately I only purchased one bottle.
Bottle:
Deep brown, rubied, with a small tan head.
Cola, chocolate scent.
Taste is moderately bitter dark chocolate/cocoa, flat cola.
Light, earthy-nutty bitter.
Not too bad, pretty watery, though.
12 oz can. BBE J/15. (Trader Joe’s) Greenville, SC.
Dark reddish brown colour with a small white head.
Toasted malt, sweetness, some hops and some cardboard in the aroma.
The flavour is toasted malt, dryness, cardboard and some mild hops. Thin.
Bottle. Light ash, hay, and chocolate malt aroma. Chestnut brown with small head. Sweet cocoa malt and moderately bitter herbal flavor. Very light body. Okay but very light.
Pours brown with a foamy head. Aroma of strong bitter coffee, a little cocoa and bourbon. Very bitter with faint caramel malt flavors, nothing really going on, not totally pleasant. Heavy bite on the tongue overpowers any subtle flavors that might be there. Cheap but wouldn’t buy again.
"for $5.99 a sixer (or a buck for a single) this is a steal. not anything special per se, but a more than serviceable porter. pours black with thin khaki head. a tad thin. the aroma and taste are a bit of a hybrid between an american and london porter...nutty, toffee, roasted malts. quite pleasant , and a pleasant surprise at this price point."
Serving: Bottle. Dark brown pour with a short lived tan head. Stale nose with a bit of roast and caramel. Weird acridic bitterness on the tongue. Light caramel with a touch of roast and earth. Not much else. Weak body. Pass on this one.
Brown pour. Tan head. Little lacing. Smells of not much. Butter bomb. Sweet finish. Too sweet.
This beer just isn’t any good. It is brown and headless in the glass. It smells and taste sort of vegetal and brackish. It does have a touch of caramel malt character but seems to be oversweet and sluggish because of it. Overall, this is neither good tasting nor drinkable so I can see no real redeeming value.
Not particularly good by any means. Pours black without much head or lacing. Kind of a sour dishrag finish with some light roast aroma. Bottle.
Bottle into glass.. black pour with thin off white heD... fruity taste and aroma,, nothing I would ever do again....
Bottle. KBC Porter from Trader Joe’s. Dark Brown in color. Small "off white" head. Aroma is burnt grains, coffee. Taste is Coffee, chocolate, burnt vanillia beans.
From TJs. Reminds me of old school microbrew porters, much thinner and less robust than today’s varieties. Mineral taste. Serving: Bottle
Dark black. Light body. Malty. Some chocolate. Not very memorable but ok. Thanks seymour.
12 oz. bottle, foisted on me by Ian. Pours black, with a medium, bubbly, tan head. The aroma is roasted coffee, peat, oak, and brown sugar. Sweet and malty, with a slightly sour, toasted bitterness. Medium body, acidic, a little chalky, and astringent. This is a overly roasted porter, with an unpleasant flavor and mouthfeel.
12 ounce bottle for a buck at Trader Joes (plus the bottle deposit which is totally worth it, good idea). Pours a dark brown color with a small greyish head. A sweet cocoa nose. Sweet, cocoa, toasted malts, nutty. Hmm. Decent, coca-cola. Just thin and mostly light. Has some Guinness mineral flavors in it that I like. OK.
Kennebunkport Porter has a thin, cream-colored head, no lacing left behind, and a dark brown (ruby, under direct light) appearance. The aroma is of turned or spoiled raw spinach and dark grain, and after the beer warms a bit, one gets sweet syrup and acidic hops. Taste is of dark grain, turned fruit or vegetable matter, acidity, some chocolate powder, and a background stinging bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium and somewhat powdery, and KBC Porter finishes semi-dry, and it does improve in flavor after it settles down and warms. But, make sure you let it warm and settle down! RJT
12 oz. bottle poured to a Czech-pils glass showing a clear, deep mahogany brown color, with a creamy layer of tan head froth, and wavy cling to the lacing. The nose was roasted, chocolate, some caramel sweetness, toffee, and a bit of husk & grain scent to the malt. The taste abandoned the sweetness, and took on hop bitterness that possessed earthy astringency & dryness, with some lingering quality. Light to medium bodied, with decent carbonation, and light creaminess to the mouth feel. Finished on the dry side as a fairly drinkable Porter. From the local Trader Joe’s as KBC Porter from Portland, Maine.
The aroma smells like a box of raisins, with a bit of an earthy, kind of muddy smell. Not necessarily bad, but not wonderful. It’s almost black, with a thin tan head. It tastes pretty good, but a bit thin. It’s got plenty of chocolate up front with a pleasant-but-nondescript hop flavor that lingers. A decent porter for the price, but I’d probably sooner pay a little more for more quality.
A black body with a tan head. Aroma had a robust coffee presence initially. Hints of chocolate and mild licorice. Flavor seemed to be mostly coffee malts. There was some sweetness to it. Almost one dimensional.