Mill Street Vanilla Porter
3.4
158 reviews
, Canada
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440ml can. Pours a clear, dark brown with a reddish hue and a large, creamy, long lasting, tan, nitro head that laces. Sweet aroma of vanilla cream coffee and caramel. Sweet vanilla flavour with roasted malt, caramel and dark chocolate with a light bitter, coffee finish. Light body with a smooth, creamy texture and soft, almost flat carbonation.
Can from LCBO. Masssssive gusher. Anyway, after some cleaning, the beer pours dark, near black with a reddish hue. The light tan head retains very well. The nose is awful sweet. Could be vanilla but not really distinct, I get more milk chocolate with a bit of nougat and toffee maybe. Yet... one-dimentional. The flavour’s as sweet chocolate most dominant, and a disturbing estery / herbal / chemical finish. Soft, velvety / watery light body with extremely thin, almost non-existing carbonation. Not a fan of the style nor extreme sweetness paired with watery palate.
Pours a ruby brown with a long-lasting white foam head and lots of lacing. Aroma is vanilla, toffee, and caramel, with a silky cream undertone. Flavor is sweet vanilla, caramel, toffee, some earthy hops. Has a creamy, silky smooth mouthfeel. This is a fantastic little gem.
Can into pint glass. Pours a dark brown colour with a big creamy tan head. Aroma is vanilla with slight roasted malts. Taste is about the same with a nice creamy body. Good beer.
On tap (nitro): The aroma consists of moderate vanilla ice cream with light caramel and a hint of nuts. It’s a dark brown with some orange transparency when held to the light. It has a two finger creamy khaki head that settles to a thick film. The flavor starts with a quick dose of chocolate. The finish has moderate vanilla cream, light caramel, and a hint of roasted nuts. It’s medium bodied with soft carbonation and mouthfeel.
Sampled from a 16 oz can this beer poured a very dark brown color with orange highlights and a medium sized creamy tan head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was sour caramel, toasty malts and vanilla. The flavor was sour caramel, vanilla, toasty malts, malted milk and marzipan. Long finish. Moderately full bodied and smooth. Solid.
Can from the brewpub in Ottawa. Pours darkish copper brown with stable light beige head. Clear aroma of malt and caramel, with some estery notes. Sweet flavour of fudge, with malty and estery touches. Very subtle hints of hops. Mild, sweetish and estery aftertaste. Very low carbonation. Well, something for a teddy bear, perhaps. I would rather have something else.
Smells like vanilla, sweet vanilla. Pour dark red, tan head. Tastes sweet, lightly toasted malt, some vanilla, but less than expected given the nose. Body is light and fresh, moderately carbonated.
A decent brew, but too thin for my liking.
Canette de 440 ml achetée à la LCBO (Cornwall, ONT) au coût de 2,80$. Arôme: Odeur de vanille. Apparence: La couleur est noire opaque. Présence d’un mmince col beige mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de vanille avec une pointe de chocolat et de lactose. Longue durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement onctueuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Présence de vanille en arrière goût. (Rating #6340)
Vanilla is a little strong in this one. Flat of course. Beautiful poor, tho. Can with widget.
Overall: Red fruits, vanillin, chemical.
Note: On-tap at Mill St. Brew Pub. Reviewed 2015-04-28.
15 ounce can into imperial pint glass, canned on 11/14/2014. Pours fairly clear deep reddish brown color with a 2 finger dense light khaki head with fantastic retention that reduces to a nice cap that lasts the whole glass. Nice dense soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, toast, brown bread, nuttiness, cream, light herbal, light dark fruit, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, vanilla, and light fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of big milk chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, toast, brown bread, nuttiness, cream, light herbal, light dark fruit, and yeast earthiness. Minimal herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, toast, brown bread, nuttiness, cream, light herbal/dark fruit, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice robustness, balance, and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, vanilla, and light fruity yeast flavors; with a good roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light carbonation and medium bodied; with a very smooth, creamy, and slightly bready/chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 5%. Overall this is a damn nice English porter style. All around great robustness, balance, and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, vanilla, and light fruity yeast flavors; and very smooth to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
From a can. Vanilla aroma with hints of smokiness. Classic dark porter appearance with a well retained off white head. Very strong vanilla flavour with roasted coffee undertones. Very creamy with a sweet fruity finish.very drinkable.
Aroma:light creamy vanilla aroma...
Appearance:Dark brown,good creamy head..
Flavor:Vanilla, light sour flavor...
Very nice dark brown color with an extremely dense off-white head. Vanilla and milk aroma. The taste has too much vanilla and too little smoke for my taste.
Nice tan head not much of a scent, vanilla is definitely present works with style just nothing that good
This beer is my personal all-time favorite. Being a vanilla freak, when I saw this beer at the Mill Street Brewpub at Toronto Pearson International Airport, I had to try it. Ended up ordering two of them. Its scent is definately that of natural vanilla. Its taste just blew me away. Bold vanilla with a hint of cocoa and maybe a little sweet coffee. Too bad I can't find it anywhere in Quebec, It really would be my go to dessert beer. :-)
ENG: 440ml can from Liquor Mart Winnipeg, poured into the tulip. Very clear, dark brown to red color with small, beige head. Aromas of vanilla and chocolate are very pronounced, smells great. Tastes chocolate and cocoa, creme, milk. Later on some caramel comes in. It’s quite hard to distinguish any aftertaste. If there’s any, I think maybe a bit caramel. The mouthfeel is low to medium, low carbonation, a bit watery. Overall this beer smells fantastic, and taste at the start-up is great, but after a while you realize there is quite low body and watery mouthfeel. Too bad...
PL: Puszka 440ml kupiona w Liquor Mart w Winnipeg, przelana do kieliszka. Bardzo klarowna, ciemno brązowa - czerwonawa barwa z niewielką, beżową pianą. Aromaty wanilii i czekolady bardzo mocne, pachnie świetnie. W smaku czekolada, kakao, śmietanka, mleko. Po chwili również karmel. Ciężko dostrzec jakikolwiek posmak choć może być nieco karmelowy. Odczucie w ustach dość lekkie, niskie nasycenie, nieco wodniste. Podsumowując świetnie pachnące piwo, smak na początku wydaje się równie genialny, jednak po chwili dochodzi się do wniosku, że piwo jednak jest płytkie w treści i na domiar złego dość wodniste. A szkoda...
New England Bucket List Trip #143. Nitro at the Ottawa location. Pours a hazy brown with a thin creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, vanilla, cigars. The taste is vanilla, chocolate, dark fruits, cherries, yogurt. Thin bodied.
Excited about trying another offering from Canada and this nitro charged vanilla porter from Mill St. Brewery sounds like a great Sunday afternoon change from the heat of the wood stove and the frigid remnants of the crazy snowstorm we had last night.
Despite the fact that the can tells you to ’serve cold’, I have a slight aversion to drinking a porter at refrigerator temps, so I placed it on the counter for a few minutes before venturing in. Whoot! As soon as I cracked this, the contents of the can came pouring out, exploding with aroma, foam and beer! Well, half a beer is better than none and it does smell nice!
The body is lightweight, thin, the flavor almost an afterthought and the nut brown liquid and milk chocolaty head are a visual mirror image of the flavor and palate. Of course, the warmer it gets, the better it is, and I feel a need to go to Mill St. and beg them to take that ’serve cold’ direction OFF THE CAN! ’Serve mildly cool’ would much better!
I’m at about a 50 degree temp now and it’s ten times better than what I had when I started. NOW I can write this thing.
The aroma is heavy vanilla wrapped around a weak, milk chocolaty flavor, not as sweet as it was cold, and actually having a pleasant bitter back. A light caramel is present, keeping a solid foundation underneath the hops, and balancing out the taste slightly in favor of the sweet malts.
It’s still too thin, too flat to really appreciate the finish, but the aroma and flavor are making up for the lean mouth feel. Wouldn’t buy it, but I’d give this another go if offered up...
440 mL can. amber brown pour, creamy beige head. Aroma is strong vanilla, overpowering mostly. Taste has a bit of roast in it. Body is a bit thin and light. Did not like this one much.
Amazing smell, hints of sweet vanilla and oak were very intoxicating .. As anticipated given it’s colour, this mild beer drinker wasn’t a major fan of this beers overall taste.. However the aftertaste was quiet pleasant and sweet
Poured from can. Aroma of vanilla and chocolate. Pours black with off white head. Taste is medium to heavy sweet. Medium body and creamy texture. A nice brew, but maybe a tad too sweet.
Where and how: can 440 ml, LCBO
Aroma strong, yet bit too sweet vanilla notes. Chocolate feel present but muted by first.
Appearance :
Top: medium, fine thick creamy top.
Base: clear, dark amber-brown.
Palate : smooth with somewhat creamy texture, mild carbonation. Mid bodied.
Taste: as in aroma – sweet vanilla up front, tad overpowering this ale. Finish bit washed out with hints of milk chocolate.
Other notes passable.
Opaque black with a quickly dissipating head. Vanilla, roast, chocolate, malt aroma as expected, but not particularly potent. Relatively thin for a porter. Creamy. Roast and chocolate are certainly present, but the vanilla is relatively faint. Mildly bitter roast finish. Mediocre.
Based on previous Mill Street experiences, I was hoping to enjoy but not be wowed. I was wrong about this one, it’s a pretty interesting beer. I have never seen a beer look this good creamy head-wise, not even Guinness. This dark brown ruby pour has a very light tan, perfectly creamy and thick head. Maybe it is from some unnatural conjurings but it looks great. An aroma of sweet vanilla latte, some cocoa and lightly roasted malts, nuttiness and cream lure you into a taste that is the same and extremely enjoyable. At times I am suspicious of real vanilla but overall it tastes authentic and pleasantly well balanced, leaning on the sweet side. But who wants bitter vanilla? Thick creaminess comprises the body and a smooth roasted coffee and vanilla ice cream taste lingers in this low carbonated Porter. A pleasure.
440 ml can. Aroma of vanilla and chocolate. Taste of coffee and cherries. Palate is smooth and a light for a porter. Overall a nice offering.
Poured from the tap. Medium reddish brown with creamy beige head. Vanilla, cream, white chocolate, quite light overall.
440ml can into an English pint. Pours a jet black with a light mocha head. Nose is really quite unpleasant, perhaps a little too much licorice amid the vanilla and chocolate. Flavour-wise is full on milk chocolate with a bit of vanilla mixed in. Smooth and velvety on the palate, perhaps a little too sweet.
Can to nonic glass, the beer pours an inky black with a slight off white head. Aroma is strong vanilla, cream, licorice, spices, booze, cinnamon and other stuff...though a bit one dimensional. The taste carries roasted malt, coffee, vanilla...and is biased to the sweet side of things. The palate is just ok; I hate nitrogen in beer and would rather have this carbonated instead. In fact it obscures the taste of and makes it seem more watery than I like...plus it reminds me of guiness which is probably one of my most hated beers. Overall...this is just OK. Nothing horrible but could be better.