New Belgium Portage Porter
A great porter just feels right in your hand. And carrying a glass of Portage Porter is no different. An opaque, brown pour, this beer presents with coffee and chocolate aromas, with hints of toast and smoked almonds. The taste follows suit, adding an upfront sweetness and a slight, roasty bitterness to back it up. Creamy and wonderful, this porter sips a medium body and finishes dry and delightful. Portage Porter carts itself towards perfection. Just tip your glass and keep smiling. Available January 2015.
3.7
227 reviews
Fort Collins, United States
Community reviews
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is roast malts and coffee.Taste is more of the roast malts and coffee with some bitterness on the end. Not bad.
On tap at Stadium Brewing brewpub in California: 16oz pour on 18th May 2015. Dark brown/black body, tanned topping. Dark chocolate and coffee esters in the nose, the flavour also on the same lines. Full bodied and fairly smooth in nature, creamy for a Porter. More than decent.
Aroma of coffee and chocolate, pours a dark brown with medium lasting tan well laced head. Wonderful smokey taste with hints if chocolate and coffee. Creamy medium body feel, with a great coffee finish.
Tallahassee TJ’s bottle. Nice dark brown pour with a long lasting tan head. Aroma is sweet malt and milky hot chocolate. The flavor brings in some nice espresso too. Tasty.
Nice roasted malt aroma. Toasty, but too burntlike. Not super strong. Pours with a small off white head and black body. Taste is sweet with some bitterness from the dark malts. A bit thin flavorwise. Light ish body and light carb
Bottle purchased as part of a mixed sixer at Kroger Stoneridge. Dark brown in color with a thick tan head. Aroma of sweet caramel, malt, chocolate and some roast. Malty flavor with sweet chocolate accents before a bitter roasted malt finish.
Great beer! I wasnt expecting the exploxion of flavor! Very happy with this porter
bottle from johnny the regular...thanks me boy.....nice solid black pour with a nice creamy head...nice solid porter..(#468)
Shared at Alice’s birthday party with Posey. Pours brown with two fingers of mocha head. Aroma is dark chocolate and slight malt. Slight roast. Medium bodied. Flavor follows aroma and is really smooth and nice. Good beer.
(Bottle) A disappointing porter. A bit thin, with some kind of acidic, citrus, tart aftertaste that doesn’t mesh well with the dark coffee malt. Bummer.
It's been a while since I've had a dark beer from New Belgium, was looking forward to sampling this. From the bottle, this does not disappoint. Pours a very dark blackish brown color, minimal translucence and minimal ruby accents, slight khaki head, looks solid, but not exceptionally appealing. Aroma is big notes of coffee and chocolate, and roasted malt. Slight almond nuttiness as advertised. Taste likewise is big on coffee and chocolate flavored roast notes, bitter but no hops or earthiness as other porters may have in their flavor profile. Smooth and medium bodied texture, just the right amount of heft. Very enjoyable overall; this will become a regular of mine. Well done!
12 oz bottle. Pours a thick black color, completely opaque. Thick tan head, great lacing. Aroma is sweet caramel, with a yeasty sourness, and roasty notes. Flavor is a surprising amount of bitter hops up front, although maybe unsurprising for a brewery known for its hoppy ales. Nonetheless, it settles into a sweet caramel malt backbone, with roasty notes. A bit of sourness too. Overall a very good porter.
From a 12 oz bottle at the Howard Theatre in DC. Pours black with a tan head. Toasty roast nose. Flavors of tobacco and leather with some sweet malt notes.
Pours dark brown color with tan head. Roasted malt and chocolate aromas. Burnt malt flavor with some milk chocolate. Bitter and ashy. Medium body with average carbonation.
12 oz bottle compliments of skinnycheeks. Poured a dark brown, almost black with a thin tan head. Taste of malty sweetness, nutty, toast with a slight herbal finish. Lively carbonation, medium body.
Bottle. Dark brown beer with a dark tan head. Roast and nutty aroma with light coffee. Caramel and roast flavor with nuttiness and coffee. Medium bodied. Roast and light coffee lingers with light caramel.
color is black with a thin off-white head that persists and leaves some lacing. aroma is light ash, coffee, and cocoa. Flavor is similar with a little more of a coffee aftertaste. Soft carbonation.
Pour from a 12oz bottle. Inky dark brew with tan head. Aroma of toast, roasted grains. Taste is rich sweet malt, toast, roasted malt at the start transitioning to a burnt coffee and bitter chocolate finish, retaining the toast flavors. Excellent porter.
Pours a finger of tan head on a black body.
The aroma is roasted malt, cocoa and toast.
The taste is thin sweetness at first, then dark chocolate bitterness middle to end. A nice short and good profile.
The texture is medium.
This a balanced and flavorful porter.
Solid, standard porter. If your looking to baseline against others, this is for you. Coffee, chocolate, malt. Good.
Bottle - pours mostly black with a soapy lace - nose is a pleasant mix of cocoa, coffee, sweet cream, maple, char - perhaps a little too sweet in the nose, but nice - soft carbonation - flavor is moderately sweet, with a slightly sharp bitterness through the middle balancing that out crudely - chocolate, slight berry-ish twanginess - moderate roasty bitterness on the tail end - lacks the depth of better examples, but it’s pretty good.
12 oz bottle, poured into a shaker pint at room temperature.
Appearance: Pours an impenetrable black, and forms a massively thick head of ecru foam that lasts and lasts. Some very faint, tiny glimmers of dark brown can be seen at the very bottom edge of the glass. Good, sticky lacing is present.
Smell: Chocolatey dark roast swells out of the glass, joined by subtle hints of light coffee.
Taste: Blackened grains, baker’s chocolate, and light-roast coffee all swirl together, forming a solid porter flavor profile. There’s also a vaguely floral, vaguely herbal tinge that overlays the entire tasting process for me, and lingers on a while as the aftertaste. This is a drawback, to me.
Mouthfeel: As is the way of most beers billed as a porter, this leans towards the watery side, thin bodied and drinkable, with a carbonation level notable only for the way it does not stand out as too present or too flat.
Overall: A solid porter, though the detectable hop presence does skew it slightly downwards for me. I live in the heart of Edmund Fitzgerald distribution territory, so I don’t see myself buying this beer when the Ed Fitz is right next to it at the same price point. I wouldn’t turn my nose up at this beer if offered, however.
Besides Fat Tire when I first got into craft beer, New Belgium’s beers haven’t really done much for me. Not counting the Lips of Faith series, this is one of the better ones that they are distributing here. Stays true to the style, though the balance leans heavily towards the sweet side. On the thicker side for the style. I prefer more of a medium and creamy texture. Only sampled a single for now. The price is right when this goes on sale, so may wind up grabbing a 12-pack one day....in other words....just makes the cut.
On tap at beer junction west Seattle. Pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is roast malts chocolate coffee vanilla licorice and some ashtray notes.Taste is more of the roast malts chocolate coffee and some bitterness on the end.
On tap at Dr. Jeckyll’s. Dark pour with an off-white head. Aroma is ashy, chocolate, and maybe some roasted grain. Taste is similar with a little coffee added in. Toast finish.
Dark pour with thin and frothy head. Fruity aroma with chalky lactic. Flavor profile was similar, roasty and milky with chocolate and dark fruit. I liked it despite the lactic flavor.
Black body not much head some lacing. Roasted malts and lactose aroma. Taste is bitter burnt malts coffee a touch of milk and dark chocolate. Tingly but a bit thin on the palate. Nice beer overall.
16 oz draft at Black Jack in a standard pint glass. Black with light tan head. Aromas of roast, dark chocolate, licorice, slight vanilla. Tastes of dark chocolate, a bit of licorice and dark fruit, light roast. Medium body with a dry finish.
Bottle, shared by me... in my dining room... just now.
Pours black with a small but well retained head and good lacing on the glass.
Goodness the roastiness, espresso, & dark chocolate just waft from the glass. The bouquet is pungent and inviting, simple, very low on sweetness, and all together enjoyable.
The flavor is a sort of medium dry with a moderate level of roasty malt bitterness. It’s got a great espresso like flavor with a light bit of ashy and smoky character and some great dark chocolate. There are some leafy hops sort of lingering in the background.
Goodness this is good, what a pleasant surprise.
Great beer. Appearance is a large frothy, tan head that settles after a bit, lots of lace, and an almost opaque, but clear black brown color. Aroma is roast, coffee, cocoa, charcoal. bits of leather Flavor’s similar to nose, very balanced, with a flash of sweet in the finish. Body is a little soft. Very easy drinking. Wish they still made it and I had more.