O'so Night Rain Porter

This complex porter is as black as coal that fueled locomotives for generations Made with judicious amounts of crystal and chocolate malt for a rich, smooth, creamy experience. Go ahead and jump on the night train. Enjoy!

3.6

278 reviews

Plover, United States

Community reviews

3.6 Bottle. Pours dark brown with light beige head. Aroma is vanilla, roast, cookies, cream, milk chocolate, some bread, light raisin, sweetness. Taste is milky, creamy, soft, some chocolate, roast, some white bread, nuts, some caramel. Nice beer!

3.6 Taste: Semi sweet dark chocolate malt, smooth creamy finish. Smoked malt nose. Dark brown, mostly opaque, with a creamy tan head and some lace. medium body.

3.7 Dark brown to black colored, medium tan creamy head, nice lasting. Aroma is quite strong chocolate, dark chocolate, roasted malt, some caramel. Taste is medium sweet malt, some roasty notes, strong milk and some dark chocolate, light caramel, medium- cocoa bitterness, some oat. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, creamy. (bottle)

3.6 solid porter that is layered, bitter then sweet. strong roast and chocolate. on tap at Hopcat-Madison.

3.2 (choco-fumé, café-lait, crémeuse, maltée, > lactée, rôtie, ~choco, lack caractère, douce mais décevante, not a word)

3.8 Verrrry nice. Bottle in WI. Toasty. Some cocoa. Good bit of carbonation. Really solid porter. Thanks Rb

3.8 12floz bottle. no date, $2 single, pint glass. Pours a very dark brown with a thin layer of tan head. Roasty in the nose, and robust on the palate. Dark chocolate and mild coffee flavors do meld well together to create a solid porter.

3.4 Obfita, ale sycząca piana, ciemnobrązowa barwa. W nikłym aromacie głównie mleczna czekolada i latte. Smak półsłodki, czekoladowy, kawowy, bardzo kremowy, gładki, ze średnią, paloną goryczką i jakby minimalnym anyżowym posmakiem. Niskie wysycenie, lekka szorstkość w odbiorze. Dość przeciętny porter o całkiem przyjemnej fakturze.

3.6 35,5cl Bottle @ 3er Tiempo Tienda de Cervezas, Santander, Spain. Dark brown colour with a thin tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, cocoa, sweet, licorice. Taste is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, caramel, nuts. Medium body, moderate carbonation.

3.5 Bottle from Beergium. Deep dark brown, almost black beer with nice, clody head. Beautiful beer. Aroma has milk chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, cream and wood. Very nice. Taste is quite dry. It has burnt coffee and hints of milk chocolate, but this turns surprisingly a bit in to watery feeling. Medium body, low carbonation. Everything is fine until the taste turns too watery.

3.5 A good session Porter - straight forward dry, medium bodied. Pours nearly opaque dark chestnut brown. Bready aroma. Taste is dark bread with a hint of treacle. Starts mildly sweet, finishes drier with a hint of bitter. Palate is medium bodied with a slight creaminess followed by a cleansing dry finish. Overall very nice, drinkable, uncomplicated Porter.

3.6 Bottle. Almost clear brown color, short frothy head. Aroma of minty chocolate, butterscotch and candied orange peel. Like pralines, with amaretto liqour. More roast in taste and dark bread, bit sharp and dry roast. Also some bitterness from the orange peel. Interesting.

3.8 Bottle @ Home. Pours very dark brown with a tan head, light lacings. Aroma of sweet roasted malt, sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, cocoa powder, little dried dark fruit. Flavor is sweet, roast malt, chocolate, milk chocolate, cocoa powder, dried fruit. Medium body, soft to average carbonation, sweet and light bitter finish. 231217

3.9 Bottle from the sadly now closed Worldwide Alcohol, Chelmsford. Bottle as Night Train. Pours very dark brown with a lasting beige head. Aroma of milk chocolate, roasted coffee, malt, dark fruits, caramel, wood, molasses and hint of rum. Medium plus sweetness, medium roasted bitterness. full bodied, slick texture, very soft carbonation. Very good.

3.7 American robust porter from a craft brewery in Wisconsin "fighting against boring beer", unknown to me until today. Medium thick, 'membranously' lacing, moussy and creamy, pale greyish beige, stable head, slowly showing a few 'holes' here and there minutes after pouring but in all very well-retaining, over a clear, utterly dark burgundy brown beer - in fact as good as black, but still with a ruby red hue visible under bright light. Aroma of a lot of cold espresso and coffee grounds, liquorice, warm game stock, something sweaty (worn-out leather jacket, even actual sourish stale sweat), walnuts, overripe and mushy black olives, burnt toast, toffee, chestnut, dates, fried black trumpet mushrooms and fried black pudding, melting butterscotch, hints of iron-like clotted blood, cold tomato soup, acorn shells, wet dog, bayleaf. Only restrained 'dried peach'- and vaguely fig-like sweetishness in the onset, clean, with the beefy and mushroom-ish umami factor (already apparent in the nose) coming up quite explicitly, more so than any sweetness really, with that typical roasted barley sourishness running beneath it; carbonation remains very soft, mouthfeel is oily and a bit greasy, of a thickness perhaps just a bit below what one would expect from a 7% ABV porter. Hard butterscotch-like maltiness does provide a bit more sweetness in the middle, quickly turning very (wal-)nutty and, also quickly following, roasted bitter, with a bitter black coffee-like effect in the end, mouth-filling and eventually supported by a generously spicy 'American'-dosed hop bitterness, wiping out whatever little sweetness that was there in the first place; a notably metallic 'feeling' lingers at the edges. The roasted bitterness and the outspoken umami flavours combined lend the whole a somewhat smoky effect, though this is definitely not a smoked porter; alcohol provides a subtle warmth after swallowing but does not become too explicit at all. Bitter toasty and roasted maltiness dominates in the end, with a softening nutty core and a thin liquorice-like effect at its sides. Your basic modern-era 'Americanized' robust porter, perhaps already a bit outdated in this day and age, a bit reminiscent of pioneering beers like Sierra Nevada Porter or Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, yet distinctive in its very strong beef broth-like meaty umami profile, perhaps a tad too strong for its own good; some vague off-flavours as well. And very roasted bitter of course, to the extent that it could just as easily be sold as a stout (certainly here in old Europe), but this rather pointless discussion has been done to death by now so let's not go into that here. Whatever the case: nothing overly exceptional within the rich American craft beer context, but well-functioning and satisfying enough, I can imagine myself using this gastronomically as an ingredient in a gravy to serve with venison, for example - and in that sense, this beer fits this time of the year perfectly, which probably influences my score positively. I can imagine this performing well under bourbon barrel aging, as apparently there are a lot of variations made of it having undergone that tried-and-tested treatment.

4.5 bottle @ home dark deep brown, brown head creamy, nutty, cocoa bean, coffee, burned wood, wood, light smoky dry roasty ashy, complex and balanced, milk chocolate

3.7 Bottle. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hopy aroma. Chocolate notes. Moderate bitter flavor. Roasted. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate. Nice.

3.8 Bottle, 0.355l. Pours pitch black with thin creamy light brown head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, licorice, grass and dried fruit. Taste starts with light sweet and rich roasted malt, follows by licorice and coffee, mouthfeel is mild spicy, while finish is light bitter. Medium to full body, thin creamy texture and average carbonation in palate. O'so happy, cause today I found new beer, it's in my glass. O'so thirsty, but that's ok, cause so are you - by Beervana :)

3.4 Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ Chriso’s pre- Xmas Tasting 2015 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As O'so Night Rain Porter ]. Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, dark malt, wood. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, chocolate, dark malt, wood. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20151206] 7-3-7-3-14

4.0 Bottle 33 cl. Noire à mousse beige +/- stable. Nez sur la réglisse surtout, le café, le rôti ; chocolaté, herbal et houblonné. Bouche un peu sucrée, crémeuse, saveurs de chocolat, de café, de réglisse, de fruits noirs, un peu de vanille. Petite carbonatation et moyenne amertume. Supporter ! (Super porter :-))

3.5 Rating No.7900 Bottled 355ml. -from Beergium. Dark brown to black coloured, medium sized brownish head, mild chocolate nose. Light roasted malt, coffee, milk chocolate and caramel with touch of cocoa powder. Dry finish and light bitterness. Pleasant one. No ABV stated on the label.

3.5 Bottle @home, (Clear out the cellar evening). Pours almost black, tan head. Nose is coffee, caramel, licorice. Taste is dark chocolate, toffee, slight coffee, slight licorice.

3.4 Bottle at nicks... Dark black.. Small tan head.. Soft sweet toffee.. Caramel toffee roast malts nose.. Soft sweet toffee. Dry toffee chocolate roast malts.. Dry chocolate roast malts

4.0 For this low ABV, godlike. Superb smooth vanilla, cocoa, bit watery in finish. Moderate to light sweetness with light bitterness. Very nice.

3.8 Beautiful porter aroma, chocolate, and vanilla. Tas is quite a lot chocolate and not bitter at all, vanilla and very milky.

3.8 12oz bottle (labelled Night Train) on 30th June 2017 at The Crown Inn, Oakengates. Black bodied, tanned topping. Nice malty forward beer, smooth bodied and almost rich in texture: very drinkable.

3.7 ami Rami is drinking a Night Rain by O’so Brewing Company at Konstruktorska Business Center Sporo palonosci, najs cialo, kawa, kakao i co najdziwniejsze - cos w rodzaju ciasta kokosowo-bananowego. Dziwny aromat ale fajny. Bdb Rami Rami: W tym ciescie jest jeszcze karmel Rami Rami: takie jakies przyprawowo-pieprzowe nutki tez sa

3.4 Backlogi z kilku ostatnich tygodni - ciąg dalszy. Wyrazista paloność, spora goryczka, delikatnie popiołowe, dość wyraziste nuty dymu. Fajne.

3.2 Almost black with minimal beige head. Slight coffee aroma. Strong bitterness, roasted grain, coffee and chocolate notes, some malty sweetness, however bit too flat, something is missing.... Lasting bitter aftertaste.

3.9 Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is roasted malt, cocoa, coffee, creamy milk chocolate, espresso, mocha, and caramel. Flavour is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Body is a little above medium and mildly creamy. Splendid Porter with cocoa, coffee, creamy milk chocolate, espresso and mocha. Just the way I like my Porter.