Port Brewing Santas Little Helper
Everything but the kitchen sink…Great Western Premium Two Row, Wheat, Carvienne, Caramunich, 95-115, 135-165L Crystal Malts, Chocolate, Roasted and Black Barley and Pale Chocolate. We also add some Brown Sugar and some Dark Belgian Candi Sugar to boost the Original Gravity. The beer is hopped with East Kent Goldings, Mt. Hood, Liberty, and Challenger. It is unfiltered with an OG of 1.094 and 10.0% ABV. Proprietary Ale Yeast.
3.9
1158 reviews
San Marcos, United States
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33 cl fles. Helder donker bruin van kleur, fijne romige bruine schuimkraag. De geur is chocolade en gebrande mout. Smaak is zoet, gebrande mout, koffie, vanille en chocolade. Vol lichaam, veel koolzuur.
Bottle. Dark brown black a little beige head. Chocolate milk, cinnamon, licorice aroma. Cocoa, bitter chocolate, creamy milky mouthfeel, thick body. Dark chocolate bitterness, ground cocoa powder remain on the palate. Dont get the coffee so much, but it's really good. I prefer rhis over the bourbon barrel version, it's way more balanced.
Don't know the brewer, don't know the beer but I do like imperial stouts, enough said. Acquired in California, brought home to Texas, the 12 oz bottle will be consumed tonight. I open and pour into my ABGB snifter, black, yes it is black, with a thin light brown crown of foam. Fragrant, I detect strawberry, wheat, something sweet. But the taste will abide. My my, very nice. Baker's chocolate, berry, baked bread, brown sugar and black licorice. Bitter but not a whole new chapter. Wish I had bought two, certainly next time.
Bottle, 2018 vintage. Rich roasted malt aroma with notes of chocolate, coffee, licorice and some vanilla. Pours deep brown with half a finger of mocha brown head that has excellent retention and good lacing. Starts with rich roasted malt, chocolate and licorice flavors as well as having a rich, full body and slick viscous mouthfeel. Finishes smooth with coffee and a little bit of vanilla flavors. Really nice imperial stout.
Aroma: Dark roasted malt with chocolate and notes of vanilla.
Flavour: Sweet roasted malt with chocolate, vanilla and slight licorice. Aftertaste is roasted malt.
Colour: Black with a tan head.
Santa's Little Helper has a thick, tan head, a very dark brown appearance, and moderate lacing. The aroma is of sweet malt, cream, and coffee. The flavor is similar, with minimal acrid char. Mouthfeel is high medium, and Santa's Little Helper finishes medium sweet. RJT
Bottle from Jeremy, 2008 vintage. This has held up extremely well. Pours black and flat. Malty, smoky, sweet. A bit dry at the finish.
24.12.2018, 0,65l bottle (few years old) @ home:
Big light brown fizzy-creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish boozy, dark sugar, dark malts, salty licorice, alcohol, tar, bark, minerals, raisins, toast, roasted grain, hints of espresso. Taste is slightly sweet boozy, dark sugar, salty licorice powder, bark, alcohol, toast, tar, soil, harsh hops, fruit stones, raisins, burnt coffee. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly harsh boozy mouthfeel, fizzy carbonation. Fair enough.
0,75 litre Bottle from Tavour. Black with little brown head. Roasted malts, coffee, some cocoa aroma, bitterness.
12oz Bottle from 2017: Pour is dark as a new moon night, held up to the light...nothing but black. Nice one finger cocoa colored head sits atop this brew. Initial aroma is of chocolate, dark fruit (raisin/prune) and a hint of alcohol. After letting the beer warm up the aroma seems to gain more of that dark fruit and some additional booziness. Flavor mimics the aroma almost perfectly, difference being, there is more heavy roasted malt than the aroma would indicate and the booziness is pretty well hidden. Mild carbonation, bitter finish. Nice beer, will buy again this year.
2008 vinatge...good nose of dark fruits and toasted malts, black with a good tan head, medium/full body, average carbonation, taste is similar, quite intense of toasted and some smoked notes...very good.
Aroma: chocolate, roasted malt.
Taste: powerful chocolate flavor, notes of resins, coffee and roasted malt. Warming. Great stout for windy evenings in San Francisco
From a Bottle to a glass. Pours a Dark brown black color with tan frothy head. Aroma is Chocolate coffee roasted malt dark fruit molasses and some hop bitterness balancing it all out. Taste follows the aroma well. Medium heavy mouthfeel. Very smooth and alcohol is hidden well. Excellent Beer!!!
Pours black with tan head. Roasty chocolate aroma. Big sweet chocolate flavor.
Notes: Bottle
Dark brown black with a thin tan head. Aroma of chocolate and roasted malt. Medium body, chocolate, coffee, light smoke, and a slight alcohol finish.
Draft from Daily Growler UA: black pour, medium beige head. aroma of roasted chickadee malts. tastes are dark chocolate, citrus peel, little milky sour, caramel, earthy, bit charred. background warmth, but covers well. quite nice.
Pours thick n oily into a British imperial pint glass with a beige foamy lather. Scent is potent and malty, notes of cacao and vanilla. Taste is toasted and syrupy, notes of expresso and lactose. Backend is long on creamy richness, Nutella comes to mind. A Stout to be recond with, cheers Port Brewing!
19th December 2017. Ordered as part of a Flight in Crush & Brew, Temecula. Really pleased to see this, another beer I have wanted to try it for some time (it shared stage with Alesmith's Horny Devil, Lost Abbey's Lost & Found and a beer from Ritual called Hellion). Black bodied, tanned head. Chocolate esters within the malty aroma, taste also dominated by the roasted malts and again dark chocolate was the main player. Liked it.
Bottle from Merchants. Aroma roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate, bready, warming, vanilla, slight booze, very nice. Appearance is dark dark brown, light brown head, poured thickish. Taste is roasted malt, licorice, dark chocolate, bready, vanilla, coffee, like a less intense or toned down version of Founders Imperial Stout. Mouthfeel is medium to heavy body, light carbonation, bitter licorice roasty aftertaste. Overall, this one is super solid.
50 cl bottle - I expected much more of this. After five years of age, this beer did not evolve in something incredible tasty. Would not try this again. A little plain.
Bottle sampled in a glass,
this beer was a dark brown (almost black) in the glass and it had a tan cover,
the nose had roasted malt, some intense roasted malt notes, dark cocoa, chocolate, some coffee, nutty, dark bread, citrus and earthy hops,
a hint of dark fruit – prune and fig, a little cinnamon and faint pepper, faint earth,
brown sugar and some molasses sweetness,
the flavors were big roasted malt, some intense roasted malt, a little dark chocolate, coffee, dark fruit,
a little spice in the background, faint earth note,
brown sugar, a bit of molasses with malt sweetness,
the finish had a roasted malt bitterness that lingered on the tongue,
the mouth feel was more than medium towards the full side, there was average carbonation, and it was a bit creamy on the lips, there was a hint of warmth on the mouth and throat,
a good impy beer.
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Piana obfita, opada zdobi szkło, resztka jej pozostaje do końca. Kolor Czarny. Aromat palone słody, czekolada, słodki owocowy, nuty dymne, chmielowe klasyczne. Smak wysoka palonośc, kwaskowo od palonych słodów, równie intensywna gorzka czekolada, suszone owoce, pełnia, słodycz nie przytłaczająca, wraz z wysoką goryczką idzie na finiszu ostrość, chropowatość, lekko alkohol w likierową nutę. Piwo gładkie w strukturze, smaki grają, po ogrzaniu smaki się otwierają i dostajemy konkretnego RISa brakuje tu jedynie beczki dębiny i wanilii, wersja OAK czeka. Bardzo Dobre.
Sweet, decadent RIS, massive swaths of dark chocolate, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, and anise percolating over a surprisingly firm hop bill, leading to a dry, roasty finish. Pours a viscous black with a thick brown head and good lacing. Nose is straight mocha. Thick texture holds a manageable but present boozy warmth. Nice beer.
Aroma of chocolate. Heavy coffee taste and light carbonation. Chocolate aftertaste lingers beautifully. A little more hop notes after it warms.
At Max Place, pours black with a beige head, aroma of chocolate, coffee, tangerine, flavor of chocolate, coffee, tangerine, medium to full bodied
1PT6oz bomber bb:N/A (vintage?), via fairly priced Bier&Co. - Bref: satisfying oldschool ImpStout with more roasty coal and liquorice character than childish candy sweetness. Has that leather and old manure astringency of original UK ImpStouts, SamSmith style, with a more pronounced coffee bean roast woven deep into its silky texture. Bitters equally distributed over hedgerow hops and roast, softly mitigated by brown sugars. Austere in a way that it urgently invites a blue cheese pairing or vanilla ice cream float.
Bottle 0.66l sample at Ratebeer Belgian Winter Gathering 2017 Antwerp, Belgium at Beerlovers Bar 25.02.2017. Thanks everybody for sharing great beers! First Batch 2009. Pour it dark color with no head. Aroma ginger, pine, molasis. Taste really kick of molasis, sweet caramel, sticky feel, some bourbon notes, candy sugar, heavy cloying sweetness, medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, long finish. Nice!
Black, thick tan head. Aroma has roasted malt, coffee. Roasted flavour, malty, notes of dark sugar. Hoppy finish.
Bottle. Pours cloudy very dark brown with big and stable tan head. Clear aroma of roast and coffee, with notes of malt and yeast. Roasty and coffeelike flavour with notes of yeast and hops and touches of fruit. Roasty and coffeelike aftertaste. Well-balanced and decent.
Bottle, 10.5%. Minty aroma?! Black colour. Big stable brown head. The flavour is quite roasted and a little bready. Good mouthfeel. The alcohol is well-hidden, but a bit rough in the finish.