Santa Fe State Pen Porter

Santa Fe State Pen Porter

A trademark beer of the Santa Fe Brewing Company’s master brewer, Ty Levis, the State Pen Porter has every reason to be one of his favorites. It is flavorful, swimming with notes of nuts and chocolate; it is drinkable, so drinkable that it is almost as if pint after pint were drinking itself; and it packs a punch, so much so that its drinkability rapidly gives way to a euphoric intoxication that only a true Porter drinker can understand.
Malts: 2-row pale, 30-37 l. Crystal, 70-80 l. Crystal, Chocolate.
Hops: Cluster, Cascade, Willamette.
3.5
282 reviews
Santa Fe, United States

Community reviews

4.0 Bottle at the DC Gathering. Thanks DCLawyer. Dark brown with beige head. Aromas of caramel, toffee. Tastes of caramel, chocolate, toffee, roast. Medium body with a dry finish.
3.3 Dry Porter with hints of chocolate. Very pronounced hops flavoring.
3.6 12 ounce bottle from my friend Ryan. The beer is a darker brown with a khaki colored head of foam. The aroma has a good roasty charred character with a subtle caramel sweetness throughout. Medium sweetness, but the finish has some mild bitterness coming through. Medium body and medium carbonation.
3.6 Bottle pours a deep brown with a fair head. Aroma of roasted malt, dark chocolate, nit of coffee and nuts. Taste of roasted malt, dark chocolate, nuts with trace of coffee. Nice bitterness and a fairly dry finish. Medium body, smooth and quite creamy. Nice feel for the style. Enjoyable beer that goes down easy.
4.0 Poured from a 12oz into a Scotch Silly glass. Pours brown with head and lace. Aromas of dark malts, dark chocolate, minerals, earth. Medium carbonation and significant mouthfeel. Flavors of dark roasty malts, bitter chocolate, carob, minerals, roasted peanuts. Overall rich, flavorful, tasty.
3.5 1 pint on tap @ Matador, Santa Fe. Pours very dark red with a low tan head. Aroma is roasted malts and coffee. Flavor is sweet roasted malts, coffee and some hops. Nice.
3.5 Beer of month club. Pours a dark, dark brown with no head. Nose is coffee and roasted malt. Taste is a chewy black licorice with some coffee and a bit nutty. Very easy to drink, good stuff.
3.3 Rated based on notes taken 11 Jun 2012 -- Not many notes on this sample. Good porter.
3.5 Bottle 12 oz at Beerville Beer shop Belgrade Serbia.Thanks Milos for bringing this bottles from USA.Taste with him and Vlada ciaoooo.20.05.2015.Pour it dark color with small white head.On the nose herbs. Taste and aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, some salty finish, nuts.Really good balanced.Ok
3.8 12 oz bottle This is another of the 12 beers per month as a gift. This porter is excellent. The porter pours a pitch black with tan head and no lacing. Rich aromas of chocolate and licorice greet you. This is one the best I have had. The medium body porter had soft carbonation. As it sits on the palate chocolate and nuts last long on the tongue.
3.5 Black pour, tan head. Nose is black patent malt and coco nibs. More sweet than bitter. Middle is coffee and smooth grain. Finish shows a hint of bitterness giving way to dark malt sweetness.
3.9 12oz bottle at The Bayou Dark brown with a medium sized tan head, good lacing. Aroma of chocolate, dark malts and roast coffee. Taste of chocolate, coconut and coffee
4.0 Tasted from bottle at 2015 St. Louis Microfest into a willi becher glass. It poured an opaque black colour with persistent beige foam. Crisp graininess, caramelly, toasty, mildly roasty. Great aromatic/biscuity malt notes. Hints of coffee, chocolate, dark fruits, slight tartness. Nice English ale esters. Medium body and carbonation, complex aftertaste. Well-crafted and tasty.
3.3 12 oz bottle. (Whole Foods) Las Vegas, NV. Black colour with a tiny light tan head. Roasted malt, mild coffee, liquorice and sweat in the aroma. The flavour is roasted malt, mild ashy dryness, mild milky sweetness and some hoppy notes. Quite thin.
4.0 A black pour with a lightly tan head. It has a big aroma full of chocolate, nuts, licorice, and mild coffee. The medium body has creamy texture and average carbonation. The taste is mildly sweet and roasted with a silky finish.
3.5 3/2/15. From bottle at The Bayou in Salt lake city. Dark brown with a tan head. Roasted malt, chocolate, hints of coffee. Medium carbonation. Light bitter finish.
3.7 Bottle. Pours a near-black color with a rather large tan head on there. Nose is toastier than it is roasty, but has a nice dry black coffee smell to it. Taste is dark and roasty, and nicely drinkable. Good dry porter and fairly light.
3.3 Bottle at daks house, this was tart, which seems to be infected, roasty and bitter
2.6 From a bottle. Pours extremely dark. Hints of malts, coffee, and nuts. Taste of roasted nutty flavors throughout; almost a burnt coffee taste. Not my favorite porter, that's for sure.
3.2 bottle shared with hakes dr at the club w in Norwalk, dark lour with slight off white head, aroma is weird, hard to pint out, but takste is chalky but good, I dig it overall
3.3 Bottle. Very mild flavor for a porter. Hints of chocolate malt, but not too obtrusive. Drinkable.
3.6 dark brown with a pleasant, roasty aroma; a great, smooth, medium bodied, easy drinking porter with a slight roasted malt flavor
4.1 Bottle. Deep clear brown color, beige head. Nice roasty aroma with cocoa nibs, vanilla, espresso, lightly burnt edge. Taste is coffee, dark chocolate, nutty edge. Delicious.
3.8 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours a deep brown, with a small tan head that quickly fades. Decent lacing. Nose is faint notes of malt and nuts. taste is of dark malt, with a light body and some hop bitterness on the short finish. Not bad.
3.5 Bottle. Pours chestnut brown with a beige head. Nutty sweet and lightly roasted malts, faint chocolate, and some light bitterness in the finish. Pretty good.
3.5 "Pretty decent porter. Nice roasted malt, coffee, light chocolate dark fruit aroma. Flavor also has hints of nuts and Carmel. Feel would be very smooth but for a slight overcarbonation, leaving it just a touch pricklier than wanted. Finishes semi sweet and dry."
3.7 12 oz bottle pours black with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, cocoa and coffee. Taste is malts and chocolate.
2.9 Very tasty porter. Malts, chocolate, coffee, nutty. Deep deep roasted nutty flavors throughout- almost a burnt coffee flavor. Very bold flavor and if you’re not into the heavy coffee notes this might not be for you. Sweet, a wee bit bitter.
3.5 Bottle. Clear dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, light coffee and nut. Flavor is roasted malt, coffee, nuts, light caramel and vanilla. Light bodied, smooth with a slightly dry finish.
3.0 Bottle: Super dark with an off-white head. Aroma of burnt wood, semi-sweet chocolate. Taste is initially sweet like chocolate cola with a malty aftertaste. Fairly thin body and doesn’t seem to have the slick oily feel of many porters. Ok,