Geoff's awesome Porter and some other crap (unrelated to Geoff's awesome Porter) I've got...

So there on the left is a photo I grabbed of Geoff's Porter.. a sweet Porter, I think he said. I could be wrong. I think I'll just call it a Brown Porter, cause I'm more familiar with that style. Cause it, well, exists. You know. Anyway.

This beer was left in my fridge in a 22oz bomber. As such, I found it only fitting to pour the whole damn thing into a 22oz Dogfish Head mega-snifter and drink the whole stinkin' thing at once. I enjoyed doing so. I poured a medium brown beer into the glass and found a moderate head of foam resting on top, as seen in the pic. It lasted some time up there, maybe two minutes or so. The beer itself was somewhat hazy.. I was sorta lackadaisical on my pour of this bottle conditioned beer, and may have flubbed a bit of yeast in there, so I'll not hold that against Geoff. I get the aroma of malt, and maybe a hint of roastiness as well, but not much. Checking my style guidelines against the notes I took as I drank this, so far, I *should* be detecting a mild roastiness and maybe a bit of caramel or nutty/bready-ness as well.. which I think I could see here. The malt aroma was "soft" and "fluffy", for whatever that means in the world of taste. The book says I should have a clear beer here, but like I said.. I wasn't watching my pour that much as I knew this was gonna be a dark beer. We'll do better next time. I found the bitterness to be right in the middle.. perhaps a bit on the maltier side than bitter, but definitely in the balanced zone. The taste was smooth and creamy on the palate.. easily drinkable. Perhaps that creaminess was a touch of diacetyl, which would be OK per style, but I couldn't detect any of that in the aroma. I found a tiny little ester or three of fruitiness hiding in here as I drank, but not much. Carbonation was right in the ballpark, as it ranges all over the map for this style.

All in all, I'd say this beer was fairly well on the nose. The only thing I didn't get from it was a bit of "stellar". It was a really nice, solid brew.. something you could fall back on any time and have a good drink. I think I'd like to see a it of something else in the center there... maybe a bit of chocolate flavor, or a really mild roast.. something to layer it up a bit and give a hair more complexity, but otherwise, I'd probably not change much else. Really a solid hit right there, Geoff.

I think Geoff needs to throw down with some numbers in the comments section here.. O.G., F.G., ABV, IBU's, Recipe and Hops.. give us an idea of what we're dealing with.

In other news, as you all may or may not know, I've been doing battle with that keg of American Wheat leftover from my New Years party. The damn thing just won't die. Today, I went off the deep end when I heard it gurgling but couldn't do it in.. so I called in a heavy hitter: Frank Aiudi.

I gave Frank two pint glasses and sent him off to the garage.. and almost had to avert my eyes when I saw the death blow coming.. but it came nonetheless. It was inevitable. Frank kicked the keg. It took only a pint and a half of Frank's mighty trigger finger on the pony tap, but the foam burst forth halfway through the second pint glass.. and that was it. She was gone. Expiring in a mighty burst of carbonated froth. Never stood a chance.

So long green-apple-tasting American Wheat.. you put up a hell of a fight! Salute!

Tomorrow, I put the carbonating tap on the third iteration of the Roggen, rack my funky Jolly Pumpkin yeast Pale Ale into a keg, and set my sights on the next keg target.

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