2016 Craft Beer Cellar Advent Box: Day 14

Advent Beer Day 14:

Anchor 2016 Christmas Ale

It's always fun to get this year's Anchor Christmas beer. This year's seems darker than I remember. It tastes like a porter, with chocolate malt flavors, but not very chocolaty. I taste allspice and perhaps apples with a long sweet finish. A good showing this year.

2016 Craft Beer Cellar Advent Box: Day 13

Advent Beer Day 13:

Riverwalk Storm Door Porter

First thing that hits you is a blast of chocolate, then you get a subtle vanilla flavor followed by spices like cloves and mace. Really, it's all chocolate. For those of you who have brewed, it has that flavor deep on the back of your throat that you get from the dust that is worked up when you mill chocolate malt: slightly grassy, slightly sweet, slightly burnt and chocolatey. Did I mention chocolate?

2016 Craft Beer Cellar Advent Beer Day 11

Advent Beer Day 11:
pot & kettle oatmeal porter from Trillium

This porter tastes halfway between coffee and chocolate, but not really like either one.  It has a very smooth and creamy texture and a lingering sweetness on back of the tongue, but not too sweet. A very nice selection.

Craft Beer Cellar Advent Beer Day 9

Alta Gracia Coffee Porter from Wolver's Organic Brewing was today's Advent beer surprise. It had notes of coffee, burnt barley and vanilla. It seems perfectly good, but I don't have sufficient love for cold coffee flavors.