Name – Yuengling Porter
Country – United States
Type – American Porter
Appearance – Pours a very dark brown color with a nice sized light brown head that does stick around a bit a leave some lacing on the glass.
Smell – Roasted and chocolate malts up front. There is a slight bit of coffee smell in the back as well.
Taste – Again we find the roast and chocolate malts but there is a nice sweetness to it as well. A little bit of nuttiness in there as followed by some coffee and this is a really nice taste.
We I visited the original Yuengling brewery a few years back I sampled this in the sample room and loved it. Unfortunately it was no where to be found in South Florida. We could only get the Lager, Light Lager and Black & Tan in stores here despite their major brewery in Tampa. We on our trip up to Tampa I was thrilled to see six packs of Porter and jumped on it. Now that I have brought it back I am now seeing Porter and Lord Chesterfield Ale hitting shelves down here as well. While it is still worth it that I picked this up in Tampa I am so happy to see we are finally getting other stuff from America’s Oldest Brewery. This is my favorite of their brews.
Overall Grade – A



4 Comments
I just had this one on Saturday. Walked into Total Wine and saw it on the shelf and thought “this either gonna make Mike really happy or pissed.” It was a great find and drink.
August 2, 2010 at 9:02 amI bought a sixer of this awhile back – (being in NJ we find most of their stuff easily)and I have one left in the fridge waiting for review.
Gotta say I wasn’t as impressed with this Porter and found it to be everything that you mentioned but toned-down and thin bodied. The price was great though!
August 2, 2010 at 9:39 am@Casey – I am very happy. It’s about time.
@Scott – I like that it is thinner in body. Makes it a great sessionable porter. Right up there with Anchor Porter. And yeah you are right about the price.
August 2, 2010 at 11:27 amPrice is down there with the crappy macros most of the time. I’d say for the money, its tough beating them!
August 4, 2010 at 9:29 am