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Yuengling Porter

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

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4 Comments

  • Reply Casey (EvilTwin)

    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 am
  • Reply Scott-TheBrewClub

    I 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
  • Reply Mike

    @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 am
  • Reply Scott-TheBrewClub

    Price 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
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