Yuengling Porter
2 Aug
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
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.
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!
@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.
Price is down there with the crappy macros most of the time. I’d say for the money, its tough beating them!