Tonight I went to Schlafly's Taproom to pick up some brewing supplies and have dinner. Schlafly recently added the smoked porter to their line up at the Taproom. I have never seem the smoked porter offered by Schlafly so this is a completely new beer to me, and maybe to Schlafly.
The smell of the beer was very light, just a bit of smoke aroma. The color was a very dark brown almost back, with almost no head, just a light ring around the top of the glass.
The taste has a medium smoke to it giving the beer a camp fire taste and leather taste, but not so strong that is tastes bad. Along with the smoke I am getting a slight hint of hop flavor and dark malt toasty flavor. The beer has some bitterness in the finish.
For a smoked beer the smoke taste is well balanced against other flavors. When I think of smoke beers the first thing I think of is a beer O'Fallon brewery made was loaded with so much smoke I couldn't drink it. I wouldn't order this beer again, but over all this is not a bad beer.
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