Porter Night

Johnny decided it was time for Porters, and in true BC4M tradition, we did it in a big way. Seven different porters. Someone should have recognized that drinking mass quantities of porters would be a horrific assault on the colon, but beer love is blind. We started strong with O-Porter, from Norway (7%). It was a good beer to start with, with a strong coffee flavor, yet light body and very drinkable. It had floaties in it, which was a little creepy, but one assumes that the alcohol sterilizes... or lets hope it does!This one rated a good. Bell's Porter (5.6%) was next. Bell's makes some good beers, but this one was just So/So. Yuengling Porter (4.7%) was next. I give Yuengling street cred for being America's oldest brewery. That said, this beer would be a good amber lager, but a piss poor porter! It sucked. D. Carnegie and Co. Stark Porter(5.5%) was next. This is a Swedish beer. It was more like a traditional porter and the group was split between so/so and good. Sinebrychoff Porter (7.2%) was next. This was a Finnish beer. It tasted good, but really smelled bad. Thus, the smell was this beers downfall and it rated a So/So. Founder's Porter (6.5%) was next. This was a nice beer, described as "dark, rich, and sexy". It rated a good. And to end the night, we finishe with Stone's Smoked Porter (5.9%). Stone beers are often over the top, but this beer, by contrast, was not as strong as we had hoped. It rated only a So/So. And with that the evening was over. The following day was spent expelling those same porters, which was nowhere nearly as fun as drinking them!