Stoutmaker.beer

I’m at Glass Nickel Pizza today and I see they are putting up a new beer on tap.

Mobcraft Vanilla Wafer Porter. Sounds “interesting” so let’s give it a shot.

It is a nitro pour that seems to be a bit more active than the tender anticipated, but we finally got one poured and it looks pretty good.

Trying to get a good nose on it, but that damn nitro really covers most of it up. But there is still a good amount of chocolate and a sweetness here,, but like a cookie kinda sweet, not sugar. Not much for roast though.

This is a terrible pic of it,, but the beer is just on the line of dark brown and black. Nice highlights and that head laces all the way down.

When we get to tasting this, the first thing that gets you is the chocolate. Almost cake like,, but strangely,, no vanilla, unless you think Nilla Wafers taste like vanilla.

There is enough roast to call this a porter, but its really on the low side,, not sure where else this would fall so yea,, I’ll agree with porter.

There is no, or very little hop taste here, but the bitterness level really plays good with the sweet. The balance of this is quite admirable as this could have easily been overly sweet.

The 7% totally goes unnoticed with the huge body that I’m not convinced is due to the nitro. Feels like good old mash technique.

I gotta say that I like this beer quite a bit more than I expected. It’s light roast, chocolate, and pastry notes all come together well.

I gave this a 3/5,, but as it’s warming I could go higher now that the roast is peeking thru a little more.