Hand Crafted Porter
Black Creek Historic Brewery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Porter
Saturday 10 March 2012 – 5%Alc./Vol. 76 / 100
Initial Thoughts
Another great looking bottle from Black Creek. Brown glass filled with blackish liquid. A paper label with an old-fashioned feel, yet again... A welcoming burnt chestnut colored beer. Wow, this one smells chocolatey!
First Sip
None of the charred character of Black Creek’s Stout. This one has a nice, almost nutty quality.
Halfway Through
I have to say that after the incinerated character of the Stout from this brewery, I wasn’t holding out much hope for this porter. But, I wouldn’t want people judging my siblings based on having known me, so fair is fair; and this is the fairer sibling.
Bottoms Up
Where his brother Stout greets you with a punch in the middle of your face, the more civilized Porter offers a courteous nod and raise of the glass. A bit of an aside, finding both a stout and a porter from the same brewer is interesting. In both my experience and research, the differences between the two are very much like the differences between fraternal twins; they come from the same stuff, they share a very similar history, one may have been around longer than the other, but in the end they are just “different”. In the case of the Black Creek twins, let the record show, I prefer the Porter.
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