Pipeline Porter

Kona Brewing Company

Kona Pipeline Porter - 5.3% ABV

Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0

"Pipeline Porter is smooth and dark with a distinctive roasty aroma and earthy complexity from its diverse blends of premium malted barley. This celebration of malt unites with freshly roasted 100% Kona coffee grown at Cornwell Estate on Hawaii’s Big Island, lending a unique roasted aroma and flavor. A delicate blend of hops rounds out this palate-pleasing brew."

This beer as you can see pours a nice dark rich brownish black color. Well unlike many beers that are brewed with coffee this one smells and tastes like it. You instantly get the coffee aroma and also aromas of dark chocolate and malt. It's nice and rich but not as much so as a stout. I've heard if you use a tulip glass you'll get a bigger head and the aromas stand out even more. Once you taste it you immediately get that nice dark coffee flavor. Again many "coffee" flavored beers I've had you can barely tell there's any coffee flavor in it. With the pipeline porter the coffee flavor is there right off the bat and it lingers for a while, but it's not too strong. You also get flavors of brown sugar and roasted sweet malt as you'd expect. I really liked the lingering bitter sweet taste. Sort of like an espresso but in your beer heh.