Stone Smoked Porter w/ Chipotle Peppers

First post.  By Lord Gerlach himself  (old lacrosse reference).

A quick preface.  Me and Jordan Yergler, or Jordinho - if you can't pronounce that correctly you must more of a sheltered life than Brendan Fraser did in Blast From The Past - (who lives back in Tacoma, WA), used to do beer reviews and post them on each others Facebook.  So we came up with this wicked cool idea to collaborate and just post on here.  You'll be able to tell the styles of writing apart, and we will reference it.  This should be fun and each post will be short.  Stay tuned.

So I remember talking beers with a fellow Marine beer fan, and this beer came up.  My opinion is drastically different from his.

Stone Smoked Porter w/ Chipotle Peppers (5.9%).  I wish I had a regular one to side by side compare it with, but whatever.  When I poured the beer I was expecting an overwhelming aroma of chipotle, but just got a very subtle bite.  It tastes very similar to the smoked porter (as it should), but with perhaps more of a woody, maybe oak flavor.  A solid malt character and not bitter at all for a porter.  It reminds me of what Guinness SHOULD be.  (Note, I'm not a Guinness hater in a Irish Pub, but beyond that - get over yourself it's not thick and the flavor is minimal).  I get a subtle hint of heat at the end of each drink, with it becoming more pronounced as the drink warms.  I almost get more of a black pepper flavor than chipotle though.  I liked it, a lot more than I thought I would.

4 of 5 BEERds

And sidenote to bullshit on.  I actually acted like a grown adult and did grown adult things the other day.  Like mop my hardwood floor for the first time since I moved in over 5 months ago.  Haha.  Then I went on a date to a wine tasting on an empty stomach and convinced multiple people that I grew up in Debron, Illinois on a farm with cows.  It was fun.