beer_name: Smoke (Smoked Porter)
text: Received this from my Secret Santa! Thanks! Pours near black with a 1 finger tan head, fading to film leaving a spot of lacing or two. Aroma opens up with campfire smoke and burnt toast. A bit of dark chocolate to balance it out. Taste follows with some semi-sweet chocolate and roasted bitterness balancing a moderate level of smoke. Smoke is medium-thin bodied with moderate to low carbonation, which works more or less for the flavor profile and helps drinkability. I'm not really a fan of smoked beers, but this one wasn't too awful. It wasn't horribly smoky or terribly unbalanced or biased towards the smoke flavors, it actually had redeeming porter characteristics. I tolerated it.