Samuel Adams Holiday Porter
12-oz bottle poured into a pint glass. A = Dark reddish, brown, large tan foamy head, lots of great lacing. S = Fresh smell of hops cuts through a good sweet malt scent with traces of chocolate and spice. Fairly complex smell and well balanced. T = Taste is a little too sour for me. It has a lot of bitterness, but there is also just a plain sour taste at the first taste, a sweetness then start pushing through in the middle so by the finish there is an interesting sweet/tart finish. The whole though is not as well balanced as the smell suggested it would be. Good, but not great. M = Light to medium bodied, good carbonation, fair mouth coating. As with th etaste, good but not great. I think it should have had a little more body. That would have increased my score for sure. D = This is a pleasant drinkable beer. The faults I noted would not stop me from having a second of these immediately or from having more in the future. A nice Winter porter.