Sap Sucker

Label: Sap Suker Maple Porter
Type: Porter
ABV[%]: 5.5
Packaging: 750 ml
Brewery: Fernie Brewing Company
Smell: Maple! Wood
Head: Beautifully thick with a wonderful lacing
Color: almost black but not cloudy
Carbonation: medium
Kick: medium
Rating: 7/10

Notes:
This is a sweet molassesy beer with a maple flavour. It is worth getting just for the head itself. It leaves a slightly silky aftertaste and the initial flavour is slightly bitter. You can taste and almost imagine carmelized sugars when they were brewing this beer.

I only gave it a 7 but only because I'm not a huge porter fan. Having said that, the taste is fresh and it pours into the glass wonderfully. It also has a bit of hoppiness to it but in the end the barley flavours mixed in with the maple are teh tones that hit you. Nice.

The brewery is based out of -you guessed it- Fernie, who like many other breweries in BC are cashing in on the craft brewery explosion on the west coast. It won't be on my must-drink list but I am pleased to see a competitive porter from the interior. Besides Blackheart, there aren't many stouts brewed well from in the mountain ranges of BC... Or are there?

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