Samuel Smiths Taddy Porter

[glitterbug]

Tried this tonight, and I really like it. I've been trying different stouts and porters lately and this one has some nice flavors. What porters and stouts do you like?

[celevar]

If it doesn't have "I" or "RI" in front of it, I am not a huge fan of stouts...I guess I like some "O" varieties as well. A plain stout doesn't do it for me.

[blatz]

Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Smuttynose Porter
Smuttynose Baltic Porter
Anchor Porter
Gonzo Imperial Porter

Bell's Kalamazoo Stout
Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout
Lefthand Milk Stout
Old Rasputin Imperial Stout
Great Divide Yeti
Bell's Expedition
Great Lakes Blackout Stout
Stone IRS
Smuttynose RIS

I'm sure I left out some, but those are some faves off the top of the old noggin

[BrewingRover]

Let's see. Porters
Anchor Porter
Sierra Nevada Porter
Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
Fullers London Porter - great, but absolutely fantastic when cask conditioned
Flossmoor Station Pullman Brown -- they call it a Brown but it's more of a robust porter


Stouts
Guinness
Old Rasputin
Surly Darkness
Bell's Double Cream Stout
Goose Island Oatmeal Stout
Rogue Shakespeare Stout

My RIS, a pint of which I just finished

I love both of these styles as there are so many ways to go with them. Dry, creamy, big, robust, etc., etc.

[dmtaylo2]

On a scale of 1 to 10, I give 9s and 10s to:

Brooklyn Chocolate Stout
Founder's Canadian Breakfast Stout
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Hinterland Bourbon Barrel Stout
Lakefront Snake Chaser Irish Stout
Left Hand Milk Stout
Lion Stout
New Glarus Coffee Stout
New Holland Dragon's Milk Stout
Okocim Baltic Porter
Samuel Smith Taddy Porter
Sand Creek Oscar's Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

I've lumped all mine together as I tend not to differentiate much between porters and stouts, because one brewery's stout is the next brewery's porter. It's very blurry these days. And historically, stout is really just a darker porter anyway, with perhaps a bigger charge of roasted barley for that certain coffee-ish flavor. But I challenge you -- if blindly handed a random porter and a random stout, you might be hard-pressed to determine the difference, especially if blindfolded and from different breweries.

[vpsihop1]

sinebrychoff porter

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/264/2758

pretty darn good, from finland