Our Tastes-- Samuel Adams Maple Pecan Porter

Always throwing out new micro batches, I follow Jim into the realm of Maple Pecan Porter. Part of some fall pack I picked up MPP pours a superb, medium brown with excellent off-white head. The nose is of a sweet nutty porter, but the taste even Merry liked! Mouthfeel is full and maple syrup sweet with a rush of the slightly bitter yet distinct pecan on the sides of the tongue with your coffee in between. Porters have long been a favorite style of mine in that you are sometimes able to transition well from summer palate to the hibernating stout mouth with relative ease, but there truly 3 distinct phases of flavor in this beer (I can't remember noticing 3 absolute different levels in one brew). I think there must be a buttermilk pancake at the bottom of the fermenter. Hop profile is light and almost undetectable through the syrup and pecans. An oddity but another keepsie at 5.6%.