A good porter beer?!
Answers: I would like to find a new porter beer. I'm a Guinness person, but I'd like to change it up every now and then, so I'm trying to find a new porter (or a dark stout beer that's not a lager, ale, or similar).
There are a lot of good American porters out there. The problem is availability, since most microbrewers market only regionally. Anchor or Sierra Nevada both make and mass-market porters.
Sam Smith's is another good choice, since they have some great porters and stouts, Taddy, Oatmeal Stout, Imperial Stout.
Also, you might want to give some of these a try: Rogue Chocolate Stout, Brooklyn Chocolate Stout, Old Peculiar, MacEwan's Scotch Ale.
All great dark beers.
samuel smith taddy porter is excellent. a bit pricey, though.
Anchor makes a great one. Yeungling dose a real good job to.
And porter is by definition an ale, although most of the ones you get are lagered. Yeungling I know lagers theirs.
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout is also a great choice - but make sure you try it at room temperature first. Coldness kinda ruins the flavor of very dark beers.
Stovepipe Porter from Otter Creek, if you can find it....Sierra Nevada has a pretty good one...Also, St. Peter's from England (comes in a cool style bottle) but might be harder to find...not sure where you're looking.
Okocim Baltic Porter from Poland is very tasty. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is excellent also.