Electric Mud: Muddy York Porter

Muddy York Porter is a dark ale brewed by the eponymous Muddy York Brewing Co., in Toronto’s North East. It’s a 4.7% alcohol, 21 IBU porter sold in handsome, vintage, and somewhat macabre 500mL bottles. The beer within is a teak-hued grog with a determined cream head and an unexpected amount of carbonation.

MYP has a pleasant nose ornamented with toasty malt and cocoa notes. The flavour shares those elements, and supplements them with some herbal root beer notes, a faint tendril of smoke, and a respectably bitter finish.

The team at Muddy York have created a really enjoyable porter. It could be a wee bit heavier, perhaps, but it is admirably flavourful for a sub-five percenter, and far more complex than many of its beery peers.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10.