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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Pig Iron Porter if you want roasted chocolate depth,
Stimalti Porter if you want a lighter, more sessionable take.
Both sit at that perfect 5–5.5% range where you can actually taste the grain work without getting knocked around. The IBU difference is negligible—we're talking maybe one extra hop leaf between them. Pick based on how heavy you want your night to feel.
At a glance
Generated from the four anchored axes — never hand-written.
Beer DNA
Body
Δ 2
Sweetness
Δ 5
Situations
In words
Pig Iron Porter
Pig Iron hits you with real cocoa and a hint of coffee char on the front. There's a slight burnt-grain edge that keeps it from feeling sweet—it's dry in the finish, which is exactly what you want when a porter could easily go cloying. The 5% ABV lets the malt complexity sing without any alcohol bite.
Stimalti Porter
Stimalti is smoother and more approachable, almost creamy compared to Pig Iron. The roast is there but softer, leaning more toward dark bread than espresso. It drinks lighter on your palate, which sounds like a weakness until you realize that's the whole point—this is a porter that doesn't demand your full attention.
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Similarly built
Within Δ 2. Neither reads as noticeably fuller on this axis.
Body 71 vs 73 · Δ 2
Bitterness
Δ 3
Texture
Δ 4
Only Pig Iron Porter
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Shared character
Only Stimalti Porter