JP's Yabba Dhaba Chai Tea Porter

The can features the slogan, "Discover". The JP stands for James Page Brewing Company. They were one of the original craft brewers based out of the Twin Cities, beginning in 1986 and peaking with some regional popularity in the upper Midwest in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Alas, they went out of business, but the brand has been revived and is now contract brewed by Stevens Point, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. This beer is 5.5% ABV and uses clove, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, and anise.

The beer pours mahogany in color with a ruby tint. There is a good inch of thick and creamy head, very light brown in color. The aroma is like a cola, RC especially, with cherry, spices, highly browned sugar. The taste is like a spiced cherry cola with dark roasted malt in the background, at first sweet, but with a moderately bitter and dry ending. It is medium bodied, crisply carbonated, easy drinking. Interesting, but not sustaining, this is the most cola like beer I have ever had.