As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Robust Porter calls for a very dark, opaque beer with cocoa and caramel sweetness balanced by firm dark malt bitterness, 5.1 to 6.6 percent ABV and 25 to 40 IBU. The brewery's published strength exceeds the cited range; commercial bitterness remains unverified.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2022
Great American Beer Festival
Robust Porter
Gold
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Robust Porter
Gold
Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.
Brewery Context
Bartlett Hall is in San Francisco, CA. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Brewpub.
Not Found: Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked untappd.com, bartletthall.com, beerandbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
Research Notes
Field pass 2026-10-13: The separate brewery menu page names Powell Street Porter but publishes no IBU or hop varieties for it. The homebrew adaptation already discussed was not reused as commercial evidence.
Both likely brewery domains failed with TLS certificate errors in the first pass; this pass successfully read the brewery menu.
The session's web search budget ran out before Untappd or press for this beer could be searched.
No 2026 medal announcement was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13: The brewery menu now opens and supplies the adopted strength and style. Untappd lists 6.4% ABV, while the Craft Beer & Brewing five-gallon homebrew adaptation targets 6.3% ABV and 33 IBU. Those recipe figures were not treated as commercial specifications; ingredient details were not visible in the fetched article.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery menu gives the tasting words and 6.8% ABV; no hops or malts.