Steve, the porter tastes good, perhaps slightly on the sweet side, but that's fine for a taddy porter.
Denny, I think I'm going to start mashing lower and longer, or doing step mashes. I usually fare better when I do either of those. I just don't get it though. It seems like all kinds of people will mash at 154 for 60 minutes and their beer attenuates to 1.010 or whatever...I just don't know how.