Seasonal - Winter. Has been available bottle conditioned.
This is a specially crafted rum porter. Rich, dark and warming, it is perfect for those cold evenings. Hints of rum mingle with coffee and vanilla flavours, a truly wonderful old style beer.
Maris Otter pale malt, crystal malt, chocolate malt, roasted barley, wheat malt.
Challenger and Bramling Cross hops.
This is a specially crafted rum porter. Rich, dark and warming, it is perfect for those cold evenings. Hints of rum mingle with coffee and vanilla flavours, a truly wonderful old style beer.
Maris Otter pale malt, crystal malt, chocolate malt, roasted barley, wheat malt.
Challenger and Bramling Cross hops.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Cask at the moon under water jdw. Aroma is earthy wood and vanilla and some milk chocolate sweetness. Dark ruby red colour clear with a looseoff white head. Flavour is dull nutty cardboard malts with touch of choc roast in the finish. Relatively sweet and some mineral. Medium watery palate.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Jan 2014
at 12:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Hand-pulled pint in the lovely ’Grapes’, A Bath Ales owned pub in Oxford on 22 Nov 13. Nice dark body, leaning toward black from a dark brown base, on top a tanned crown. The aroma was spicy and malty with some dark fruit esters thrown in for good measure. Taste wise it followed the smell nicely, malty molasses giving it a semi-sweet flavour, where was my Rum though? It’s supposed to laced with it I believe. Anyway I enjoyed it and thought it more a ’Winter Warmer’ than any sort of Porter. Fairly deep and almost rich body, well made and easy to sup.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2013
at 02:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Gravity Dispense at White Horse Parsons Green, Old Ale Festival - 23/11/12. Very dark mahogony brown with no head. Nose is toffee, caramel, light antiseptic, wood. Taste follows on, dark fruit, light booze, no sign of any rum! Medium bodied, very limited carbonation, smooth on the palate. Bit of a let down!
Tried
on 17 Dec 2012
at 14:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at The White Horse on Parsons Green, London during the 2012 Old Ale Festival. Pours clear brown with a light, tan cream head. Semi-dark malt nose, some fruits. Dark bread flavor, some toast, dark fruits. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet, dark malt finish, some dark sugars, faint earthy bitterness, more dark bread. It’s OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Dec 2012
at 10:50
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Gravity dispense at White Horse SW6. It pours very dark ruby with a distinct lack of head. The nose is malt vinegar, vinous, wood, dark fruit and spice. The taste is dark fruit, wood, earth, subtle vanilla, vinous, roasted malt, spice, faint vinegar and burnt plastic. Light body and low/no carbonation. Too thin. Not great....
Tried
on 24 Nov 2012
at 06:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle bought at Waitrose, Northwood early last year. A black coloured pour with a small beige head on top. Malty, smokey aroma. Tastes malty, vanilla, some coffee, roasty. Really smooth and easy drinking. Probably the best beer that I’ve had from Bath.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2012
at 04:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Tesco, Inverness
Appearance Very dark brown, ruby edges, frothy head which dissipates to thin layer.
Aroma Dark caramel malts, light coffee and milk chocolate, molasses, hint of toffee.
Taste Malty, some roasted malt, bit of coffee, molassess, toffee, hint of fruit, woody, slight spicy hops.
Palate Soft carb, thin to medium body, smooth. Finish is woody with some butnr crust, lingering light woody bitterness with layer of sweet dark toffee.
Overall Well made porter, quaffable at 5%, good flavour. Must try this cask
Appearance Very dark brown, ruby edges, frothy head which dissipates to thin layer.
Aroma Dark caramel malts, light coffee and milk chocolate, molasses, hint of toffee.
Taste Malty, some roasted malt, bit of coffee, molassess, toffee, hint of fruit, woody, slight spicy hops.
Palate Soft carb, thin to medium body, smooth. Finish is woody with some butnr crust, lingering light woody bitterness with layer of sweet dark toffee.
Overall Well made porter, quaffable at 5%, good flavour. Must try this cask
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2011
at 15:03