Old Growler (Cask)
(Batch of Old Growler)
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.98
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Our Multi-award-winning porter, Old Growler gets its distinctive taste through a complex blend of flavours, including hints of chocolate, coffee and roasted malt that excites the palate.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask up the White Lady. Pours clear dark red-brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of coffee, chocolate, light hazelnut. Taste adds light dark fruit. Clean finish.
Tried
on 29 Mar 2026
at 09:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jan 2026
at 13:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught from blind tiger’s porter event. Mine wasn’t casked, I don’t believe, but whatever, I’m rating it here. Poured dark, I got a nutty aroma from it more so than anything else. Very good.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 May 2025
at 00:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pint from the cask at Rodboro Buildings, Guildford. Pours a near black with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of dark fruits, chocolate & roasted malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish. Enjoyable
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jan 2025
at 14:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask. Dark ruby to black pour with smooth beige top. Coffee and chocolate aroma. Taste of coffee and chocolate, moderate roasty quality, milky, a touch sweet but not overly rich, some light berry fruit. Slick medium body. Not overly complex but a very tasty porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Live and Let Live, Cambridge. Dark brown with beige head. Roasted, some coffee, light chocolate, sweet with some bitterness in finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Cask
at
Live and Let Live
on 16 Aug 2023
at 20:04
6/10
Tried
on 14 Apr 2023
at 17:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From rediscovered notes, drank December 2018. Cask at The Bankers Draft, Eltham. Brown pour with a beige head. Rich nose of coffee, dark chocolate, dark fruits. Flavours of chocolate, nuts, coffee, light smoke. Long warming finish. A very old friend.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Oct 2022
at 21:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at The Saltoun Inn. It pours jet black with a thick, creamy light tan head. The aroma is rich roasted, earthy roast, coffee grounds, charred, ash, dark chocolate, dark fruits and nutty praline. The taste is dry, bitter, toothy, charred, rich roasted malt, coffee, toasty, umami, dark chocolate, powdered chocolate, nutty, touch of praline and a smooth malt base with a toasty finish. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Lovely condition. Rounded and flavourful.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Sep 2021
at 11:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Sample at the gate House jdw.
Medium creamy beige head. Chocolate and coffee
Medium creamy beige head. Chocolate and coffee
Tried
from Cask
at
The Gate House (JDW)
on 20 Jun 2021
at 17:50