Old Growler (Cask)
(Batch of Old Growler)
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.97
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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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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is dark brown with thick white head. Aromas and flavours are chocolate, fruits and sweet malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Nov 2012
at 07:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at The Maypole, Cambridge. Golden brown pour with a broken white head. Fruity aroma with a smooth bitter malty taste. Lovely palate. A super ale and probably better cask than bottled.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Nov 2012
at 09:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown colour. Aroma of chocolate, cocoa. Flavour is sweet and a bit sticky. Nice malty flavour. A bit like malt loaf.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2012
at 08:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Jan 2007 from BA: This beer is in Roger Protz’s, 300 Beers to try before you Die, book. Righty so (unlike some others I will not mention). I had this pint in a Wetherspoon’s pub, Birmingham, England (early Saturday night 13 Jan 2007). Dark Mahogany in colour with an off white head, this beer named in honour of the brewers dog, is a serious Porter in looks as well as in its taste. Intense malty, caramel, almost chocolate aroma, which carries on into the taste and mouthfeel. The cask version is 5.0%, the bottles I believe are 5.5%, I will try a bottle if I ever see one and drink the cask where ever I see it!
Tried
from Cask
on 07 May 2012
at 14:38
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Cask in a Witherspoons. Dark brown with a thin head. Aroma of dry hop. Flavour is. watery fruit with a mild bitter hop. Palate is dry.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Mar 2012
at 14:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
RBESG August 2011, Wheatsheaf. Ruby brown with a small but lasting off-white head. Aroma of dark, dried fruits, toffee and biscuit. Sweet and fruity flavour with rich malty character.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2011
at 12:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Wheatsheaf, RBESG 2011. Aroma of chocolate and berries. Dark brown color with purple tints. Flavor is of fruits, chocolate, nice cocoa. Sweet and tasty. Good morning starter!
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2011
at 16:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW. Pours a clear, ruby-brown with a vaguely tan head. Aroma has light to medium roast malts, with notes of blackberry jumping forth. Medium sweet flavor of mild roastiness, nice dark fruits. Medium bodied with fine, tingly carbonation. Decent finish, some sugar, fruits, roasty bitterness on the sides of the tongue. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2011
at 09:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Cask at Castle, Chancery Lane, London, 18 May 2011) Dark brown colour with foamy, beige head. Malty, toasty nose with dark bread, dried fruit, raisins and prunes. Malty, roasted taste with notes of dried fruit, raisins, prunes, dark bread, coffee and a generous coffee bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Nice one.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 May 2011
at 11:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask. Frothy fair mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heay malty and moderate hoppy aroma. More fruitynotes than roast really nice combination. Heavy bitter flavor. Some licorice notes. Long nice finish. Creamy palate. Excellent.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jun 2010
at 02:30