Export India Porter
The Kernel Brewery in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
7.52
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ABV may vary slightly.
The Export India Porter relates to porter in similar manner to the way the IPA relates to the Pale Ale: they added more hops. We’ve taken Barclay Perkins recipe from 1855, but changed the hops to Columbus and Cascade (American varieties) and hopped it in the same way that we hop our IPAs. The result is a dark brown beer that smells of cocoa, roses, and some orange. The body is quite light, and it is carbonated more highly than usual for a porter to make it more refreshing. It’s quite light in texture and tastes of Turkish delight dusted with cocoa powder – chocolate, rose water and fruit. Dry finish.
The Export India Porter relates to porter in similar manner to the way the IPA relates to the Pale Ale: they added more hops. We’ve taken Barclay Perkins recipe from 1855, but changed the hops to Columbus and Cascade (American varieties) and hopped it in the same way that we hop our IPAs. The result is a dark brown beer that smells of cocoa, roses, and some orange. The body is quite light, and it is carbonated more highly than usual for a porter to make it more refreshing. It’s quite light in texture and tastes of Turkish delight dusted with cocoa powder – chocolate, rose water and fruit. Dry finish.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle at home. Pours an inky black, very stout like actually, medium to large tan almost brown head. Nose is chocolate, peanut, cocoa powder. Flavour is dark chocolate, peanut butter, molasses, small bit of hop resin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2020
at 16:23
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Omnipollos Hatt. Almost black with a small tan head. Aroma and taste of dark malt, chocolate, licorice and some coffee. Medium body and bitterness. A decent one.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jul 2020
at 15:50
7/10
Tried
on 04 Jul 2020
at 22:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottled 19.05.20 @ 5.9% Tight tan head stayed on a near black still body. Roast, nutty & iron aroma. Medium bodied, light over the tongue with a clean back. Roasted, nutty, cereal, malt & pithy tastes. Tastes so good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2020
at 20:55
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Feb 2020
at 14:30
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2020
at 22:02
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
No sweetness left, dry as fuck, but clean and crisp and well made with a great roast profile. Tilt birmingham
Tried
on 05 Feb 2020
at 22:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours black with creamy light brown foam, very fine. Aroma is herbal and licorice. Body is average, like carbonation. Taste is medium bitter. Final is fairly bitter.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jan 2020
at 17:52
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at Tap 40, Crewe (as 6.3%). Bit of a complex case this one. It calls itself an India Porter, but I would say it’s really a Black IPA. It pours jet black with a strong but transient beige head. The nose has coffee to the fore, but plenty of citrus in the background. The initial taste is sharpness, bitter like lettuce base. But there is also coffee and chocolate with burnt toast hints. The finish is bitter black coffee, and alcoholic warmth in the stomach. Excellent !
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jan 2020
at 23:09
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This pours a perfect black with a beige mousse that would make French pattisières fill with envy. There's a strong but subdued coffee, intelligently refined, not overly cloying nor syrupy, just an honest delivery that seems so basic in its elements but somehow seems to elude many breweries on this side of the world. The flavour is smooth barley, honest hops not trying to fry your tastebuds. A great mouthfeel with solid oiliness. Wonderful in all respects, nothing amazingly unique but every element is balanced and delivered in the right amount at the right time.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2019
at 05:02