Shallow Grave Porter
Heretic Brewing Company in Fairfield, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
7.17
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Shallow Grave Porter is dark as night, perfect for a cool evening out in the woods. This a big, dark ale with a complex and rich chocolate and caramel malt character followed by a touch of warmth and light malt sweetness, leaving you ready for more after each shovelful. You will love this so much you won’t have time to dig a six-footer, so make it a Shallow Grave.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. More or less black colour with a beigeish brown head, which leaves some lace. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, roasted tones, some caramel, ripe fruits and woody notes. Flavour is sweet malts, mild toasted notes, toffee, some coffee as well as mild wood, ripe fruits and actually quite a bitter bite in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2022
at 01:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pint can. Dark brown pour topped with a finger of tan head. Roasty aroma with a light amount of baker's cocoa. Tastes rich with roast, a little earthy and very faintly sweet. Reminds me of a London porter.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Sep 2022
at 03:34
8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Black with a beige head. Roasted malts, molasses, caramel, some earthy notes. Medium bodied with good carbonation. Finish is long and bittersweet with roasted notes. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Nov 2021
at 11:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
16oz can pours a nearly opaque black, brown edges, ring of off white head. Nose is solid, toasted grains, some rootbeer, molasses, brewers licorice, caramel. Flavor starts sweet with caramel and Charleston Chew, there is a roasty coffee note helping with a little rounding bitterness, burnt toast with nutella. Little bite from the roast and from the alcohol on the end.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2020
at 00:59
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Roast and some caramel. Black pour with good head and lacing. Coffee, some dark chocolate. Bitter end. Nice stuff. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2020
at 01:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a nice black coffee from a can, fair amount of light cream colored head. Roasty aroma and flavor, chocolate and caramel. Good beer.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2019
at 04:21
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
24/8/2019. Bottle from Boxbeers and shared at the Ipswich & North Essex beer share. Pours very dark brown with a creamy beige head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, dark fruits, liquorice and veg. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness. Medium body, slight creamy texture, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2019
at 09:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
650ml bottle [slow gusher]. Jet black colour with excessively huge, frothy to macropore, very slowly osteoporosing, fairly lacing, off-white to beige head. Chocolately, spicy and roasty dark malty aroma, notes of liquorice, dark chocolate, some coffee, cocoa, caramel malty basic layer with a touch of burnt caramel. Taste is chocolately, roasty, slightly spicy dark malty, notes of dark chocolate, liquorice, hints of coffee, caramel malty basic layer with subtle sweetness and a touch of burnt caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2019
at 21:09
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is coffee roast malts dark fruit chocolate and some ash. Taste is more of the nice dark roast coffee chocolate a little earthy hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2018
at 22:10
8/10
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Tried
on 04 Sep 2018
at 14:27