SP19 Sour Porter
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter Regular|
Score
7.15
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Bierridder (4318) reviewed SP19 Sour Porter from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
24/03/2019 - @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderouck. Hazy dark brown, small fading head. Nose is dark malts, sour fruits, red wine touch. Taste is dark malts, bit chocolate, sour fruit, dry red wine. Nice.Made me think of Alvinne's Sigma.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed SP19 Sour Porter from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
7 March 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Shared with the lovely Anke! Pours hazy dark brown with a very thin, frothy, tan head. Aroma of oatmeal cookies, walnut, (salted) pistachio, wet earth, fondant, toast, basket of red fruits, jam. Taste is light malty sweet, notes of cookie, nuts & toast quickly overruled by a medium fruity sourness in the form of blackcurrant & brambleberries, lactic & almost lemony but not quite there; bitter tones of earth & fondant, even faint grapefruit, and a chocolatey powdery effect offer balance. Dryish, tart, bit earthy hoppy finish, lingering red fruits, jam, chocolate, nuts, almost equally sweet & sour. Medium body, slick-oily texture, soft carbonation. Thoroughly enjoyed it, nice to see that Brouwbar keeps on experimenting like this.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed SP19 Sour Porter from Brouwbar 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar SP19 Sour Porter (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
8/III/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-347)
Clear brown beer, practically no head, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty roasted, little funky, acidic impression, chocolate, coffee. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty sour, fruity, sour cherries, somewhat bitter, dry, roasted. Aftertaste: more acidic, fruity, dry, bit lemony, soft roast. Nice one!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed SP19 Sour Porter from Brouwbar 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Brown porter made sour with lactic acid, one of Brouwbar's newest to date and quite an unusual one especially in a Belgian context. Bottle at Brouwbar. Slow gusher, but nothing dramatic. Mousy, pale beige, bubbly, opening head over a hazy deep bronze-ish brown beer with ruddy hue. Aroma of dried blueberries, toffee, stewed plum, fresh fig, raspberry yoghurt, cooked apple, raisin, Syrah wine, brown bread, cookies, caramel candy and a light hint of orange zest - interesting and inviting, in all, but not truly porter-like, more an oud bruin of sorts, as is to be expected when a dark beer turns out sour. Sweet fig and red apple in the onset, with indeed a lactic acidic edge, if relatively mildly so, reminiscent of redcurrant and sour blackberries; softly prickling carb, smooth-edged mouthfeel. Caramelly malt body, only gently dried by sourness, with a powdery earthy note in the end and a lightly spicy hop bitter presence as well as a soft toasty bitterishness. The sourness remains, but it is no match for the inherently sweet, caramelly and red fruit-like basic flavour profile. Oud bruin-like, as said, but in a somewhat more 'superficial' way, as if the sourness is added on top of a sweet brown beer rather than deeply penetrating it; from what Benjamin told me, he had a lot of doubts whether to sell this to his public or not, but I am glad he did, this is an interesting and refreshing creation.