Oyster Stout
Porterhouse Brew Co. in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Oyster Regular|
Score
6.81
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This stout is simply not suitable for vegetarians. It contains oysters. Now, you won’t find one at the bottom of the glass, but you may get a touch of sweet minerality in the flavour that comes from the freshly shucked lads that get put in during brewing. Not a bad way to go, even for a bivalve.Delicate and toasty, it also has slightly bitter, fragrant twist, thanks to East Kent Goldings.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at Porterhouse Covent Garden. It pours very dark brown with a thick, dense beige head. The nose is caramel, salt, bonfire and bacon. The taste is salt, charcoal, smoke, wood, liquorice and caramel, with a dry finish. It is much lighter than the Wrasslers Stout they do. It is a fairly simple stout that is perhaps a bit too thin for my liking.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2011
at 05:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
My first oyster stout, and it’s not nearly as scary as I thought. There is a small but noticeable briny flavor on the finish, one that makes good food for thought. Are the oysters added while still in-shell, or are they used in their naked, boogery form? And why in the hell was this beer ever made in the first place? I’m not saying its bad, but, you gotta admit, tossing in oysters during the brewing is taking the use of adjuncts a little far. But, hell, I’m glad they did, because this stout is growing tastier as it warms. The feel is a bit thin and slack; more heft would slow the passage of the multitude of flavors, but the bitterness of the roasted malt couples nicely with the flavors emitted from bivalve mollusks. Worth a try.
Tried
on 05 May 2011
at 18:54
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Deep garnet body, thin off-white head. Woody, roasty, dry nose, also quite salty. Interesting, strange woody, salty body, with oyster shells and licorice, quite bitter and dry. Thin palate. Odd.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2011
at 16:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 330ml @ home
Pours dark brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt. chocolate and coffee. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long chocolate finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours dark brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt. chocolate and coffee. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long chocolate finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2011
at 13:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pitch black coloured body with a light thin off-white head. Aroma of pungent roasted malt, coffee, seawater and a touch of chocolate. Medium to Full-bodied; Deep malty flavour at first with a lot of caramel and chocolate sweetness, some light anise notes in spices and a good almost briny salty flavour from the oysters - very nice indeed, but the sheer body the oysters add is reason enough to sample this, especially with the limited options for beer here in Ireland. I sampled this pint on draught at the Porterhouse brewpub in Central Dublin (Temple Bar), Republic of Ireland on 20-February-2009.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2011
at 18:19
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A clear dark brown stout with a thick moka head. In aroma, smooth powdery chocolate, milkey and smooth. In mouth, a nice stout with smooth bitter chocolate, woody notes, medium bodied. Tasted March 12 2011 with Montreal crew.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2011
at 18:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a transparent reddish brown with a smallish tan head. Some lacing persists. Aroma is mostly roasted malt with some acidic fruitiness, a cold coffee note and a bit of chocolate-y, caramel-y malt. The caramel presence grows as the beer warms. No real oyster flavor, except perhaps a hint of brine, which may well be the result of perception bias. The beer is a bit underwhelming in the taste department. It starts off with some fairly weak caramel sweetness, transitioning to a bitter coffee/roast flavor. The aftertaste is actually rather nice, as some good coffee/dark chocolate flavor lingers. Carbonation is fairly low. Pretty good body for a ~5% abv Irish stout.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2011
at 22:01