Dark Matter
VOG Brewery (Vale Of Glamorgan Brewery) in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.99
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Our champion blackcurrant porter! Easy going, rich and smooth with liquorice and chocolate notes from the complex dark roasted malt recipe, balanced perfectly by the late addition of Bramling Cross hops.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Playhouse, Colchester. Almost black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and coffee. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter finish. 170217
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2017
at 10:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ The Playhouse, Colchester. Pours dark with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, licorice, coffee, dark chocolate. Flavor is light sweet, malt, coffee, chocolate, licorice. Medium body, soft carbonation, sweet finish. 170217
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2017
at 10:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ The Playhouse, Colchester. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark brown. Aroma and taste are roast malt, caramel, fruits, licorice and hops. Nice and smooth.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2017
at 10:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Pennsylvanian (Spoons), Rickmansworth, Herts. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, blackcurrant aroma. Tastes roasty, malty, blackcurrant and some chocolate. Quite an enjoyable porter and this was in a Wetherspoons!
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2017
at 09:29
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the counting house Glasgow... Dark black... Small tan head soft dry dusty chocolate roast malts nose.. Soft toffee chocolate.. Light fruits chocolate roast malts
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jan 2017
at 11:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Montgomery’s Tower, Shrewsbury. Pours dark with creamy off-white head. Aroma bears roasty notes with no discernible blackcurrant. Taste is smooth, roasty with very mild, fleeting blackcurrant. Smooth, lightly bitter. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jan 2017
at 14:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours almost black with a dark red hue and a small tan head. Aroma is chocolate, black currant and roasted malt. Light roasted malt and berry flavours with some dry bitterness in the finish.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2017
at 05:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Fighting Cock, Bradford. Black with an off-white creamy head. Easy-drinkign with a smooth, very light roasted malt taste, and a slightly sweetened nose in this respect.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2017
at 11:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the bow bar. Pours black, nose is blackcurrant, liquorice, toffee, chocolate, taste is sour, tart blackcurrant, light roasted malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Dec 2016
at 01:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
9th July 2017: had two pints while in Portabello, Scotland. It was so much better I had to re-score the beer. My first rating I stand by, but something has changed since then. Hand-pulled half-pint in The Pheasant, Wellington Shropshire. Pump clip called it a Blackcurrant Porter, and that is what I got. Semi-sour Blackcurrant aromas and flavours in a dark, almost black bodied brew. I quite liked it, but a half-pint was enough to be honest.
Tried
on 26 Jul 2016
at 17:42