Entire Butt
Salopian Brewery in Hadnall, Shropshire, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.75
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Historically the term used to describe a porter blended from a variety of ales, entire butt uses 14 different malts and 3 hops to recreate this forgotten style of porter. The beer is black/brown with a crisp white head and is distinctly vinuous. It has little hop character as essentially the flavour is derived from the malts. Malts used: pale Maris Otter, lager, wheat, pale crystal, dark crystal, dark chocolate, pale chocolate, black, roasted barley, caramalt, torrified wheat, amber malt, brown malt and malted oats.
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8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 9.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Pours a very dark reddish-brown with a sizable foamy cream head and good lacing. There’s malts and chocolate in the aroma. In the mouth it is basically sweet, but with a little added bitterness. Main flavours are a deep rich maltiness and some dark fruits and lactose. Plenty of other tastes come through eventually to some degree – coffee, gingerbread, spice and plums. Finish is somewhat sweet and slightly fruity. This is rather nice !
Tried
from Cask
at
Shrewsbury Arms
on 20 Nov 2025
at 14:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown with a creamy tan head and a soft roasted malt and chocolate aroma. Smooth and creamy, notes of treacle on top of roasted malt, a hint of chocolate, some coffee bitterness and a dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
at
Prince of Wales
on 28 Oct 2025
at 20:00
Historic check-in. Versions here were 4.8%
Tried
on 29 Jan 2023
at 12:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared @ Proeflokaal Delft. Roast and ash in the aroma. Thin. Roasty flavor with malted milk. Just a hint of cinnamon. This beer has an amazing drinkability.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 16:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2017
at 16:38
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle into pint glass, bottled on 10/24/2014. Pours crystal clear deep reddish brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and fluffy light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, toffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, brown sugar, molasses, toasted brown bread, light coffee/nuttiness, plum, apple, herbal, wood, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with good strength. Taste of caramel, toffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, brown sugar, molasses, toasted brown bread, light coffee/nuttiness, plum, apple, herbal, wood, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy hop and roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toffee, brown sugar, molasses, milk chocolate, cocoa, toasted brown bread, nuttiness, herbal, wood, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from hop/roast bitterness as well. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, fairly creamy/grainy, and sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero alcohol warming as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a very nice English porter style. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2016
at 19:29
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Clear medium brown with small beige head. Aroma is chocolate and dark malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2016
at 19:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Royal Mile. Dark pour. Nose is chocolate and coffee. Tastes of milk chocolate, some coffee, earth, licorice. Creamy body. Quite tasty and smooth. I liked it
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2016
at 20:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
(bottle 0,5l)
Aroma: Light malty, light roasted, light smoke.
Appearance: Black color. Minimal, light brown head.
Taste: Light sweet, roasted malt.
Palate: Light body. Dry finish.
Overall: Nice malty porter.
Aroma: Light malty, light roasted, light smoke.
Appearance: Black color. Minimal, light brown head.
Taste: Light sweet, roasted malt.
Palate: Light body. Dry finish.
Overall: Nice malty porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2015
at 04:05
6/10
Tried
on 19 Jul 2015
at 15:54