Silk Porter
Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
7.36
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Dark, robust and silky-smooth, with many flavors of roasted, toasted and caramel malts. Porter is an old-world beer style, so popular that it helped start the industrial revolution. Taste the history.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at CBC 2014. Deep black in the glass, small head. Heavy malty, light salty aroma. Starts heavy malty, quite dry. Bitter background. Finish less intense malty, well balanced. Quite drinkable. Good!
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Sep 2014
at 06:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 ounce bottle into signature pint glass, no bottle dating. Pours nearly pitch black color with a 2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with some moderate streaming carbonation. Aromas of dark chocolate, cocoa, roasted malt, coffee, toast, dark bread, light smoke, light nuttiness, herbal, and roasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of dark chocolate, cocoa, roasted malt, coffee, toast, dark bread, nuttiness, light smoke, herbal, and roasted earthiness. Fair amount of roast/herbal hop bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, roasted malt, toast, dark bread, nuttiness, light smoke, herbal, and roasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity and robustness of dark/roast/bready malt and light hop notes; with a nice roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and no cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, moderately creamy, and lightly chalky/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good robust porter. All around nice balance, complexity, and robustness of dark/roast/bready malt and light hop flavors; and very smooth to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2014
at 18:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Botella de 65 cl en el lúpulo en octubre de 2012, un par de veces. Porter suave, refinada y con sabores y aromas ligeros tostados maltosos con algo de café y cacao. Cuerpo medio con 6.2 vol fácil de beber. Buena, para repetir.
Tried
on 23 May 2014
at 12:30