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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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Home. Pours black with a nice sized tan head. Aroma of raosted malt, caramel, licorcice, coffee. Flavor follows nose with some hard roasted malts, coffee, licorice, burnt caramel, little chocolate. Medium body, soft carbonation. 210114
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2014
at 12:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Dean’s night before the night tasting, Den Haag. Poured a deep mahogany with a round bubbly light tan head. The aroma roasted malt creamy caramel dark chocolate light coffee. The flavour is medium bitter with a watery fruity liqourice palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. A great beer indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2013
at 12:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
11.04.2015, 0,65l bottle shared with friends:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry roasted, dark malts, roasted grain, caramel, chocolate, puffed rice, hay, nuts, coffee, grass. Taste is slightly dry and burnt, roasted grain, burnt caramel, hay, chocolate, grass, burnt coffee, caramel, weeds. Medium bitterness, slightly harsh mouthfeel. Fair enough.
18.12.2013, 0,65l bottle sampled @ BBGTC Christmas tasting:
6-4-6-3-11=3,0
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly neutral, dark malts, grass, sour coffee, caramel, hints of licorice. Taste is very mild, kind of oxidised, dark malts, sour coffee, caramel, grass, hay. Medium bitterness, thin body. Fair enough.
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry roasted, dark malts, roasted grain, caramel, chocolate, puffed rice, hay, nuts, coffee, grass. Taste is slightly dry and burnt, roasted grain, burnt caramel, hay, chocolate, grass, burnt coffee, caramel, weeds. Medium bitterness, slightly harsh mouthfeel. Fair enough.
18.12.2013, 0,65l bottle sampled @ BBGTC Christmas tasting:
6-4-6-3-11=3,0
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly neutral, dark malts, grass, sour coffee, caramel, hints of licorice. Taste is very mild, kind of oxidised, dark malts, sour coffee, caramel, grass, hay. Medium bitterness, thin body. Fair enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2013
at 15:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a English pint. Pours black with huge light brown head. Aroma is dark chocolate, nice lacing, medium body, silky texture, and medium carbonation. Taste is nice chocolate and some espresso. Great porter.
Tried
on 07 May 2013
at 17:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at RBWG grand tasting
Appearance: Black with a medium sized tan head and spotty lacing
Aroma: Chocolate and roasted malts
Taste: Roasted malts, chocolate, grainy and some smokiness
Decent, slick mouthfeel
Appearance: Black with a medium sized tan head and spotty lacing
Aroma: Chocolate and roasted malts
Taste: Roasted malts, chocolate, grainy and some smokiness
Decent, slick mouthfeel
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2013
at 10:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from somewhere, I forget. First thought - this surely lives up to its name. Silky smooth in the glass and the throat! Mm-mmmm. The balance of roasted notes, mild bitterness and sweet finish is superb. I was put off from trying beers by these guys because of their garish graphics and (sometimes) silly beer names. My mistake.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2013
at 11:29