Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is sweet chocolate, toffee, taste is quite dry, chocolate, roasted, sweet.

Casi negra. Dos dedos de espuma beige. Aroma algo agrio. Compleja en boca, muy ahumada. Muy muy seca. Diferente. No me acaba de convencer. Quizás un nuevo intento...

On tap at The Porterhouse, pours jet black with a small brown head. Nose brings out roasted malt and cocoa. Flavour is rich, with lightly roasted malt and dry cocoa. Quite a lovely palate, full of dry cocoa. Silky, thick palate. Very nice stuff.

Authentic Irish dry stout outside the Guinness - Murphy’s - Beamish triangle, apparently appreciated by the holy Michael Jackson in the late nineties and a recreation of an early 20th-century example, very curious about this. The cap has a ring to it, for easy removal. Pours a completely opaque black colour under a thick, moussy, thickly lacing, medium beige head. Aroma shouts tons of cookie dough at first, accompanied by hints of cappuccino, caramel candy, gingerbread, liquorice candy, pronounced iron, mocha, candied figs, cloves, chicory. Concentrated dried fruits flavour at first, with a fatty, oily, smooth mouthfeel, faintly sweet but nothing really reminiscent of candi or other sugar, dry with a soft, sweetish nutty and chocolatey maltiness, clear but not really disturbing iron, light spiciness, finishing in a full-fledged coffeeish and chicory-like roasted bitterness lasting for a long time and aided by peppery and earthy hop bitterness. Appetizing, dry and with indeed an authentic feel to it (inasmuch as this is assessible - given the fact no one alive today was around when Michael Collins drank the original version); very good in its particular style, feeling more ’natural’ than Guinness Draught, for example. Kudos to Porterhouse, apparently the first Irish brewpub.

Keg at Porterhouse, Covent Garden, London. A black coloured pour with a thin beige head on top. Roasty, malty, chocolate aroma. Tastes similar, roasty, malty, chocolate, dry and quite bitter.

330 ml bottle @ Melkebaren. Black body with a rather small, but stable beige head. Strong, good aroma of roasted malt, expresso coffee, mocha and some dry fruit. Nice, strong flavor as well, mostly the same ingredients as found in the aroma, medium sweet, nicely roasted dark malt, dark chocolate, coffee, medium bitterness with a hint of salt liquorice. Nice balanced and impressive complexity for such low ABV. Fine body and long, good aftertaste. Impressive all the way.

0,33L bottle, BB 29.07.15. Pours dark brown-black with light brown head. The head stays. Aroma is sweet, roast, chocolate. Flavor is roast, coffee, licorice, some sour notes. Finish is very long roasted dry and coffee bitter with some smokiness and nutiness. Overall: well made brew, but I prefer my stouts sweeter.

Draught, opaque dark brown to black colour, medium long lasting, creamy head, aroma of coffee and strong roasted malt with some dirt and a hint of seaweed, flavour of coffee nuts and peanuts with some smokiness in the back and something sea salty like. Very good traditional stout.

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