Hip Hop Porter
Microbrouwerij De Keukenbrouwers in Hove, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter Regular|
Score
5.83
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Onze Porter is naar Engelse stijl met Fuggles hop.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Joes and Dutchdrebus. Hazy sort of light red brownish color (is this a porter??), average sized white to off-whte head. Smell and taste malts, a bit dusty, a bit old, lightly earthy, lightly bitter. Average body and carbonation. Meh at best and no porter at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ benzai. Amber to light brown colour with a small beige head. Smells farty, malts, sweet, some coffee. Tastes malts, slightly weird, herbs. Medium body, soft carbo.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Yet another new Hip Hop beer, opening with violent gushing - sigh... Medium thick, pale eggshell-beige, moussy head with good retention, colour is a misty burgundy-hued bronze - if this is a porter, it is the lightest one I have ever seen... Aroma is anything but inviting: lots of FFF (manure) hit the nostrils, along with hints of dusty earth, cooked turnip, some unripe peach, some band aid-like phenols, moldy walnut, field flowers, stewed pear but without brown sugar, caramel, rotting grains and, to make things worse, unmistakable DMS (cooked cabbage) and even some DMTS (burning rubber). Estery onset, fruity with hints of gooseberry, banana and passion fruit, spritzy carbonation (in fact overcarbonated especially for the style it claims to belong to), sweetish and sourish with a mushroom-like umami touch, ’fluffy’ and bready malt body, bit caramelly with a toasted edge but no roasted bitterness whatsoever, very yeasty from the start and increasing as such towards the finish with a very bready effect, some herbal and spicy hop bitterness in the end trying to save the day but the overt yeastiness dominates eventually, along with esters and some spicy phenols, none of which are well in place. I have many problems with this: first of all, this is not a porter, that much is clear; I know that ’true’ porter went extinct in the first half of the 20th century only to return in an often (too?) stout-like way with the craft beer revolution which has lead to much confusion between porter and stout, but there are ample historical accounts to argue that there is nothing even remotely porter-like in this beer even if you take the original English porters into account. If anything, this is a Belgian dubbel or ’brown’ ale at best. And not a good one at that: this beer simply stinks, there is an infection going on and / or something went wrong with fermentation, I cannot imagine this is supposed to smell of cooked vegetables, farmland, manure and other such unpleasant things. In terms of pure taste, this is not truly undrinkable, there is a fluffy sweetness and big Belgian yeastiness to it which you either like or not, but it has too many flaws to qualify even from a mere technical point of view; that in combination with the mislabeling in terms of style, makes this a failure at two levels in my opinion. It seems that everything that could possibly go wrong here, has gone wrong. I have one piece of advice for these Keukenbrouwers: I remember them telling me about their wild plans of developing a vast range of beers at Modeste last year, well, forget about this and concentrate on fine-tuning your first efforts before venturing into dozens of other styles you apparently do not even understand yet. There is a Flemish saying which goes as follows: do not try to run before you can even walk. Enough said.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
330 ml. bottle shared with tderoeck & kraddel. Purs touch darker hazy amber with an off-white head. Seriously what gives for the style? Nose is sweet weird palnts, yeast, leaves, dishwashing liquid, wet dog. Taste is herbal, massively fizzy, nasty spoiled leaves, rotting plants, fizzy wet leaves, wet dog, herbal. I am far from a person who obsesses about styles but this is really not a porter, not even by the widest definition imaginable, it has zero roasted malts for one thing, I could excuse it if it was any good but it isn’t or at least not for me & it is beyond being not to style. Seriously what happened here? Their other beers weren’t amazing or anything but they were okay or the usual yeasty BE affairs but I have no idea what happened here. Have these guys ever tasted or seen a porter and/or stout?
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Keukenbrouwers Hip Hop Porter (by Microbrouwerij De Keukenbrouwers):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.2/5
14/IV/16 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ home - BB: 19/XII/17 (2016-357) Thanks to kraddel for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy beige to light brown beer. Like, really? You call this a porter? How did that happen... you started brewing, someone went like: "hey, we're all out of chocolate malt", "don't worry, I don't think they'll notice. Besides, most Belgians don't like roasted beers anyway". I wonder. Big fizzy irregular beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very soapy, floral, dirty, dusty, spicy, some banana. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: banana, very spicy, bit sweet, yeast, sourish touch. Aftertaste: more banana, bitter hops, caramel, yeasty, very soapy. This is an insult to the beer style.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Thnx to ships. Not sure what happened here, but this ’porter’ is unclear amber. Nowhere near black... Good white head. Smell is sweet, yeasty, nothing at ALL like a porter . overcarbonated. taste is mildly smoked, in a sweet way. grainy, I am pretty amazed that this is called a porter , is has no signs of being anything near the style. Was this a mislabeled bottle? I wouldn’t know what it would be otherwise...
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle from Bierhandel Willems en Zoon. Thin off white head. Murky deep amber pour. Light chocolate. Ok
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared. Cloudy brown with a small tan head. Aroma of roast, herbs, light licorice, chocolate and malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Light medium bodied with light carbonation.