Funnel Blower
Box Steam Brewery in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England 🏴
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Skilfully built from citrus Target, spicy Challenger and earthy Fuggle hops, our porter is a voyage of vanilla sweetness and bitter chocolate.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Pours a deep brown colour with red highlights. Its head is big, fluffy, creamy, off-white, long-lasting and creates thick lacing all-around. Cocoa powder and light vanilla beans aromas with the roasted malts. Forgot this was a porter (as it looked liked a creamy stout) but the mouthfeel was watery... so easy drinking for a dark brew. Flavours of caramel, vanilla, chocolate but all pretty mild with not much lingering and stickiness. Decent vanilla and chocolate porter for those who like it to go down easy.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2011
at 14:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Ealing beer festival 2011. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a small beige head on top. Aroma of vanilla and coffee. Tastes of Vanilla, coffee, chocolate, malty, roasty, sweet. This was quite smooth and easy to drink, I really enjoyed this one.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jul 2011
at 02:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Half pint, cask. Drinking with Craig at Cloisters Bar in Edinburgh. Black with a dark-brown tint. Bubbly ring to the rim of the glass. Aroma of roasted malts with a touch of anise. Burnt earthy malts joined by vanilla sweetness in flavour. Rounded ending by bittering malts. Likable, 29.11.2010.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Dec 2010
at 12:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask. Quite near black (deep ruby murky brown colour), small beige head. Aroma is wood, roast, vanilla and some ashes. Flavour is roast, ashes, vanilla, some wood as well as some dark dry fruits. Very nice for being only 4.5 % abv.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 May 2010
at 08:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle picked up at Bellingers, Grove, Nr Wantage, Oxon, 01-05-10 consumed 02-05-10 Pours very dark brown with a light beige head. Pleasant aroma with vanilla, coffee, drinking chocolate powder and a little caramel. Tastes is lightly roasty but with lashings of chocolate, vanilla again, some bitterness, really nice porter, more milk chocolate again yum. A6 A4 F8 P4 Ov14 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2010
at 09:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask conditioned at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Dark tawny brown in colour with a thin beige head; distinct vanilla aroma - almost ice-cream like in intensity; sweet vanilla flavour at first with chewy malts; the finish is dry and warming with lots of depth from deeply roasted malts. A very pleasing porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jan 2010
at 06:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the Wenlock Arms on 6th December 2009. Black with very little head. Vanilla and spice notes ; slight roasted barley kick and a smooth mouthfeel. Very agreeable in comparison to the sour porters one often sees and the vanilla note is a smooth, pleasant aroma rather than an aggressive one. A nectareous pint.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Dec 2009
at 17:38
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the JDW in Staple Hill, Bristol 12/09/09. Near black with a decent, creamy off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts, dark fruit and vanilla. Flavour of dark chocolate, fruits and a heavy dose of vanilla before a dry finish. The vanilla didn’t combine with the rest of the drink, indeed it remained separate like an ice cream float.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Sep 2009
at 13:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Cask at Kuikka, Helsinki, on 2009-09-05) Deep dark brown and clear. Small white head that lasts long. Coffee, chocolate and vanilla in aroma. Medium bodied palate with low carbonation. Chocolate, coffee, roastednes, vanilla, bitterness and sweetness in taste. Chocolate, roastedness and bitterness in aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Sep 2009
at 02:30