London Porter
Meantime in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
7.00
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Wonderful with mature cheese, beef, lamb, or as traditionally served, with oysters.
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DavrosIX (1291) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
A surprisingly good porter from a 750ml bottle. It was chilled and drunk after a hard day working in the garden and it was very thirst quenching. A lovely flavour of toasted malt, coffee and possibly some soy sauce. It wasn’t too thick for a porter and it went down a treat. You can see why all those hard-working London market porters loved this type of beer at the end of the day.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, 750 ml from Pivoteka. Courtesy of JFK10000 shared with him and Miro. Pours brown with beige head. Roasted malts, some coffee, smoke, bitter finish. Light sweetness, some bitterness in finish. Light to medium bodied. Oily. Bit bland, thin, expected more.
wheresthepath (3674) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at the Cerise Bar, Reading. Deep ruby with a thin beige head. Smoke, fruit and chocolate in the whiff. On first taste it’s pleasantly smoky and chocolatey; on further tastes this turns to sweet and rather fake chocolate and coffee, rather like a Quality Street coffee cream. There’s a hint of rubber in the background to and it’s rather thin. Like many Meantime brews it’s OK but fails to deliver it’s full potential. Which is a bit of a shame given how expensive it was in this bar- not a place I’d ever normally choose myself, but as it was a friend’s birthday I had little choice in the matter.
Marko (22181) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample from a 750ml bottle, thanks to the Pivoteka guys. Brownish body. Smells like mead really, fermented honey, dark malt, oily. Light soft taste, mead-like again in a way (so, notes of fermented honey), soft malty backbone, dry finish. OK. Not thrilling, not world shattering but a solid beer.
BenL8 (2068) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
Beautiful appearance. Nice thick foam which dissipates rather quickly. Pours a very dark brown which is clear. Aroma is complex, lots of dark malts and quite spicy. Some biscuit and chocolate aromas and a herbal earthy note. Mouthfeel is pleasant and rather thick, medium body and carbonation. Flavour is similar to aroma: complex and malty, with plenty of dark malts. Has a very pleasant hoppy-herbal and earthy note which I really enjoy. Chocolate is pronounced. The bitterness is very nicely balanced with the maltiness, brilliant balance overall. Brilliant beer, one of the best porters I?ve had, pretty much defines the London porter in my opinion.
AndySnow (19631) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
How: Bottle..
Where: Tasting 2015-10-09, bought at the brewery.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a tan head.
Aroma: Liquorice, dried fruit, coffee, roasted malt.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Dried fruit, chocolate, roasted malt.
Martin Lindström (24380) ticked London Porter from Meantime 10 years ago
kapusil (2791) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
0.33l bottle. Dark ruby body, off-white head. Aroma of cocoa, coffee, tobacco, caramel and figs. Taste of sour cherry (I quite like the sourness), chocolate, coffee, smoke and a floral hop bite. Easy to drink. I like it.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed London Porter from Meantime 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
This porter attempts to recreate the authentic, historical version of the style, the grandfather of all stouts and the first industrialized beer style in history. Very curious about this. Pours a very dark burgundy colour, transparent and clear at first but hazy with deposit, ruby hue, under a persistently lacing, stable, pale yellowish beige, dense head. Aroma of caramel candy, raisins, dried pipe tobacco, molasses, dry sherry, leather, unmistakable hint of liquorice, cookie dough, sweet red wine, crème au beurre, sour cream, cellar dust, smoked cheese, horse sweat (’animalistic’ farmyard, I’m strongly beginning to suspect Brettanomyces at work here), perhaps some brown sugar, earth, suggestions of peated whisky, baked banana and bitter chocolate, very faint hint of cough syrup. Pointy taste, more vivid than expected based on the aroma, with an onset of dried plums, walnuts and blackcurrant, soft carbonation, something umami-like, oily and smooth mouthfeel, dark maltiness with nutty, caramelly and bitter chocolatey characteristics as well as clear wheat sourishness, increasing roasted bitterness in the end but staying subdued and not becoming coffee-like as in a stout, sublty smoky accent (smoked meat) in the end, spicy, herbal and leafy hops in the finish, forming another layer of complexity on top of the lingering toastedly bitterish and caramelly sweetish malts; in all, the finish is bitter, with a long, deep, earthy and leafy hop bitterness; retronasally, a very faint medicinal hint of cough candy seems to get through but a clear, though unadvertized, Brettanomyces effect makes the day, as would indeed have been the case in a 19th-century porter, considering the countless historical resources testifying Brettanomyces clausenii being present in the porters of the day. This is unlike any other porter I had before, it almost feels like a historical beer, but obviously I am unable to judge to which extent this approaches the actual historical porter of the 18th and 19th centuries; if this comes anything close, however, I can easily imagine why it was such a huge success. This is a multi-layered, flawless, interesting beer indeed, which has benefited from having been cellared for a few years. Recommended for those after understanding the porter style - which is hard to distinguish from stouts nowadays in many cases. I’d say this is the perfect introduction to this style.