Historic Porter
Hopshackle in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, England 🏴
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Score
6.84
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A traditional English Porter based on an historical recipe from the 1850’s. It is made using only English hops, malts and yeast to preserve it’s truly English identity. A decent dollop of black treacle is also added as a reminder to the original recipe. Almost black with dark ruby highlights, this beer has aromas of malt and fruit with flavours of roasted grain, rich malt and a dry lingering finish.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 500ml.[ Trade by Fin ]. Clear medium to dark red brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, dark chocolate, smoke - peat. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090821]
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2009
at 00:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. A reddish dark brown porter topped by a tan head. Chocolate and lots of coffee on the nose, with burnt malts and hints of dried fruits. The flavor goes in the same direction, but a bit weaker. Still with burnt malts and coffee, some dried fruits and a nice hoppy bitterness, but the chocolate is gone. Dry, medium to full body and a roasted finish. A pleasant porter, probably lacking on sourness to be truly historic. Not that it matters. 090821
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2009
at 00:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Clear orangey brown with a beige head. Hard roasted malt and fruit in the nose. Medium body, dried fruit, hard roasted malt and ashes. Some malt bitterness in the finish. 210809
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2009
at 05:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 4.8%. Roasted papery aroma. Very dark brown colour, some red notes. Good chewy rye flavour, quite roasted with a little good citric note. Slightly sweet with a little creamy note. Well-balanced and good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2009
at 15:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Brown with a medium beige head. Aroma had roasted malt, caramel and coffee notes. Flavour had burned malt, chocolate, coffee and hoppy notes. Finished dry and bitter.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2009
at 16:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A red-brown beer with a brown head. The aroma has strong notes of nuts, caramel, and dusty hops, as well as a bit of butterscotch. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, butterscotch, wood, and nuts, leading to a bitter nutty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2009
at 13:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
50 cL bottle. Pours cloudy dark amber to brown with a small tan head. Creamy texture. Roasted malt aroma, light liqourice and vague breadish note. Bitter, roasted and spiced hoppy flavoured with a lingering dark roasted malt flavoured into the far finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2009
at 13:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
[i] [b] Cask at The Hop Pole pubs Easter Beer Festival, Aylesbury in the company of Loz, Chris O, Ruth, Barry, Lynn 21-03-08 [/i] [/b] This actually wasn’t technically on at the beer festival , it was on at the front bar. Dark brown in colour, a jolly nice porter with good dark fruits offer up plenty of tanginess and making just a bit more fruity than many others in this catergory, reasonable body and quite flavoursome even smoothning out towards the end. My first from this brewery and on this showing unlikely to be my last.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Mar 2008
at 02:59