Porter
The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey, Greater London, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
7.22
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jimgreen (21510) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Stirchley Wines and Spirits, Birmingham. Pours a lovely dark mahogany with a thin tan head. The aroma is hoppy where the dry pepperness is very prominent. The flavour is spicy and bitter with malt and liqourice. A super beer and a very unusual porter.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
50cl bottle courtesy of JMGReenUK, shared. Thin creamy white head. Clear black pour. Hoppy after-taste, different for a porter. A lovely brew.
_angst_ (8410) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
500 ml bottle bought @ beermerchants.com. Pours dark reddish brown with a frothy pale reddish mocha head that slowly dissipates while leaving lots of sticky lacing on the glass. Smell is malty and hoppy with roasted malts, lemony soap, grapefruit juice, lime juice, resinous wood, pine, dark roast coffee, lemon grass, hay, cookie dough and hints of green and red peppers. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and hoppy with roasted malts, burnt toast, grapefruit juice, orange peal, lime juice, resinous wood, oily pine, salty liquorice candy, bitter cocoa powder, hay, roasted oatmeal flakes, dark bread and moist soil. Mouthfeel is soft, round, tiny watery and light bodied. Finish is bitter with roasted malts, lime juice, grapefruit rinds, resinous wood, burnt cereal, dark roast coffee and liquorice root. A very hoppy porter. Nice but not spectacular.
stravale (3279) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Nina’s Mini Mart, Edinburgh 5.5%
Pitch black, hardly any light through, fairly big frothy tan head that dissipates with some lacing
Aroma - rich roasted malts, soft burnt wood, quite meaty complex malts, yeasty, some bovril, touch of very dark ground coffee, almost an aroma of some weaker impys
Taste - as the aroma - rich dark malts, some more burnt wood and less of the meatiness, yeast is noticeable, strong rich flavour for abv, Quite bitter roast, background of bitter hops, no fruitness or choclate here for me. Intense flavour but doesn’t get over burnt which is good
Palate - soft carb, medium body. Palate is dry, fairly bitter and rich dark robust roast. Finish - as main flavour again, particularly dry, flavour gently fades.
Overall - The intensity of taste is much higher than to be expected at 5.5%. As the roast malts are very rich, the drinkability is lower than to be expected at this abv - it’s a more of a sipper. It’s good, really well made, but I’m wanting more sweet dark malts to counterbalance the rich soft burnt roast.
McCash (16021) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
50cl bottle @ Brewdog Bar. Pours opaque black though the head falls away quite quickly. The nose is of coffee, dark chocolate, then strangely some grapes coming through. The taste has apples, chocolate and grapes. The palate is confusing. While it has a big structure, it lacks the creamy texture being more tangy and then this tangy-ness continues through to the finish. The overall impression is of some confusion, it seems more like a light barley wine or a Belgian Brune.
cuso (17193) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Kris Wines, London. Dark brown color with nice thick beige head. Aroma, coffee, chocolate, raisins, nice bitter finish. Nice porter.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Two 500ml bottles brought back home from Sourced Market in London and shared with friends. Fading, tan coloured head atop of a devil-black body with a brownish tint. Chocolate malts in aroma supported by a hoppy backbone. Delicious and well blended taste profile of chocolate malts and dark, bitter hops providing a lingering finish. Medium bodied and quite easy to drink (social gathering at Hillesøy, 26.03.2011).
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.
Finn (18112) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Flaske 0,5l delt med CatweasleTroms, Marcusb, MrSoul, Rune, m.fl. under hyggelig sammenkomst i Hytte 51 (Vestkanten) på Sommarøy Arctic Hotel 26 mar 11. Kullsort på farge. Mokkafarget skum som varer lenge. Fin kaffe/sjokoladearoma. Ikke påtrengende men god. Det samme kan sies om smaken. Kaffen litt mer framtredernde. Lett-drikkelig.
TBone (30139) reviewed Porter from The Kernel Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled@The Kernel (BB 02/2012, ABV 6%)
Dark almost opaque borwn color, good creamy brown head. Toasted malty, a bit chocolaty aroma. Medium to full-bodied. Toasted malty, a bit oven(?) roasty, coffee, solid maltyness. Stylish porter with enough ABV to backup. My first ever The Kernel beer, nice to have at the brewery premises.