Midnight Sun (Bottle)
(Batch of Midnight Sun)
Williams Brothers (Heather Ales) in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
7.02
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6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Old rating from Nov 2014 - 500ml bottle, pours jet black with a beige head. Aromas & tastes of chocolate, ginger, plum, berries, herbs & roasted malt. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2025
at 15:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Rate 3.9, best before 10/24, drinking it at Haute-Nendaz, on sunday, just before my exam. Interesting and nice porter brewed on the English way, roasty, coffee, some perfumed and light spicy note, a bit fruity, aromatic, regular bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Amstein
on 01 Apr 2025
at 15:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours black with nice creamy beige head. Aroma of dry dark malts, liquorice, caramel, sweet scented herbs. Taste is very much roasted dry malts, coffee, caramel, some sweetness in the middle with a tangy berry, and a hoppy herbal moderate bitter, roasty and ginger finish. Near medium bodied, slick but dry, fine carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 0,5ltr: Almost black brew with red glow and a beige foamy head. I like the forfather of the stout, taste of coffee, chocolate, ginger and well balanced sweetgbitternesh. This one i like really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:40
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Roasted malt, dark chocolate and ginger. Can't get past the ginger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2023
at 02:44
7/10
Thanks Simon. Malty dry beginning. Nice caramel, roast, dry bitterness. Caramel, roast with a caramelly bitter dry back. Dry, roasted grain. Bitter dry in the end with dry dark chocolate with hints of Espresso. Nice.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2022
at 21:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Almost black with a creamy, beige head that lingers. Aroma of fudge and something herbal, vaguely ginger possibly although I’d never pick it out as such without knowing beforehand. Taste is bittersweet, a nice mix of toffee sweetness and hoppy bitterness and a touch of ginger bite. Body is medium, carbonation mild, texture trends watery, which is the only real flaw here, but I generally prefer beers of this style with slightly more heft. Good.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2020
at 16:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Nose is roast, coffee, ash, smoke. Taste is smokey, ash leading to a burst of ginger, coffee pot coffee, fruity notes in the light sour finish which retains the heat from the ginger. It's solid and the ginger is well balanced to my taste
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2020
at 19:48
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
Aus der Flasche 2015-05 getrunken. Dieses klassiche Porter birkt keine echte Überraschungen und der Körper ist recht leicht. Es ist ein gute Begleiter zum Essen.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2019
at 16:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2017
at 15:23