Can 44 cl. Pours a cloudy, opaque black with a creamy, smooth and lacing beige head. Roasty nose with some English licorice. Solid body, roasted and now PLENTY of English licorice - very subtle sweetness. Roasty finish with little bitterness. Dammed straight and dammed good Porter. 270526

Keg @ the brewery. 1/3 pint.
Poured near black in color with a thin off white head.
Roasted malts, touch of coffee. Balanced porter with lingering chocolate finish.

Near black with a tall tan head. Roasted, cocoa powder, snappy citrus for a moment, nutty, earth. Medium bodied. Solid porter.

Tap.Dark brown colour with small beige head.Aroma of roasted malt and nuts mild roasted and toasted taste even brown bread not mild and easy to drink kind of beer.

440 ml can. Label name is The Porter 2024. Pours a very dark brown with full tannish head. Aromas of nutty chocolate and roasted barley. Flavors follow same with additional lactose/sugar/cream.

Rocky light brown head on a dark brown body. Roasted, chocolate & nutty aroma. Medium to full bodied, smooth with a dry foamy back. Roasted, burnt, chocolate, caramel & nutty tastes with a bitter pine finish. Class.

The ordinary (robust) porter by this familiar English brewery, with explicit references to the heydays of the style (the Victorian era). Can shared by Craftmember. Thick and moussy, even-shaped, shred-lacing, yellowish beige head, jet black robe with burgundy edges (under bright light). Aroma of coffee grounds, burnt toast, dried blackcurrants, charcoal, roasted chicory, cigars, hot olive oil, freshly crushed black pepper, haemoglobin, old cracked leather. Clean onset, hardly sweet but still a touch of dried fig, burnt blackcurrants as well, very vague umami accent (black olive), medium carbonation with smooth, oily mouthfeel. Burnt-toasty and roasted-walnutty malt core, lots of roasted bitterness here, dry, very coffee-like in the end, though there is a sweeter caramelly core at the centre too; the roasted bitterness eventually dominates, supported by spicy, leafy hop bitterness which, like the roastedness, seems overdeveloped for a classic English style robust porter. In fact, if I had to taste this blind, I would say it is a dry stout rather than a porter – but we all know that stout and porter are a continuum without strict boundaries. Its strong hop bitterness also reminds me of classic, eighties style American porter – Sierra Nevada Porter to be precise… Anyway, regardless of historical or stylistic accuracy, I have to admit that I liked this one quite a lot for its old school dryness and bitterness – in fact I think it ranks among the better Anspach & Hobday beers for me, as most of those (at least the ones I had) always tended to lack ‘something’ to truly shine. This one does shine, albeit in a pitch black way.