Stranger Than Fiction
Collective Arts Brewing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter Regular|
Score
7.18
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Stranger Than Fiction is a full-bodied porter with plenty of roast flavour with hints of molasses. Ridiculous amounts of chocolate and pale ale malts make this porter a smooth and creamy brew.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
A deep dark porter with a thick frothy creamy mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark coffee, light mineral notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice chocolate malt with light coffee notes, light cereals, pleasant. On tap at Wellington Gastropub.
Tried
at
Wellington Gastropub
on 29 Mar 2026
at 00:22
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Best before 03/24, can coming from Amstein. Drinking it tonight, in the Mercure, Paris, after a complicated day of work, thanks the tree falling over the tracks in Seysell. Good porter, a classic, on the way of a fuller porter, full body, roasty, bitter, 18.10.24
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2026
at 14:19
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Draft at Collective Arts Toronto. Opaque dark brown pour. Creamy tan cap. Roasted malt aroma hints at chocolate. Flavor is more of the same. Dark malts, chocolate and a bit of coffee. Rich and flavorful. Bitter hops on backend lend. Bitter, sticky finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Collective Arts Brewing - Toronto
on 07 Jul 2025
at 20:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
canned. pours deep dark brown beige head. smoky with chewy malts. pretty nice
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:45
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from the brewery. Black pour, slight tinges of brown light come through, small beige head. Aroma is quite toasty, slightly sweet, nice coffee, and bitter cocoa notes, with subtle pine resin hoppy notes. Mouth feel is silky and the carb is light. Finish is medium bitter with a subtle cocoa sweetness, and hints of piney hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
(Can) Dark brown colour, almost black, with creamy beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of dark bread, prunes, tobacco, dark chocolate and coffee. Malty, roasted taste with coffee, cacao, dark bread, prunes, tobacco, orange peel and a mild roasty bitterness in the finish. More than medium body, with a slight sweetness. Rich, solid and well made porter. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2025
at 21:41
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jan 2025
at 22:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours almost black, with a dimishing, tan head. Black metal logo lacing. Roasted aroma, sweetish, with light notes of vanilla, coffee. Flavour is the same, a wee bit tart. Light metallic overtone. Bitter coffee finish. Roasted. Lingering light grassy note. A wee bit too much carbonation. Overall pretty good, well-balanced. The aroma works a bit better than the flavour. 26.12.20. 330ml draft into a bottle from lowcostbeer. Black pour with a reasonable looking thickness, small tanned head, nice retention. Aroma of roasted malts, sweetness, chocolate, treacle, coffee. Taste is multi-layered with above mentioned notes, its sweet but with a roast-bitter finish to offset. Medium bodied but rather than smooth and soft carbonation instead we have a slick palate and a zingy to frothy carbonation but it really gets the flavours around the palate. Interesting, this is really good.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
bortimot svart med beige skum. Lukter røstet malt, sjokolade og kaffe. Myk i munnfølelse. Smaker sjokolade. Innslag av noe røkt og kaffe.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2023
at 04:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
#canada thanks Robin S. LCI
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jun 2023
at 16:39