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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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473ml can. Jet black colour with average to huge, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, beige to tan head. Roasty, chocolately, dark malty and slightly grassy, hoppy aroma, notes of dark chocolate, some coffee, burnt coffee, toffee, whiffs of cocoa, charcoal, almost an ashy smoky touch. Taste is roasty, chocolately, dark malty, notes of dark chocolate, some coffee, burnt coffee, subtle sweetness with hints of toffee, a touch of charcoal. Creamy texture, smooth and super-soft palate, fine and soft carbonation. Quite rich and intense, nevertheless highly drinkable - very good.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jul 2020
at 19:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught @ #MBCF20, [ Manchester Beer & Cider Festival 2020 ], Manchester Central Convention Complex, Windmill St, Petersfield, M2 3GX Manchester, Great Manchester, England.
[ As Collective Arts Stranger Than Fiction ].
ABV: 5.0%. Clear dark red brown colour with a average, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, dark malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, dark malt, roasted, roasted - coffee - chocolate, sweet malt, hoppy, medium dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20200122]
7-4-8-3-15
Tried
on 21 Mar 2020
at 12:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Olmost black with off white head - Roasted malt aroma with hints of chocolate - Roasted malt body with some chocolate and bitterness - The roasted malt goes into the finish with some chocolate flavour as well - This was good
Tried
on 29 Feb 2020
at 17:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Pours near black with a yellow brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has dark grains, light roast and rich chocolate with a hint of grass underlying. Flavor combines bread and chocolate with some slightly earthy dark grains backing.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2020
at 20:38
7/10
Taki chlalny, acz na slodko porterek z mocna kawa dosc sympatyczna, ciemnoowocowa. Do jet black heart brakuje, ale wcale nie tak duzo ;)
Tried
from Draft
at
Craft Beer Muranów
on 16 Feb 2020
at 16:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, kindly shared by friends at the ratebeer table on the first day of the Manchester Beer & Cider Festival. Black in the festival glass, stable beige head, dotted spots on the glass. Promising smell of mid-sweet chocolate malts. Fine blended taste profile of dried fruits, liquorice, and chocolate, molasses backbone. Smoothly roasted tail. Likable. (Preview session for CAMRA & SPBW members, 22.01.2020).
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2020
at 15:12