Old Dark
Speight's Brewery in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Porter Regular|
Score
6.14
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5 malt old dark was introduced into the Speight’s range in 1992 to meet consumer demands for the classic ‘dark’ beer. No prizes for guessing why it got its name. By carefully selecting, roasting and matching 5 separate malts we have crafted a dark beer that gives rich, creamy, chocolate fudge flavours swiftly followed by coffee overtones. Perfect for warming the cockles on a stormy night.
Best drunk with some fine New Zealand cheeses or chocolate desserts.
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hawthorne00 (9694) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Dark brown with a pale beige head. Very little aroma - a bit of Milo and slight roast, I suppose. Sweet with brown sugar, bread, a little roast, plums, a little lick of spicy bitterness. It's very sweet but not quite as bland as it first appears. Let down by lack of aroma. A throwback.
berkshirejohn (10200) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle at a hotel in Te Anau. An opaque chestnut pour with a beige head and good lacing; toasty aroma; rather thin in the mouth, with a caramel taste and over roasted grains adding a sharp bitterness; then a thin sweet finish. An insipid attempt at a porter.
Grumbo (24130) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle in Auckland. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
explosivedog (14053) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at OGH. Aroma is a little sharp, some dried fruit. Taste is the same raisin notes with some coffee bitterness and a small herbal (rosemary?) twist. Perfectly drinkable, but nothing special.
TedE (2763) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pint on tap. Faint peppery nose. Dark red/black beer with solid foamy white head. Flat mouthfeel. Taste is smoky malts with a dry fruity chocolate metallic finish. Easy to drink but like Tui Dark claims 5 malts but has no depth of flavour. Drinkable but boring.
Grzesiek79 (7595) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Nowozelandzki porter stworzony z 5 słodów. Zapach mało intensywny. Ale za to w smaku wyczuwa się wszystko co jest pożądane. Polecam
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
9th September 2006
Warning! Early amateur rating! Bottle in Raratonga. No bitterness in this beer just a lot of dark malts. Okay.
oh6gdx (50921) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught. Very deep amber colour, small white head. ARoma is caramel malts, some bready notes, as well as saltwater. Flavour is raisins, sweet malts. Not very exciting, though it was the best of the ones at The Southerner in London for the moment of the Speights ones.
KimLundJohansen (10465) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear brown with large beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and mild nutty notes. Sweet flavor with roasted malt, chocolate and caramel. Ends sweet.
RuneBlix (26068) reviewed Old Dark from Speight's Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Half pint from tap served xtra cold at The Southerner , Temple, London. Dark brown red-tinged body with lacing on the glass. Light roasted malty to the nose. Notes of dark chocolate malts in flavour supported by a touch of sweet caramel. Too diluted palate for a porter. It’s a pity that the ice cold serving temperature took some of the flavour from all of the Speights beers at the bar (01.05.2008).