Cocoa Salty Porter
La Brasserie du Mont Salève in Neydens, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 🇫🇷
Porter Regular|
Score
7.05
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A dark brown porter with a thick collapsing brown head. In aroma, nice chocolate malt with light coffee notes, vanilla extract, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice chocolate malt with light coffee notes, grassy hops, light mineral notes, light herbaceous character, pleasant. On tap at vices et versa.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jul 2017
at 18:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 8
Salted porter from what is probably France’s most internationally oriented brewery of the moment, tasted from tap at Moeder Lambic Original. Very thick and frothy, regularly shaped, pale yellowish beige, very dense head, blackish robe but still largely translucent under bright light, with burgundy hue. Aroma of coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, leather, dried seaweed, black olive, dry tea leaves, fig, hard butterscotch candy, some vanilla and milk sugar. Restrained dry fruitiness, only subduedly sweetish with hints of dried fig and raisin, vague baked banana aspect, followed by a thick but ’dry’ umami edge, somewhat reminiscent of dried seaweed (I guess this represents the salty factor) or dried mushrooms, caramelly and deeply nutty, toasted malt bittersweetness in the middle, ending in lots of burnt toast, all the while effectuating a sharpish carbonation which impairs the mouthfeel a bit and does not seem entirely fit for the style. Ends dry and bitter, but softly so, remaining creamy and rounded, wiht peppery hops and lingering coffeeish roasted bitterness. Decent but a bit ’generic’, I expected the saltiness to come through more clearly as well, but in relation to the rest of French brewing, this is more daring and outspoken than usual.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Dec 2016
at 14:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours pitch black with a small brown and creamy head. Aroma is roasted malty, chocolate and breadish. Caramelish and roasted. Smooth malty, breadish. Slight mineral note. Roasted malty and chocolate finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Dec 2016
at 15:49
7/10
Tried
on 27 Nov 2016
at 14:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 33cl. Merci Pierre T. Brune foncée, col léger crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme au bouquet malté caramel, pâle, pointe de cacao judicieusement placée avec un rétro salin apportant une touche plaisant de minéral. Palais reste centré sur le malté et cela même à 4.5% on retrouve un malté vraiment bien dosé qui apporte une belle complexité à ce stout. Le tout verse plus vers le caramel, grillé et ponctuée par l’ajout de poudre de cacao. Le sel ajoute un côté maritime salin très plaisant qui se mélangé bien aux malts.
Tried
on 25 Dec 2015
at 09:35
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ “Vini Birre Ribelli 2015”. Black with a substantial mocha head. Nose is interesting, condensed milk, caramel, cacao, faint mineral note. Taste is caramel, condensed milk, sugar, candy, chocolate, faint mineral / salty note in the back. Touch thin but overall I think oddly this one really worked. Nice work.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2015
at 05:17
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Weicher, herb malziger Antrunk. Passend trocken, etwas bitter, rund. Mild, insgesamt süffig aber wenig spannend. 9/9/10/9/9/9
Tried
on 07 Nov 2015
at 15:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sehr dunkel braune Farbe, geringe bräunliche schaumkrone. Geruch schokoladig, röstmalzig, Kakao. Geschmack mild röstmalzig, Karamell, Vanille, Schokolade.
Tried
on 07 Nov 2015
at 15:01