Shadow of a Doubt
Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Smoked Rotating|
Score
7.65
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Named after the great Hitchcock movie filmed in Santa Rosa in 1943. This Imperial Porter packs a rich chocolate and light smoked malt character with a very soft, dry finish.
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8/10
Tried
on 25 Oct 2014
at 06:14
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. 10 % ABV. Clear dark brown with a lasting light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee, chocolate and a little cocoa. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and roasted rather bitter finish. 251014
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2014
at 05:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black brown colour, tan head. Coffee aroma, roasted, dark chocolate. Light sweet flavour, bitter roasted malts, hops, loads of coffee. Finish coffee, roasted malts, lingering bitter. Nice. (from 50cL bottle @ Cantillon Quintessence)
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2014
at 22:40
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
@quintessence 14 Pours almost black Not much foam Smell is roasted malts . taste is very burnt malts . Dark coffee , almost smoke-like taste Nice thickness . Ok .
Tried
on 03 May 2014
at 05:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
@ Cantillon Quintessence. Black colour, beige foam. Roasted complex aroma with notes of carame and dark chocolate. Light sweet with bitter roasted finish.
Tried
from Can
on 02 May 2014
at 04:59
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
500 ml. bottle sampled @ Cantillon Quintessence 2014. Dark mahogany with little mocha head. Nose is very grainy and powder like, lots of cacao and mocha powder with some light soy sauce. Very grainy taste and feel, coffee, cocao, mocha, chocolate, soy sauce, liquorish, grainy roast. Satisfactory porter for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2014
at 23:43
7/10
Tried
on 01 May 2014
at 20:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Huge dark cream head over virtually black beer. Roasted, burnt nose, and quite a hint at (malt)sweetness. Roasted taste, with roasted nuts, liquorice, black chocolate and roasted, if slighlty sweet, meatcrumbs. Very well bodied but not heavy in any way. In the aftertaste there is a strange, rich port-like (not: porter!) flavour. Quite good porter, unusual, but none the less for that.
Tried
on 01 May 2014
at 10:10
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle sample @ Cantillon Quintessence 2014. Brune foncée, col blanc cassé laissant un léger filament doré au verre. Arôme offre un très beau bouquet généreux en terme de malts; alternant grillé, chocolat amer, dark. Pointe fruitée noire en rétro-nasal. Palais est riche et complexe, chocolat légèrement amer, impression de cacao poudreux et en fin de bouche un caractère houblonné amer légèrement herbacé/fruité. Russian River; la brasserie phare de cette Quintessence.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2014
at 08:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Growler from my son’s friend Adam whom I helped introduce to big beers a couple years ago with a FW 10-15 vertical that the 3 of us shared a couple years ago. Nose is coffee, chocolate, combined con char (alliteration for you English profs on the site to enjoy). Cloudy super dark brown with a medium, heavy lacing, cinnamon tan head. Flavor is coffee, chocolate, roast, with light smokiness and bitterness.
Tried
from Growler
on 08 Apr 2014
at 13:10