Plum Porter
St. Peter's Brewery in Bungay, Suffolk, England 🏴
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.18
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A dark, sweet, full-bodied plum porter. Background notes of damson and blackcurrant are followed by the fruitiness of the plum in flavour and aroma.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from local Morrisons. Lots of boozy, rotting fruit in the nose of this one. It pours a dark reddish brown with a strong but temporary reddish-beige head. Dark fruit (wells plums I suppose) in the mouth, along with chocolate, blackcurrants and hints of coffee grounds. Finish is mainly about the fruit as well, but there is eventually some bitterness in the aftertaste. Not as intense as the Titanic version, and all the better for it. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2020
at 18:45
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Morrisons. Deep red pour, small beige head, fine retention. Aroma is big on plum jam, almost too intense in that its difficult to pick out anything else, although I can just get coffee as well. Taste is again big on fruity plum jam and also blackcurrent both of which are sweet and mildly tart. When this fades you have an interesting combination of the fruit, coffee, chocolate. The finish starts with berries and a nice bitterness but then it keeps building until the bitterness hits the gut. Moderate body, carbonation is fine. The balance is not quite right here but it is flavoursome and improved on this breweries' pale ales from Morrisons which are a bit bland.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2020
at 23:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
20/2/2020. Cask at the Chelmsford Winter Beer & Cider Festival 2020. Pours very dark brown with a bubbly/frothy off-white to beige head. Aroma of plummy dark fruits, sweet malts, caramel and chocolate. Medium plus sweetness and light to moderate bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, average carbonation. Nice plummy chocolate finish. Bit soapy initially but got better.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Feb 2020
at 13:08
5/10
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2020
at 13:06
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from who knows where. Reddish brown pour with a beige head. Plum,red fruit nose. Taste is jammy red fruit,rose petals, cherry drops. Feels too artificial. Titanic do this so much better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2020
at 08:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask: Poured a black brown with a cream light brown head. Aroma is plum fruity. Taste is fruity plum, mild malts and a dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Dec 2019
at 14:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Aroma and flavour have intense fruity sweetness coming from the fruits. Also a light roast from the malts. Complimented by touches of jammy cake. It remains just light enough to enjoy as a pint.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2019
at 22:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Morrison’s. Dark, cola brown. Super messy, lasting, semi lacing, beige head. Nose has plum jam. Damson. Some fudge chocolate. Dried vine fruit. Taste is light sweet, with a plum stone, and vinous bitterness. Light to medium body. Soft carbonation. Plum and chocolate bitter finish. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2019
at 19:26
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Regal Moon, Rochdale. Extremely dark with a thick creamy off-white head. It has a good but not overstated plum taste, and quite a lot of aroma. Very mildly spiced, it has an easy texture.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Oct 2019
at 15:52
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle) Black with big loose off-white head. Aroma of plums with hint of chocolate. Medium body with plenty of soft carbonation. Unusual taste. The start has plenty of plum flavour along with some other fruity notes and some candy sweetness. There’s some notes of chocolate in the mid palate. Then some burnt toffee and hoppy bitterness develop for quite a long finish. Unusual, interesting, a little odd perhaps.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2019
at 20:32