Vortex Porter
Riot Brewing Co. in Chemainus, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.42
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Robust Porter
The Vortex Porter: dark roasted malts, balanced sweetness, chocolate and coffee notes. That was a short description. There is nothing short-lived about stopping into a brewery for a beer; it’s a vortex where minutes become hours and empty glasses build up into towers.
The Vortex Porter: dark roasted malts, balanced sweetness, chocolate and coffee notes. That was a short description. There is nothing short-lived about stopping into a brewery for a beer; it’s a vortex where minutes become hours and empty glasses build up into towers.
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6/10
A reddish brown porter with a thin lacing mocha head. In aroma, sweet caramel and chocolate, light coffee, OK. In mouth, a nice sweet chocolate malt with light caramel and coffee, light mineral notes. Ok. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2021
at 23:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
473 ml can. Pours a very dark brown with moderated tan head. Aromas of creamy chocolate and roasted malts. Flavors of sweet chocolate, a little nuts, vanilla and roasted malts
Tried
from Can
on 30 Sep 2021
at 01:06
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Dark muddy copper body with vague beige head, soft light roasted coffee on the nose with faint dark bread hints. Flavour is some sharp coffee but lighter, sort of caramel in a faint way. Too watery on the mouth though. Serviceable but simple.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2019
at 01:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught at Parallel 49, Vancouver
Black colour. Roasty character, hint of star anise, robust but also quite dry.
Good.
Black colour. Roasty character, hint of star anise, robust but also quite dry.
Good.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2018
at 22:22
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draught @ Red Racer, named "Robust Porter" but with the same specs. Dark brown, no head, but has that nice burnished bronze at the edges so really a nice colour. Chocolate nose, on the underhopped side, as per the Riot style. Chocolate, cocoa powder palate...this really falls in the middle. When you look at some of the old school classic porters, this lacks the malt complexity of a Sam Smiths, but also lacks the richness of Smutty Robust. If you're going old school, i want one or the other; falling in between just sort of gives you nothing to latch on to.
Tried
on 31 Mar 2018
at 02:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at St Augustines. Brown, small tan head.Light mocha roast nose.Mocha profile with medium roast bitterness. Great Belgian lacing on glass
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Nov 2017
at 17:45