Midnight In Antarctica
Hopcraft Brewing in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales 🏴
Collab with: Steel City BrewingPorter Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.21
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Nags Head, Reading. Pale amber with a loose white head; sweet vanilla roma with perhaps some coffee; smooth, velvety and swwet in the mouth with vanilla and coconut flavours; and a dry lingering coconut finish. An odd beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jul 2015
at 09:32
7/10
Papaya and mangoes on aroma. Citrus, pineapple, papaya and onion on flavour
Tried
at
The Ale House
on 21 Jul 2015
at 19:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask: hand-pulled half-pint at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, Oakengates on 17th July 2015. Clear golden pour with a white topping that gave heavy lacing. Pump Clip says it’s a ’White Porter’ I liked the sound and idea of that and really enjoyed it: my last beer of the evening and a fitting ’night cap’. Vanilla and chocolate fill the nose and mouth flavour wise, a but sweet maybe but I like sweet brews anyway, so it suited me. Smooth body feel and fairly ’slick’ all round. Complex and interesting, another fine beer from Hopcraft.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Jul 2015
at 08:13
8/10
Tried
on 28 May 2015
at 19:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
I have had this in bottle (small sample) poured by Gazza at The Shoulder of Mutton a few weeks back and more recently at Craft Clerkenwell on Cask Handpump Saturday 23rd May 2015 with Ang, Nick and others. Pours golden in colour a little thin white head and a very slight haze. Wow this is such a strange beer if you close your eyes you would imagine that are drinking a darker smooth beer with lovely coffee and white chocolate notes on the aroma and in the mouth. Some smooth light creamy vanilla, but with all that is going on I think I failed to pick up the coconut. I passed this around the table at Craft and this was very well received, it’s a weird but intriguing beer. Love it. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2015
at 23:50