Old Growler
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.85
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Our Multi-award-winning porter, Old Growler gets its distinctive taste through a complex blend of flavours, including hints of chocolate, coffee and roasted malt that excites the palate.
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04/08/1989. WHITE HORSE, 33 Castle Street, HERTFORD, Hertfordshire, England (FREE HOUSE)
Tried
on 11 Jan 2023
at 06:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From rediscovered notes, drank December 2018. Cask at The Bankers Draft, Eltham. Brown pour with a beige head. Rich nose of coffee, dark chocolate, dark fruits. Flavours of chocolate, nuts, coffee, light smoke. Long warming finish. A very old friend.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Oct 2022
at 21:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at The Saltoun Inn. It pours jet black with a thick, creamy light tan head. The aroma is rich roasted, earthy roast, coffee grounds, charred, ash, dark chocolate, dark fruits and nutty praline. The taste is dry, bitter, toothy, charred, rich roasted malt, coffee, toasty, umami, dark chocolate, powdered chocolate, nutty, touch of praline and a smooth malt base with a toasty finish. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Lovely condition. Rounded and flavourful.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Sep 2021
at 11:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Sample at the gate House jdw.
Medium creamy beige head. Chocolate and coffee
Medium creamy beige head. Chocolate and coffee
Tried
from Cask
at
The Gate House (JDW)
on 20 Jun 2021
at 17:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Adding in my 300 Beers To Try ticks because I want to see how they impact my stats and some of them I will never see again. Will however re-rate them when practical. Another Cambridge purchase - the city was quite good when I was looking out for 300 ticks.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2020
at 10:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Lych Gate, Wolverhampton Got a weak spot for this beer, as it is the one which made me realise how good a porter can be – all those many years ago. Pours completely black with a small cream head and good lacing. Has a nice complex aroma of treacle and dark fruits. In the mouth it has a sweet creamy texture with tastes of toffee and roasted malts. Finish is bitter with some fruitiness. Nice, but not as good as I remember it being.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Feb 2020
at 22:32
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Nice clean cask flat dark ale but a great round body and clean everything. Wellington birmingham
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Feb 2020
at 19:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours dark brown, almost perfectly black, topped with medium beige head. Gentle biscuity nose with some chocolate. Gently sweet upfront, quite chocolatey with medium bitterness. Medium full body. Silky. Decent porter. Quite drinkable.
Tried
on 20 Aug 2018
at 15:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle [acquired in a trade with Grumbo - thanks a lot!]. Clear, mahogany colour with ruby glimmer and small to average, thick, creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Dark malty and fruity hoppy aroma, notes of cherry and plum, some chocolate, a roasty touch. Taste is roasty dark malty and bitter, slightly fruity hoppy, some roast bitterness as well as hop bitterness, hints of burnt coffee, burnt caramel, widely disguised hints of plum and cherry; minimally watery passages.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2018
at 22:55