Old Growler
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.86
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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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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Deep dark brown coloured body, about 75% opaque with a very nice ruby tint when held up to a light, with a centimetre tall tan creamy head. Aroma of pale malt, roast, coffee, nuts, cream and a hint of caramel and raisins. Medium-bodied; Assertive roasty malt flavour at first with a very nice caramel and toffee flavour followed by some lighter fruits and prune flavours. Aftertaste shows very well with some good malt complexity and a sweet, yet slightly bitter nuttiness. Overall, a nice porter with some good malt notes, none cloying and a bit of complexity on the finish. Not my favourite, but not a bad beer at all. I sampled this pint bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Miami Beach, Florida on 18-September-2012 for US$4.99 sampled at home in Washington on 12-November-2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2012
at 22:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at The Maypole, Cambridge. Golden brown pour with a broken white head. Fruity aroma with a smooth bitter malty taste. Lovely palate. A super ale and probably better cask than bottled.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Nov 2012
at 09:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Tesco. Reddish mahogany pour, thin tan head. Malty liquorice aroma. Smooth roasted malt taste, with a nice rounded bitter flavour. Very pleasant soft bitter palate. Serve warm to maximise the flavour. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2012
at 11:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown colour. Aroma of chocolate, cocoa. Flavour is sweet and a bit sticky. Nice malty flavour. A bit like malt loaf.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2012
at 08:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Dark caramel colour with a thin off white head. Aroma is nutty, roasty with a little caramel. Falvour is smooth balncedlittle caramel and faint roastiness. A little belgian esters type character. Very drinkable.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2012
at 14:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[500ml bottle, gift from Maureen & Dave - cheers!] Pours dark brown with a large beige head. Lightly roasted malt, chocolate & wholemeal bread throughout. Maybe a slight hint of liquorice, but not enough to put me off. A slight dryness and slight bitterness in the finish. It’s an OK, easy-to-drink beer, but definitely a bit too easy at times - both the flavour and body are a little on the thin side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2012
at 15:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle - a classic well rounded ale, nice and full bodied, with a good meaty taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2012
at 22:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Aug 2008 from BA: Finally got round to buying and reviewing a bottle of this beer. Brown 500ml bottle, 5 months beyond its Best by Date. Poured into my new La Chouffe tulip glass twice. Wonderful colour, Mahogany red with a tan head that sat for ages on top. A chocolate aroma with toffee esters hit your nose, lovely. Rich plum bread type taste (without butter on it). Almost creamy in the mouthfeel, very rich and heavy in its body. If I know of a better Porter I can’t think of one right now, this is good. Glad I got to have this in a bottle, just as good as the cask version.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2012
at 14:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Jan 2007 from BA: This beer is in Roger Protz’s, 300 Beers to try before you Die, book. Righty so (unlike some others I will not mention). I had this pint in a Wetherspoon’s pub, Birmingham, England (early Saturday night 13 Jan 2007). Dark Mahogany in colour with an off white head, this beer named in honour of the brewers dog, is a serious Porter in looks as well as in its taste. Intense malty, caramel, almost chocolate aroma, which carries on into the taste and mouthfeel. The cask version is 5.0%, the bottles I believe are 5.5%, I will try a bottle if I ever see one and drink the cask where ever I see it!
Tried
from Cask
on 07 May 2012
at 14:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
50cl bottle from AbcBeers. Decent white head. Clear dark amber pour. Nice beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2012
at 15:54