Hawkshead Brewery Brodie's Prime Export

Brodie's Prime Export

 

Hawkshead Brewery in Staveley, Cumbria, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Porter - Imperial Regular
Score
7.08
ABV: 8.5% IBU: - Ticks: 36
Our original ruby brown premium beer, Brodie’s Prime, brewed to export strength and bottle conditioned to create a rich, complex, strong dark ale.

English Maris Otter malted barley, dark malts and a medley of English and American hops produce aromas of dark chocolate, treacle sweet flavours, roasted bitterness, a surprising fruitiness and a long dry finish.
 

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7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330ml bottle from Hawkshead Beer Hall - Deep black body with a browny hue, tan head. Nose is treacle, coffee, liquorice, and burnt toast. Taste is a little harsh, sharp and butter with the burnt features in the background. I was hoping for a little better, but there was something a little too raw about this one.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2015 at 14:35


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Whats Brewing 2014. Black colour with a tan head. aroma is roasted malt, pine, wood, grapefruit, chocolate. Flavour is roasted malt, pine, wood, grapefruit, chocolate, vinous. Nice beer.

Tried on 02 May 2015 at 02:26



6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at the Tap House, Lancaster. Dark brown with a tempting light brown head. Heavy lacing for a keg beer. Liquorice and coffee on the nose. Hints of vinegar and forest fruits. The taste is an improvement, bittersweet with a gentle bitterness buoying the flavour to the back of the throat. Bitter finish. Palette is thin for a strong beer, but the gum-numbing carbonation makes up for that. A decent beer, but is it wrong for me to expect more from a beer of this strength?

Tried from Draft on 10 Mar 2015 at 13:22


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at the Tap House, Lancaster, 01/03/15. Black with a decent tan covering. Nose is spice, chocolate fudge, tar, dark fruit notes, light hop notes in the background. Taste comprises dark chocolate, spice, bitter fruit peel, hint woody, roast malt. Medium + body, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid enough impy, no game changer but good balance and fairly easy drinker.

Tried from Draft on 03 Mar 2015 at 15:42


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap, at What’s Brewing. Some curtains occur as the dense, finger-thick light tan to beige head slides down the sides of the glass. Brown, unclear body. The aroma is roasted and chocolatey, with a barreled sourness, some dark dried fruits and citrus peel. Vinous notes. It’s full-bodied, warming and dry on the palate, pleasantly carbonated. Vinous flavor with roasted malts, chocolate, dried fruits and a touch of citrus peel. Quite nice this one, but there’s too many things going on at the same time. Sure lacking balance. 141031

Tried from Draft on 08 Jan 2015 at 16:49


7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Sample on tap at What’s Brewing Beer Festival, Stavanger. Black colour, tan head. Roasty aroma, notes of chocolate, coffee and prunes, a hint of fresh plums too. Roasty flavour, coffee, dark bitter chocolate, bittering hops. Bitter aftertaste.

Tried from Draft on 02 Nov 2014 at 12:15


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at CBC Clerkenwell - London. Pours black-brown with a frothy, khaki head. The nose has bit of iodine, burnt wood, dark cocoa. Medium sweet flavor with torched barrel, dried dark fruits, scorched earth, baking cocoa. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with more dark, bittersweet chocolate, burnt earth and wood bitterness, a bit of chewy leather, dried fruits, ash. Pretty decent stuff.

Tried from Cask on 30 Mar 2014 at 11:23


5.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask @ Angel, Manchester. Black with a thick frothy head. Strong tasting with a wild bushy floral aroma and taste.

Tried from Cask on 26 Mar 2014 at 03:46


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask handpull at The Craft Clerkenwell. Black beer lasting tan head. Hoppy dark chocolate impy stout. I mean it’s way too hoppy and out of balance. Condition is a little watery. It’s ok hides the abv quite well but lacks balance and poise. Chocolate is ok. Bit of burn on the finish. Bit agricultural. As subtle as a Joel Garner bouncer but without the style.

Tried from Cask on 20 Mar 2014 at 07:38