Finns Hall Porter
Beowulf Brewing in Brownhills, Staffordshire, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.84
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Is a multi-award winning, champion beer and a fitting tribute to Finn a character famed for his hospitality and brought to life in the story of Beowulf. Our porter is as it should be:~ inviting, dark and smoky, hoppy and not too sweet. The kind of ale that invites one to linger.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Deep dark brown with a ruby tinge, a frothy tan head and a chocolate and coffee malt aroma. Fresh and bright with coffee notes, roasted malt and a dry bitter finish.
Shrewsbury CAMRA Beer Festival 2025
Shrewsbury CAMRA Beer Festival 2025
Tried
from Cask
at
Shrewsbury CAMRA Beer Festival
on 26 Sep 2025
at 09:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours very dark reddy brown with a small head. Aroma is dry roast with a little coffee. Taste has dry and fruity roast with a little liquroice on the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Mar 2025
at 18:18
01/01/2008. ROYAL OAK, Lower Bristol Road, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (FOUR COUNTY INNS)
Tried
on 10 Nov 2022
at 05:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a decent off white head on top. Roasty, malty, liquorice, dark chocolate/fruit. A pleasant tasting porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 May 2022
at 15:09
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at Bird in Hand, Stafford – though I have drunk it before some time ago. Pours a very dark reddish – brown with a small beige head. The aroma is a heady concoction of smoke, liquorice and chocolate. In the mouth it has a sweet and creamy texture, with piles of liquorice in the flavour. There’s roasted malts and hitns of ash and herbs too. Finish is smoky and slightly bitter. This is awesome !
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Mar 2022
at 23:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Half-pint, cask at Blue Boar in Leicester. A Finn beer shared with Finn! Black in the glass, low fawn coloured head, clingy lacing. Black malty nose, dry. Taste of oak, liquorice and a backdrop of smoked malts. Quite alright, easy to drink. (10.02.2019).
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Feb 2019
at 13:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Delt med Rune i hyggelig selskap av jjsint. Svart. 0 skum. God sjokoladearoma. Smaken lakris. Tørr avslutning.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2019
at 15:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Handpull cask from the Blue Boar, Leicester. Purplish black and opaque with a khaki head. Liquorice dominates the aroma, although there's a touch of burnt oak and heavy malt. The taste is more balanced than I'd feared, with some medicinal acidity in the finish. Herbal bitterness in the aftertaste with a suggestion of molasses. Complex and moreish. Too much liquorice for me but otherwise it's a fine, fine porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Apr 2018
at 17:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Wellington; dark brown pour with a thin tan head, aroma has a hint of liquorice, dark fruits, taste has liquorice, some chocolate, fruit.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Dec 2016
at 06:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Lukt: Malt, svak sjokolade og frukter.
Utseende: Sort.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum.
Smak: Frukter, røsta malt og vanilje.
Hvor: 27 th Ealing Beer Festival.
Medium: Tapp@150ml, ABV@4,7%, Når@06.07.2016
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jul 2016
at 01:23