Hot Rocks Lager
Port Brewing Company in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Bend Brewing CompanyLager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.99
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It's not too often the brewing process requires us to make beer in a mind over matter sort of way. Hot Rocks Lager presented us an opportunity to work with Tony Cornet of Bend Brewing Co. on a collaborative project. Working with our brewers to bring her recipe to fruition, she decided to "rock it" old school.
A robust, dark lager brewed with glowing-hot granite creating a “Super-Boil” that caramelizes the wort, resulting in giving Hot Rocks its caramel and toffee notes. Hot Rocks is one of Port Brewing’s early spring releases.
A robust, dark lager brewed with glowing-hot granite creating a “Super-Boil” that caramelizes the wort, resulting in giving Hot Rocks its caramel and toffee notes. Hot Rocks is one of Port Brewing’s early spring releases.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
75cl Bottle @ home shared with DutchDrebus. I like the color: medium to dark brown with a nice dark red glow coming through. Smell and taste though: nothing! Just nothing present, this beer is -how do I translate this in English- ’star of anonimity’ sort of speak. It’s not wrong, not very good. Or maybe I had a bad day. Anyway, decent beer, but not much I can tell you about it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2011
at 07:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
scura schiuma media media persistenza naso lievemente tostato frutta matura caramello quasi affumicato in bocca ritornao le stesse sensazione note tostata non accentuate poco gasata
Tried
on 31 Jul 2011
at 15:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Harvard’s in Augusta. Pours darkish brown color with tan head. Aromas of toffee and toasted malts. Sweet toasted malt flavor with some caramel and a hint of chocolate. Meduim body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2011
at 13:17
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Ølbutikken. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich roast malt, caramel notes, nuts and hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2011
at 15:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a very nice brownish colour, with some redness shining through.. Not enough redness to really like it though. The beer tastes nice but it’s not really special. Pretty balanced.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2011
at 10:50
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bomber from BevMo Salinas shared by Enniskillen. caramel, a hint of citrus and milk chocolate. Hazy light brown with a small beige head. Flavor is moderately sweet, caramel, and hints of background bitterness.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2011
at 14:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Some caramel notes. Moderate bitter nice caramellic flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2011
at 01:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Yellow-beige, medium head, dissipating over deep-brown beer. Caramelly, soft-roasted nose, rather sweet; light plywood aroma, more bitterish than the first impression. Mild-sweet flavour, milkchocolate and liquorice, centwafers. Finish has some black cardamome, but mildly so. Feels quite carbonated, rather light body, slight slicknes. Aftertaste is not unlike cola - or I ought to specify Pepsi, as warming up, it acquires a peppery flavour I associate with that drink from my very early days. Strange, can’t get the height of this one - not even if I like it or not really.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2011
at 05:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark brown with medium creamy tan head. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, bitter and sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2011
at 06:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Small beige head. Deep dark red body. Sugary earthy caramelly aroma with wild berry notes. Dry-sweet-acidic mealy caramelly wild berry taste with earthy chocolatey notes. Mild mouthfeel. MId-bodied. Dryish burnt mineraly sooty aftertaste with earthy grainy caramel and straw notes. Long lingering burnt earthy straw aftertaste. Lovely, and really unusual. (0.65l bottle, Håndverkerstuene, Oslo.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2011
at 07:14