Old Growler (Bottle)
(Batch of Old Growler)
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.75
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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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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle 0,5ltr: Dark brown British Ale with a some chocolate hints and mild bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:51
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
7/10
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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
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2017
at 15:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From old tasting notes. Labeled as "Old Growler Special Porter". Translucent brown color with reddish highlights. Huge rocky tan head. Mild chocolate malt nose. Roasty, bittersweet malt flavor with hins of treacle and floral hops. Wonderfully satisfying.
Tried
from Growler
on 29 May 2017
at 14:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Dark copper. Beige head and lacing. Gentle aroma of fine hops, dark caramel and port. Similar taste. A bit on the sweet side. Decent drinkability. Low carbonation.
Tried
on 18 May 2014
at 14:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500 ml bottle into pint glass, L1125 bottle code. Pours fairly crystal clear dark reddish brown color with a 1-2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of caramel, toast, toffee, raisin, fig, cocoa, brown bread, molasses, light roast, herbal, and toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roasted malt and yeast ester notes; with good strength. Taste of caramel, toast, toffee, brown bread, cocoa, molasses, raisin, fig, light roast, herbal, and toasted earthiness. Lingering notes of caramel, toast, toffee, molasses, brown bread, cocoa, raisin, fig, light roast, herbal, and toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice balance, complexity, and robustness of dark/roasted malt and fruity yeast ester flavors; with zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied; with a moderately creamy and slightly slick/chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with no warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice English porter style. All around good balance, robustness, and complexity of dark/roasted malt and fruity yeast ester flavors; and very smooth to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2014
at 20:44
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a dark ruby black color with a longlsting tan head. Has a weak roasted malty chocolate and dark fruit aroma. Roasted malty malty chocolate and dark fruit flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and dark fruit finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2013
at 07:18
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Nose is slight coffee, lactose, touch of smoke. Taste is raisin, biscuit, , slight coffee, leather and licorice in the finish. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. It’s OK.
Tried
on 07 Oct 2013
at 14:11