India Double Porter - Mosaic Simcoe Vic Secret
The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey, Greater London, England 🏴
Porter - Imperial Series|
Score
7.87
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tap @ almost black with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, hops, pine and grapefruit. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, pine, medium sweet, grapefruit, hop and bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap @ Erlings, Aarhus. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, malty, roasted malt and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 270419
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Tap at La Fine Mousse, Paris, 24th April 19. Pours bark and rich, tan viscous head. Aroma is cocoa, aromatic, light grapefruit. Taste is bitter cocoa, citrus, ash, grainy, bitter finish. Fantastic hoppy porter, the Kernel rule this style
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On keg at Six Degrees North Edinburgh. Appearance - opaque black with an attractive fawn head. Nose - dark chocolate, hint of coffee. No ''India'' note yet. Taste - creamy chocolate and coffee. Cocoa more accurately. Palate - creamy and medium to full bodied with a long elegant finish. Overall - very nice but none of the expected India notes in there.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home. Black with dark tan head. Sweet roasted chocolate malts, nutty earthy coffee, touch of honey sweetness, dark fruits, blueberries, citrus peels, cocoa powder, green weedy hops. Big sweet and bitter. Over medium body, fluffy carbonation.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
33cl bottle (bottled 08/11/18 BBF: 08/11/19) from Malting Pot bottle shop in Brussels. F: big, dark tanned, long lasting. C: black, opaque. A: dark malts, chocolate, roasted malts, cocoa, orange, ash, tropical fruits, toffee, nutty, bit umami, complex. T: rich dark roasted malts, bit ash, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, dark dried fruits, bit tropical fruits, nice balanced long lasting bitterness, bit pine resin, very nice balanced beer and especial aroma is great, full body and soft carbonation, very yummy, fully enjoyed.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home picked up from the brewery. An attractive dark black cola brown coloured pour with a lasting dense dark tan head. Aroma holds, big dark malts, ashy roast, cakey malts, piney woody hop, bark. Flavour is composed of big layered dark malts, dark chcolate, molasses, bitter liquorice, burnt cake, bark. Also big piney resinous, woody. Palate is full bodied, creamy, resinous, fine carbonation. Really good. Packs a big punch.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared with the Mrs, Jan and Charlotte at Peders, Copenhagen - dark brown to black pours witn a tan head. Dark and sweet malty with rich notes of chocolate and caramel, some toffee and fudge, medium body, roasted and solid hoppy into the close.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at salthorse. Pours black, nose is liquorice, chocolate, roasted, charcoal, some fruit, taste is sweet, chewy, blackcurrant, some pine, roasted, chocolate.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up at the brewery. Pours motor oil black with a dense, lasting creamy beige head. Wow, this beer is phenomenal. Loads of well roasted malts, rich baking cocoa, mellow ashy bitterness, scorched earth, some freshly brewed black coffee. Some torched pine, moderate sweetness. Medium to full bodied, thick and creamy, with fine, massaging carbonation. Lightly warming finish, more hearty cocoa and coffee, ash, leather, accents of citrus rind and pine. Nice bitter aftertaste. Just incredible stuff. More depth and complexity than anything I've had recently. And the texture and balance are essentially perfect. Nothing else to say here, really. Superb.