Imperial Porter
Ridgeway Brewing in South Stoke, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.61
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Any porter requires complexity of malt and yeast flavours without excessive bitterness. We use a mixture of Maris Otter variety pale ale malt, pilsner malt, crystal malt, amber malt, black malt, roasted barley and malted oats. Porters, even imperial ones, are not a hop driven style of beer so the aim is to produce a simple clean background bitterness using traditional varieties like Challenger, Golding and Progress.…
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
50cl bottle. Bbe 01/2014. Almist black, thin head, that disappeared quickly. Aroma has roasted malt, dark fruitiness, berries and coffee notes. Flavor is roasted malt, sweetness, coffee, licorice. Light roasted, quite sweet and light bodied for this high abv. Drinkable, easy but lacks depth and complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2012
at 10:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
A colabrown beer with a weak and beige head. Aroma is roasted, ryebread, some fermented berries and milky sourness. Quite mild aroma. Taste of roasted malts, balanced sweetness, some berries and bitterness. Medium bodied, low carbonation, easy to drink. Quite OK, but nothing more, too humble.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2012
at 08:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
50 cl bottle @ home, BBE 14.01.2014
Aroma is stale and feels rather English. It has English hops, some hay and some licorice. Flavour has english hops, some hay, somewhat salty licorice, some herbs and distant coffee notes. Dry finish with lingering hoppiness. The licorice and herbal notes are nice, but this is just too English for me. Also, I expect a 8% ABV beer to be less thin.
Aroma is stale and feels rather English. It has English hops, some hay and some licorice. Flavour has english hops, some hay, somewhat salty licorice, some herbs and distant coffee notes. Dry finish with lingering hoppiness. The licorice and herbal notes are nice, but this is just too English for me. Also, I expect a 8% ABV beer to be less thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2012
at 12:11