Northern Star - Chocolate, Caramel & Biscuit Porter
Northern Monk Brew Co. in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.14
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Put to the people’s choice, we asked you what flavour combination you'd like to see in an updated version of our Classic range porter. With a landslide victory, Britain’s love of biscuits prevailed, and the second iteration of Northern Star is a decadent chocolate, caramel and biscuit porter.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml can. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a lasting frothy off-white head. The aroma is roasty malt, big caramel, light chocolate. The flavour is moderate sweet, with a smooth, rich, slightly oily, sweet chocolate caramel, liqourice bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2021
at 00:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Taster. Pitch black, medium beige head, quite lasting. Very nice nose, dessert quality, chocolate, cocoa, caramel, some vanilla. Medium sweetness, medium bitterness, slight currant. A bit roasted in the finish. Medium lighter body. Nice.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2021
at 19:27
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Dark, dark brown with a tall, frothy head. An artificial berry aroma greets the nose. There’s something genuinely pleasant just underneath—caramel and rich biscuits—but the awful, cloying pop-like “berries” on top make naught of that. Taste is sweet, the lactose noticeable. Finishes the same, perhaps a touch cloying, but manageable. Medium bodied, moderate to mild carbonation. Good chewiness. Flawed. One of these is drinkable. Would not want them on a regular basis.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2021
at 18:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
16/10/2021. Can from Tesco, Martlesham. Pours black with a small frothy beige head. Aroma of chocolate, caramel, vanilla, biscuit. Medium sweetness and light roasted bitterness. Medium body, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2021
at 10:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Almost black, big beige head. Aroma of sweet chocolate and caramel, malts. Taste is sweet, chocolatey, caramel, biscuit - does what it says on the tin, light roasty bitterness. Light-medium bodied. The chocolate, caramel and biscuit flavours are all spot on, and it’s not too sweet either. Decent supermarket fodder.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Oct 2021
at 21:32