Santa's Little Helper
(has 3 batches)
Port Brewing Company in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Winter Out of Production|
Score
7.73
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Santa knows who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. This is one seriously naughty but nice beer.
Santa’s Little Helper, our Imperial Stout, starts with an emphasis on dark cocoa and roasted coffee aromatics. The finish lends hints of sweet crystal malt, warming tones of alcohol and a touch of hops, making a perfect accompaniment to leftover fruit cake and sugar cookies.
Hops
MAGNUM AND CENTENNIAL
Original Gravity
1.092
ABV
10%
Santa’s Little Helper, our Imperial Stout, starts with an emphasis on dark cocoa and roasted coffee aromatics. The finish lends hints of sweet crystal malt, warming tones of alcohol and a touch of hops, making a perfect accompaniment to leftover fruit cake and sugar cookies.
Hops
MAGNUM AND CENTENNIAL
Original Gravity
1.092
ABV
10%
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle 650ml @ home
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, licorice, coffee and tobacco. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, licorice, coffee and tobacco. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2011
at 14:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Originally rated on 5.2.2010. Roasty imperial stout with a nice aroma and slight sweet notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2011
at 23:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
08 bottle from a trade pours black with a medium tan head, great lacing. Aroma is big cocoa, roast, dark red fruits. Flavor is rich as hell, roast, sweet cocoa, tar, really big dry finish. Top notch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2011
at 17:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Almost black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and dark chocolate. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted bitter finish with warming alcohol. 290611
Tried
on 30 Jun 2011
at 12:19
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from De Molen. Pours black with Creamy beige head. Aroma is roasted coffee, malt, chocolate and dark fruits. Flavour has same aspects With a medium sweetness and a touch of wood. Medium to dull bodied beer with a very light carbonation. Really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2011
at 16:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
21st June 2009
2006 bottle. Opaque black stout. Soft palate. Rich creamy dark malt, just a little roastiness. Some lactose sweetness and a little well balanced hop counterbalance. Dry finish, more lactose sweetness and a trace of coffee in the aftertaste. Decent.
30th January 2011
Lots of mellow bourbon, little alcohol heat in thee finish. Good dark malts and dark chocolate. Surprisingly simple beer.
2006 bottle. Opaque black stout. Soft palate. Rich creamy dark malt, just a little roastiness. Some lactose sweetness and a little well balanced hop counterbalance. Dry finish, more lactose sweetness and a trace of coffee in the aftertaste. Decent.
30th January 2011
Lots of mellow bourbon, little alcohol heat in thee finish. Good dark malts and dark chocolate. Surprisingly simple beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2011
at 02:16
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
65cl Bottle at Beer Temple. Black colour, beige head. Aroma of lots of chocolate, moccha, coffee, liquorice, hard roasted malts. Flavour is sweet, malty, chocolate, moccha, coffee, roasted bitter finish with more chocolate. Medium to fullbodied, slick. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2011
at 07:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Slow poor from a 22 oz. bottle into a snifter produced large foamy, thick, beige head that shrank real quick. Decent retention. Nose of nothing but roasted malt. Taste is roasted malt with a hint of chocolate in the finish. For a Imperial Stout, this isn’t bad but nothing great. It doesn’t have one element to make it standout in any way. It gets much better as it warms but I’m glad I got this on sale at Juilo’s Liquors in Westborogh, MA, for a good price. Ok, but I will not buy again. Shared with LiteWait.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2011
at 17:13
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
0.65l bottle. Pours a dark dark brown body with a tanned quickly fading side-claiming head. Nose is sweet roasted malts, vanilla, wood, roasted coffee and chocolate. Full-bodied and low carbonation. Could easily cut this brew in half with a knife. This is one heck of a sipper, with nice flavors of roasted malts, vanilla, coffee and dark chocolate balanced with a good amount of hops. Is there some hints of spices in here also perhaps? Slightly bitter and hints of alcohol in the aftertaste. I don't believe Santa is allowed to operate his reindeers after emptying this bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2011
at 23:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from 2008. Black with small dark brown head. Flavour is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, bitter, notes of alcohol and plenty of hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2011
at 11:43