Santa's Little Helper
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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Jeremy, 2008 vintage. This has held up extremely well. Pours black and flat. Malty, smoky, sweet. A bit dry at the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2019
at 05:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
24.12.2018, 0,65l bottle (few years old) @ home: Big light brown fizzy-creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish boozy, dark sugar, dark malts, salty licorice, alcohol, tar, bark, minerals, raisins, toast, roasted grain, hints of espresso. Taste is slightly sweet boozy, dark sugar, salty licorice powder, bark, alcohol, toast, tar, soil, harsh hops, fruit stones, raisins, burnt coffee. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly harsh boozy mouthfeel, fizzy carbonation. Fair enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2018
at 16:28
7/10
0,75 litre Bottle from Tavour. Black with little brown head. Roasted malts, coffee, some cocoa aroma, bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2018
at 08:05
9/10
Backlog
Tried
on 01 Sep 2018
at 15:47
9/10
Backlog
Tried
on 01 Sep 2018
at 15:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
19th December 2017. Ordered as part of a Flight in Crush & Brew, Temecula. Really pleased to see this, another beer I have wanted to try it for some time (it shared stage with Alesmith's Horny Devil, Lost Abbey's Lost & Found and a beer from Ritual called Hellion). Black bodied, tanned head. Chocolate esters within the malty aroma, taste also dominated by the roasted malts and again dark chocolate was the main player. Liked it.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2017
at 17:53
8/10
Tried
on 19 Dec 2017
at 14:38
8/10
Day 3 of 12 days of tavour. Thick as hell, but too early to try this dark dark dark chocolate pour but it'll settle in. Like 70% cocoa choc.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2017
at 14:21
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sweet, decadent RIS, massive swaths of dark chocolate, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, and anise percolating over a surprisingly firm hop bill, leading to a dry, roasty finish. Pours a viscous black with a thick brown head and good lacing. Nose is straight mocha. Thick texture holds a manageable but present boozy warmth. Nice beer.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2017
at 13:06
7/10
Tried
on 21 Oct 2017
at 00:11