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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8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Christmas stout, black with mahogany edges, under a deep beige, medium thick, moussy head. Quite powerful aroma of cured meat and smoked bacon, espresso, bitter chocolate, meat broth, candied figs, banana, vanilla, dry madera wine, grandmother’s sticky candi syrup I still associate with pancakes, black pepper, tobacco, candi sugar, wet leather, chocolate cake, mocha ice cream, blueberries, soy sauce. Refinedly sweet onset, candi syrup accent, candied fruits, pointy and tangy, soft carbo, smooth, oily and thick mouthfeel as usual for the style, yeasty and meaty, wheaty sourish touch and a certain hint of saltiness like liquorice candy, after which thick layers of maltiness unfold, nutty, bitterly chocolatey and roasted, especially in the finish where a thick coffee-like bitterness is confronted with a peppery, spicy, pungent hop bitterness and bourbon-like, warming alcohol; the liquorice-like ’saltiness’ lingers a bit too deep in the background. In all, nothing surprising in the context of its particular style, but - as usual from this brewery - very well crafted and satisfying. Ideal sipper for a cold winter afternoon.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2015
at 10:12
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
26-12-2014, verjaardagsbiertje. schenkt zwart met volle fijne schuimige bruine kraag. Aroma is prima ondanks het feit dat ik wat verkouden aan het worden ben, volmoutig, chocolade en alcohol, prima !. Smaken zijn redelijk zoet, matig/redelijk bitter (mij iets aan de te bittere kant voor zo’n bier), sterke smaken, stevig gemout (geroosterde en gebrande mouten), volle chocolade, mocca, volle body, romig van textuur in de mond en blijft na een tijdje gewoon van de zoetigheid aan je lippen plakken. koffie zorgt voor de droge tonen in de mond. In de afdronk komen de koffie droogte en het bittertje ook weer terug. Mooi en goed bier, maar niet zo super als ik gehoopt had (komt door de iets te bittere smaken). --- Beer merged from original tick of Santas Little Helper on 18 May 2018 at 09:15 - Score: 8
Tried
on 27 Dec 2014
at 07:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Botella de 65 cl en el momento en cimmeria el 12-12-2014. color negro con espuma oscura persistente. Recuerdas en aromas y sabores a la oil viscosity aunque algo mas herbáceos y especiados. Cuerpo medio con 20 vol que se notan en todo momento, algo de gas. Bastante buena.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2014
at 16:58
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle split on the patio of the hotel, San Diego, thanks to GT2 for this one 14/11/14. Black with a big dirty tan head that retains well - a good looker! Nose is spice, bitter roast, chocolate, leather, liqourice, light charr. Taste comprises chocolate maltesers, hint of plastic, light spice, molasses, dark fruit rinds. Medium + body, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light hop presence in the background. Ok impy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2014
at 14:16