6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

440ml can - Pours a dark brown colour with a small frothy beige head. Aroma is roasted malts and caramel with some woody notes. A light sweet roasted taste, sweet roasted malts, popcorn, caramel, chocolate and dark fruit flavours with hint of smoke in a lightly drying roasted finish.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Slightly reddish brown/black pour with a small tan head. Aromas and taste of coffee, cocoa, roasted malt, cream, milk and some toffee. Slightly burned aftertaste, but in a good way.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Brownish black with a tan head. Aroma of roast coffee malt. Flavour is toffee and licorice, coffee on a bitter made background, milky finish.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft, taster. @Mash Beer Festival 2023, Barcelona (Spain) 27/10/2023 [#6.830 Global - #158 Ireland - #28 Whiplash] Pours deep brown with a lasting tan head. Aroma: espresso coffee, roasted malts, toffee and liquorice. Taste: lot of toffee, burnt espresso and roasted nuts. Interesting dry roasted palate. Next one please!

7.8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Tap at Koht. Thin body, med-high carbonation. Very dry, high bitterness, low sweetness. Lots of deep roasted, coffeeish, slightly acrid and woody tanninish flavour. Overall pretty interesting, tasty, good.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught@TCBW2023. Hazy deep brown colour with a mediumsized off-white foamy head. Aroma is roasted malts, some toffee, mild liquorice and some toasted tones. Flavour is toasted, toffeeish, mild sweet malts with some slight liquorice and dried fruity tones.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Porter by this Dublin-based craft brewery, brewed using the old decoction method; from tap at Dok’s taproom in Hal 16, Ghent. Pale greyish white, open, thin but well-retaining ring of mousse on a dark chestnut brown beer with wine red glow. Aroma of hard caramel, strong espresso and coffee grounds, toasted pecan nuts, dried fig, black tea, toast, smoked apple peel note. Sweetish, clean onset, dried fig and dried apple peel but low in esters, rounded with softish carb; smooth oily mouthfeel, caramelly-malty and a bit walnutty, sweetish but quickly shifting to roasted, coffee-like, mouth-filling bitterness. Some leafy, bit herbal hop bitterness joins in to support the caramelly and roasted-nutty effects as well as that coffee-like roastiness. Retronasal coffee comes up after swallowing. Clean, sleek brown porter, with enough roasted bitterness to pass for a dry stout as well (but this is a useless discussion). Highly drinkable – perhaps just a tad too clean for “19th style English porter” as is apparently claimed by the brewer?

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

A small taste on tap @ TCBW 2023. Pours dark brown with a low head. Aroma is sweet roasted malts. Flavor is sweet roasted malts with some hops. Quite sweet, not quite my thing.

6

Dry, roast, barley, grainy, watery

7

Kohv röst linnased tuhane. Ok.