Porter / Smoked Porter
Beerdevelopment Viven in Sijsele, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijPorter - Smoked Regular
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Score
7.29
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Viven Smoked Porter is a fairly bitter porter beer, with a very smokey flavour. Accents of coffee and dark chocolate make for a powerful aroma in your glass.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Keg at De Wildeman, 23rd October 14. Smooth smokey porter, great silky mouth feel. Very nice.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2014
at 09:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Pours black with a thick tan head. Very smoky on the nose and on the palate, with a bitter aftertaste
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2014
at 14:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours blacck with a brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, cocoa, dark chocolate, light wood notes. Flavor is malts, chocolate, wood, light peat, mild smoke notes. Medium to full body, average to high carbonation, dry light bitter finish. 051014
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2014
at 04:37
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Opaque black beer with a thick, foamy beige head. Rich, chocolate malt aroma with a hint of nuttiness.Flavour follows suit and is hearty and rich but with a sharp, tangy fruit edge which only adds to it. You get the hops more as you get through the beer. It really has a bit of everything.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2014
at 15:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Robust porter and, like their Imperial IPA, launched in 2009; Viven had consisted of rather unobtrusive, cliché beers up till then, but with these two, they suddenly drew a lot of - deserved - attention. Yellowish, thin, moussy head, very dark wine-red colour, almost black, clear. Aroma of smoked bacon, dates, olives, balsamic vinegar, coffee grounds, Worcestershire sauce, stewed beef, charcoal, candied plums. Rich malty taste, caramel, nutty, smoked and roasted bitterness, dry, long and complex, bitter ending further supported by a citrussy, American hoppiness. Wonderful, I wish there were more beers like this available from Belgian brewers.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2014
at 08:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
0,33L bottle, BB 08.01.16. Pours dark brown-black with tan head. The head stays. Aroma is roast, fruits, creamy, some smoke. Flavor is bitter & sweet, intense roast, fruits, licorice, smoke, ash. Palate is creamy. Finish is creamy roast bitter with some sweet notes. Overall: very nice brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2014
at 12:26
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.33l bottle. Pitch black body, light brown head. Aroma of smoke, leather, coffee and earth. Taste of smoke, coffee, reisins and floral hops. Very nice smoked beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2014
at 10:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Flaska från bier-deluxe. En stabil strong porter från Viven som sannerligen inte gör speciellt belgisk öl. Alla typiska portersmaker, värmande alkohol, fruktig, kaffe, mörkt rågbröd, soja, torv, relativt söt, lätt beska. Riktigt god.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2014
at 14:07
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Det Bette Ølhus. Black with a big and lasting brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, lots of smoked meat and hard roasted malt. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. 060814
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2014
at 12:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from bier-deluxe.de. Almost black color with huge beige head. Roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate in aroma. Taste, roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate, ash, wood. Coffee bitter finish. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2014
at 10:22