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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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. It pours a dark brown body, unclear, and topped by a creamy, minimal sized light beige head. Rather smoked aroma, ham and some old bonfire. Some cocoa and forest. Creamy, soft mouthfeel and semi-dry. Some alcohol warmth too. Ham, bonfire hints and cocoa in the flavor, nice bitterness too. Lasting roasted and bitter finish. Some yeasty hints. Certainly not a beer I’d expect from Belgium, but it’s pleasant indeed. 130516
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2013
at 12:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 330ml @ Geokkjer
Pours black with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of roasted matl, chocolate, coffee, smoke and floral. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of roasted matl, chocolate, coffee, smoke and floral. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2013
at 12:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle from the rare beer of the month club caged and corked and poured into a snifter. Pours opaque black with dark brown highlights, medium light brown head which dissapates fairly quickly. Light smoke aroma, medium body, good thin lacing, and medium/low carbonation. Taste is roasty, some milk chocolate, salty, and some smoke (meat). Good, but not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2013
at 17:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On draft at Max’s 9th Annual Belgian Fest. Pours a watery, mostly opaque deep brown with some cloudy white head. Nose is big and smokey, bacon, smoked salmon, wet wood, brown sugar. Flavor is lightly sweet, brown sugar, big smoke, smokey BBQ sauce, bacon, mushrooms, smoked salmon. Full, smokey finish. Decent. Tons of umami character
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2013
at 08:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from BeerHive, Edinburgh [090213]
Black, big tan head dissipates to thin layer, good lacing.
Aroma of roasted malts, soft burnt toast, espresso, soft smoke.
Taste of roasted malts, espresso roast, soft mellow burnt toast, sweet dark rich malts, good mellow smoke.
Palate is medium carb, medium to full body, creamy rich malts, sweet dark malts counterbalance the burnt toast and smoke, very smooth texture. Finish as main flavour, good linger of mouthcoating rich dark malts with some soft burnt roast and chocolate
Overall - Very good porter, the burnt roast isn’t harsh here and the smoke is nice and mellow, good rich malts.
Black, big tan head dissipates to thin layer, good lacing.
Aroma of roasted malts, soft burnt toast, espresso, soft smoke.
Taste of roasted malts, espresso roast, soft mellow burnt toast, sweet dark rich malts, good mellow smoke.
Palate is medium carb, medium to full body, creamy rich malts, sweet dark malts counterbalance the burnt toast and smoke, very smooth texture. Finish as main flavour, good linger of mouthcoating rich dark malts with some soft burnt roast and chocolate
Overall - Very good porter, the burnt roast isn’t harsh here and the smoke is nice and mellow, good rich malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2013
at 08:46
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Cambrinus, Brugge - 02/12/12. Mid black with a forthy tan head that clears to the edge and leaves a small film after a few minutes. Nose is roast malt, liqourice, molasses, touch of chocolate. Taste comprises roast malt, chocolate, touch of coffee, leather, some liqourice. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation - a little overcooked for my liking, roasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2012
at 13:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Draught at Delirium Tap Bar, Brussels, 19 Oct 2012) Black colour with dense, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with black coffee, dark bread and a touch of smoke. Roasted, malty taste with notes of black coffee, cacao, dark rye bread, dark fruit and a mild coffee bitterness. More than medium body, with a light sweetness. Well balanced and tasty. Nice one.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Dec 2012
at 11:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Almost black with a large, fluffy tan head. Aroma and taste of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and some smoke. Soft and easy to drink. Better than expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2012
at 11:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Delirium Hoppy Loft, Brussels. Pours black with a creamy head. Nose is roast, fruit and chocolate. Bitter roasted flavor with notes of coffee, ashes and smoke. Smooth and dry. Very well made.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2012
at 07:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Blackish beer with a brown head. Smoke and caramel aroma with light toffee. Caramel and light toffee flavor with backing smoke. Medium bodied. Caramel and light roast lingers with light toffee and backing smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2012
at 10:58