Kessel Run
Emperor's Brewery in Langley Mill, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.71
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A peanut butter/jelly Porter. Redolent of sepia-tinged childhood, playing army with your mates on those endless summer days when you were 9....back home in under 12 parsecs for butties and pop....
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Canned 330ml. -at Goblet Zagreb, shared with hrabren. Black coloured, small to medium sized brownish head that went away fast, dry peanut butter in the nose. Roasted malt, peanut butter, ashy and touch of blueberry/blackberry syrup with warming alcohol in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2023
at 22:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
0.33 l bottle shared with Ogi at Goblet Beer Store, Zagreb. Black, oily, minimal head. Aroma is dried blackberry, charred wood, ash. Roasty and burnt aroma. Flavour is heavy coffee, chocolate and black fruit, also burnt, quite burnt. Heavy, tough, rough, cough (syrup). Burnt hazelnut. Alcohol through. Chocolate with red fruit candy bits. Smooth, lasting sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2023
at 18:13
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Can 330ml (Drikbeer) Opaque colour, tiny beige head. Odd ashy sweet peanut aroma. Full-bodied. Odd peanut butter, ash, alcohol, raspberry, vanilla flavour. Odd ... same time awful and drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Dec 2023
at 20:19
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Dec 2023
at 19:44
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2023, Saturday. Almost black beer with a beige lacing. Aroma and Taste of berries, strong dark malt, red fruits, sugar.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2023
at 09:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Creamy lightbrown good fully lasting head. Black colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. MOderate bitter flavor. Strong peanut butter notes. Long moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2023
at 13:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Imperial porter flavoured with cocoa, by this Star Wars-themed English brewery – the ‘Kessel run’ is a well-known concept among Star Wars fans. At BCBF. Yellowish beige, open, dense ring of foam on a pitch black beer – as black as Darth Vader’s helmet. Aroma of dry caramel, almond, gravy, strawberry cake, molten dark chocolate, Chantilly, panna cotta or even marshmallows. Sweet onset, weird aspect of strawberry-flavoured gum, touch umami (beef stock, oyster mushrooms), soft carb with full oily body; very caramelly, toffeeish, peanutty core with dark chocolatey edges, retronasal ‘fake’ strawberry, marshmallows and marzipan, no discernible hop bitterness worth mentioning, warming rum-like alcohol. Thick, fluffy, sweet dark maltiness lingers; not sure where this odd strawberry aspect comes from but this is in any case a tad too sweet for me.
Tried
on 16 Nov 2023
at 15:30
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Pours black, small tanned head. Scent is burnt, PB, chemical, red fruits, generic. Off-putting if anything . over the top. Taste is full, chemical, relatively bitter, PB, jelly, but in the most intrusive way possible. not pleasant.
Tried
on 14 Nov 2023
at 18:22
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
11/XI/23 - on tap @ Billies Craft Beer Festival (Antwerp), Day 2 - part 1, BB: n/a (2023-978) Thanks to Sebletitje, ElManana, 77ships, Eve and others for sharing today’s beers!
Little cloudy dark purple brown beer, no head. Aroma: very fruity, lots of blueberry, peanut powder, fruity impression, sourish maybe? MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sourish start, fruity notes, lots of alcohol, bitter, dry, soft roast, meh. Aftertaste: very dry, sourish, blueberries, spicy, sour, weird, sugary touch, soft roast. Not a big fan.
Little cloudy dark purple brown beer, no head. Aroma: very fruity, lots of blueberry, peanut powder, fruity impression, sourish maybe? MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sourish start, fruity notes, lots of alcohol, bitter, dry, soft roast, meh. Aftertaste: very dry, sourish, blueberries, spicy, sour, weird, sugary touch, soft roast. Not a big fan.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2023
at 15:35
5.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Nussiger Beginn, trocken. Etwas röstig, trocken, Nuancen von Pflaumen, langer Abgang. Nicht mein Fall. 11/7/8/7//7
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2023
at 15:20